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i'm kinda starting to regret open sourcing that python script i wrote to scrape whitepages.com for addresses of people whose last name ends with a z
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# ¿ May 27, 2022 03:19 |
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"i'm not in it for the money" - a former engineering director for capital one
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i took it as meaning the customer is a government entity and can't offer a bounty because that's not how government contracts work ofc that doesn't preclude the contractor from paying the bounty
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SYSV Fanfic posted:I really doubt that. It's been eight hours and I already forgot the guys name. but have you offered him a job in the past eight hours
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Zamujasa posted:perhaps people should use libraries with single ansi colors (1.1 million weekly downloads) i try not to front on people for poo poo they give away for free, but that guy's contributions are an utter embarrassment
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rotor posted:i feel like the pathological case of dependency management for node is really driven by Problem 3 aka using open source as a resume. this is definitely a pathological case. there's a middle ground imo. i have open source poo poo that i put on my resume, and one of my projects was a reason i got my current job, but poo poo, i'd feel like an rear end in a top hat showing someone my npm package that imports a single ansi color. wtf
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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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rotor posted:its shorthand for "perverse incentives" ty, makes total sense now
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# ¿ May 27, 2022 03:19 |
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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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