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Why We’re Removing Kik Messenger from Startup Timelines

• jdbernard 11y ago
  > Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if some NPM build crashed even at Kik’s own headquarters today Humorously, this did happen. From the medium post by kik[0]: I found out about this problem like a lot of you, when our builds started failing because we use the extremely helpful JSCS. Through a long chain of dependencies, JSCS relied on left-pad@0.0.3, which was removed by the author yesterday. Our team was confused at the time as well. [0]: https://medium.com/@mproberts/a-discussion-about-the-breaking-of-the-internet-3d4d2a83aa4d#.dybfpmjas https://medium.com/@mproberts/a-discussion-about-the-breakin...
  • civilian 11y ago
    That's a really good follow up article, thanks for posting it.
  • throwawa998833 11y ago
    Reading the article it seems like the Kik emails were a little poorly worded, but not extremely so. However, Azer's response is completely over the top. Clearly he has a take no prisoners attitude and scorched earth approach to things. Given that open source is also about collaboration, this response is kinda lame.
    • tapiwa 11y ago
      But Azer was right on the money. A request, by definition requires a binary response. A polite request, by definition, means that you can live (however badly) with either a Yay, or a nay. Kik's attitude (whilst claiming to be polite), was that anything other than a "Yay", would be met with lawyers. On this one, #IStandWithAzer.