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One of the biggest selling points during the rise of dynamic languages was that they lacked complex, fragile build processes. Fast-forward 15 years and the most popular dynamic language has build tooling more complex and fragile than many static languages. Time is a flat circle.
btw I wrote this while waiting *six minutes* for the dev dependencies to install for a very small library that I use
he died as he lived, waiting for `npm install`
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I wrote a bunch of horribly awkward code, then deleted it and replaced it with eight lines of SQL (max width 64 chars). Greetings from 1974.
Update: six lines!
"The relational view (or model) of data described in Section 1 appears to be superior in several respects to the [document database model, roughly -GRB] presently in vogue for [databases that merely store data]."

-- Codd in 1970, but could've been 2018. seas.upenn.edu/~zives/03f/cis…
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An NPM package with 2,000,000 weekly downloads had malicious code injected into it. No one knows what the malicious code does yet. github.com/dominictarr/ev…
There are basically two camps in that thread.

1) This is the original maintainer's fault for transferring ownership to someone they didn't know and trust.
2) Ownership transfer was fine; it's your job to vet all of the code you run.
Option 2 (vet all dependencies) is obviously impossible. Last I looked, a new create-react-app had around a thousand dependencies, all moving fast and breaking things.
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An npm module named husky destructively added pre- and post-commit hooks to my dotfiles repo (literally ~/.git!). Or maybe some other module told it to do that. I never asked for that. I don't understand why the JavaScript tool ecosystem is like this!
please don't "distrupt" my dotfiles, tech industry
Exciting update: it destructively installed 18 different git hooks.
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Obama & his fans were so insufferable during that 1st term because he would do something petty & stupid and dumb in an obvious way & then it would be denied.

Remember the 'bow' to King Fahd that wasn't a bow?
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