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Posted by jeffld_DUPE1, around 20th May 2005:
 

Did anyone else notice?

Building Enterprise Web Apps on a Budget - How We Built Flickr

what are shitty coders? Is this some technical jargon that I'm not familiar with?

Scroll down to the bottom. It is one of the bullet points under Flickr API.
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 21st May 2005:
 
heh
suspect it's cal talking about making the api robust to idiots, in sense of not choking flickr the service?
Posted by cal_DUPE1, around 21st May 2005:
 
correct - it's a reference to a quote from stewart (my boss) in an oreilly article about flickr/apis