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DaTroof posted:i'd feel like an rear end in a top hat showing someone my npm package that imports a single ansi color. wtf quote:Related projects why show one when you can show them all
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rotor posted:cobra farms but for lovely single-liner js packages im gonna need to hear more about this analogy
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rotor posted:what I mean is that the 'ansi-red' package and left-pad and all the others are predictable outcomes of someone whose career is incentivized to have popular open source projects i don't get the cobra farms reference but i don't think i disagree with you either if "npm package with a zillion downloads" looks good on a resume to anyone at all, there are people who will optimize for it
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its shorthand for "perverse incentives" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive#The_original_cobra_effect quote:The term cobra effect was coined by economist Horst Siebert based on an anecdote of a (possibly ahistorical) occurrence in India during British rule.[2][3][4] The British government, concerned about the number of venomous cobras in Delhi, offered a bounty for every dead cobra. Initially, this was a successful strategy; large numbers of snakes were killed for the reward. Eventually, however, enterprising people began to breed cobras for the income. When the government became aware of this, the reward program was scrapped. When cobra breeders set their now-worthless snakes free, the wild cobra population further increased.[5]
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rotor posted:its shorthand for "perverse incentives" ty, makes total sense now
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thanks! i cottoned on to the meaning but really wanted the story behind it. did not disappoint
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OH NO! FERAL HOGSquote:Experiencing an issue with feral pigs, the U.S. Army post of Fort Benning in Georgia offered hunters a $40-bounty for every pigtail turned in. Predictably, however, people began to buy pigtails from butchers and slaughterhouses at wholesale prices then resold the tails to the Army at the higher bounty price.[4][better source needed]
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i think there was a similar issue with a few gun buyback programs, where people got paid for bringing guns made of wood and duct tape
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DaTroof posted:i think there was a similar issue with a few gun buyback programs, where people got paid for bringing guns made of wood and duct tape It happens all the time. Home made shotguns/destructive devices will kill someone same as any other. In gun buybacks that don't mandate semi-automatic, the home made ones are usually more dangerous than the unmaintained, rusted, ancient junk. Some people have done it as a prank or to make a point about how stupid gun buybacks are. There isn't an industry or a large number of people doing this - there are multiple ways you'd run afoul of the NFA (lack of serial, inadvertently making a destructive device, etc etc etc).
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Nomnom Cookie posted:lib directories haven't been a best practice since 2004 at the latest I hate it when I clone a repo and it builds straight away!
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~Coxy posted:I hate it when I clone a repo and it builds straight away! same, what’s the point of having a DevOps team with practices like that
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I didnt see this image before but yeah, exactly: cobra farms for single-line js libs to pump up his numbers right next to a "support me" button
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Zamujasa posted:if you really want a hearty lol there's always log-symbols if (isUnicodeSupported()) { useUnicode(); } else { useDifferentUnicode(); }
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Bonfire Lit posted:if (isUnicodeSupported()) { useUnicode(); } else { useDifferentUnicode(); } otoh the unicode checking dependency is pretty rough (this is the entirety) code:
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Bonfire Lit posted:if (isUnicodeSupported()) { useUnicode(); } else { useDifferentUnicode(); } the forums converted it to html entities, it appears as regular text in the code proper. that said i do wonder if the "non-unicode" ones actually work on not-unicode consoles considering that the check and cross marks aren't plain low ascii and presumably the file's encoding is utf8 since it's for console output
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Zamujasa posted:the forums converted it to html entities, it appears as regular text in the code proper. that said i do wonder if the "non-unicode" ones actually work on not-unicode consoles considering that the check and cross marks aren't plain low ascii and presumably the file's encoding is utf8 since it's for console output it is pretty confused phrasing, in that windows nt cmd.exe (it and the linux console being the only environments actually singled out) has had unicode support since 1993 afaik. what it does *not* have is unicode *emoji* support.
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Don't be too harsh on them, it's tough to get the naming right across an entire library.
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rotor posted:what I mean is that the 'ansi-red' package and left-pad and all the others are predictable outcomes of someone whose career is incentivized to have popular open source projects this made me scurry over to the Wikipedia article for Goodhart’s Law, which has a bangin’ list of articles related to unintended consequences:
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DaTroof posted:i try not to front on people for poo poo they give away for free, but that guy's contributions are an utter embarrassment He is the worst programmer that I'm aware of. It would be a net gain if all of his packages were scrapped from npm.
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Doom Mathematic posted:
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I like that the only PR to that ansi-red repo is an update to the LICENSE file so the PR maker can "use this without legal risk" and it's just been sitting there ignored for 3 years
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Fortaleza posted:I like that the only PR to that ansi-red repo is an update to the LICENSE file so the PR maker can "use this without legal risk" and it's just been sitting there ignored for 3 years i like that despite only being three lines long, it still has a dependency
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rotor posted:i like that despite only being three lines long, it still has a dependency “the buck stops somewhere else”ism, an explosion of dependencies being taken as normal, and resume-driven development / “look at how many stars I have on github” driven development, too many different transpilers, a language gradually changing and causing even more fragmentation of “stylistic best practices”, plus major frameworks coming through and altering patterns of development: the story of why the node ecosystem sucks
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OSS DRAMA https://pelock.medium.com/a-story-about-donations-to-open-source-project-asmjit-and-petr-kobalicek-30e8e907417 I PAID YOU 125 EUROS OVER SIX YEARS AS SPONSORED DONATIONS!! HOW DARE YOU TAKE DOWN THE NOTES ABOUT THAT WHEN I WAS USING IT AS AD SPACE? The dude has been emailing corporate sponsors of the OSS maintainer to link to that blog post full of complaints.
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MononcQc posted:OSS DRAMA jesus what a little bitch
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MononcQc posted:OSS DRAMA it seems the drama began at least back in 2016 because dude was a whiny abusive drama babby over some trivial thing which broke his code on ancient compilers, and that's when the asmjit guy chose to stop accepting his donations lol https://github.com/asmjit/asmjit/issues/231 https://github.com/asmjit/asmjit/issues/131
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once again proving that medium is neither rare nor well done
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MononcQc posted:OSS DRAMA oh my god i loving hate this writing style so much im angry about writing
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Buck Turgidson posted:jesus what a little bitch
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Wild EEPROM posted:once again proving that medium is neither rare nor well done lol
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texas.jpg
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Remember the thread title, "the distance between Wernher von Braun and a javascript developer" ? Well it turns out a lot of Javascript developers do believe it would be an excellent thing if the distance were closer to zero, and are really mad that a project should take any stance against or for an invasion: https://github.com/facebook/react/issues
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America: bug closed, wontfix
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quote:As a Chinese, I support Ukraine, Russia, eu! Someone is confused
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i'm sure github has a problem with bots like twitter does to be fair, though not as substantial
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MononcQc posted:Remember the thread title, "the distance between Wernher von Braun and a javascript developer" ? lol
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where was a stance taken? was this a response to something facebook did?
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post hole digger posted:where was a stance taken? was this a response to something facebook did? there's a humanitarian aid for ukraine donation link at the top of reactjs dot org
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Please please someone go on there and raise a bug just called "TAIWAN #1"
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