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    Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc Jan 24
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    The Stripe API now makes suggestions in response to misspellings!pic.twitter.com/152wU4LPqY

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      2. ᴅᴀᴠɪᴅ ᴘᴇʀᴇʟʟ  ✌‏ @david_perell Jan 24
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        Asking this as a curious outsider who knows very little about software. Why is this a recent innovation? Auto-correct seems like an obvious problem the software community should have solved years ago. Perhaps there's a lot of technical complexity here. What am I missing?

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      3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Jan 25
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        A true but perhaps unhelpful answer: it doesn’t exist in most APIs because no one implemented it. A perhaps more useful answer: broadly speaking, most APIs are bespoke software systems. This layer is built from ground up, rather than being built on a common, robust foundation.

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      2. Nick Schrock‏ @schrockn Jan 24
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        How about going full @phabricator and just assuming anything with an edit distance of 1 is the "British spelling" and pressing on? 😂😂😂pic.twitter.com/N4fZrRt4fJ

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      3. Kevin Lacker‏ @lacker Jan 25
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        Replying to @schrockn @patrickc @phabricator

        there was a rails plugin which, at runtime, would autocorrect misspelled methods

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      2. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg Jan 25
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        Next step: DWIM.

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      3. Des Traynor‏Verified account @destraynor Jan 25
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        Reminds me of the aptly named mod_speling in Apache

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      2. Mengxi Lu‏ @mengxilu Jan 24
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        Is it using this behind the scenes 😂https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck 

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      3. George V. Reilly‏ @georgevreilly Jan 29
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        This feature is implemented using Ruby's built-in DidYouMean::SpellChecker.https://github.com/ruby/did_you_mean …

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      1. shidoshi‏ @shidoshi Jan 24
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        Yeah, how was this a micro-ship? I thought it was pretty huge. Also, I'm totally not reading work slack/mail, because of micro-humans *ahem*.

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      1. Prof. Jeff Jarviss‏ @ProfJeffJarviss Jan 24
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        Did you mean “Mo money mo problems?”

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