jeff 👨💻 to Programming@programming.devEnglish • 1 year agoWhat are some examples of xkcd 2347?xkcd.comexternal-linkmessage-square99fedilinkarrow-up1258arrow-down13file-text
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minus-square@epyon22@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish6•1 year agoI believe the nodejs fiasco is what prompted this comic?https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theregister.com/AMP/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/
minus-square@truthy@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglish10•1 year agoAMP-free url: https://www.theregister.com/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/
minus-squareBaldur NillinkfedilinkEnglish4•1 year agoAnother example is a large number of libraries using an external dependency to check if a number is odd.
minus-square@GissaMittJobb@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year agoI believe it was the OpenSSL-security scandal, iirc.
minus-square@demosthenes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoIt’s possible leftpad was an example Randall was thinking of, but the date of the comic is Aug 17, 2020, more than 4 years after leftpad. https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2347:_Dependency
I believe the nodejs fiasco is what prompted this comic?https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theregister.com/AMP/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/
AMP-free url: https://www.theregister.com/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/
Another example is a large number of libraries using an external dependency to check if a number is odd.
I believe it was the OpenSSL-security scandal, iirc.
It’s possible leftpad was an example Randall was thinking of, but the date of the comic is Aug 17, 2020, more than 4 years after leftpad.
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2347:_Dependency