todd hoff: Stupid Human ProgrammingTalk on software development.Can Game Theory be Used to Loosen Website API Limits- November 19, 2007 Can Game Theory be Used to Loosen Website API LimitsLet's say Twitter limits me to getting only 20 tweets at a time through their API. But I want more. I may even want to do something so radical as download everything. Of course Twitter can't let everyone do that. They would be swamped serving all this traffic and service would be denied. So Twitter does that rational thing and limits API access as a means of self protection. As does google, yahoo, and everyone else.But when I hit the limit I...http://radio.weblogs.com/0103955/categories/stupidHumanProgramming/2007/11/19.html#a252 |