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I Peeked into My Node_Modules Directory and You Won’t Believe What Happened Next

13 points by martindale 10y ago

Piskvorrr 10y ago
"Imagine (...) if the car you drove to work had 291 parts." I'm willing to bet a current car has an order of magnitude more - this is not your great-grandfather's Model T. Moreover, I am worried: only a handful of those parts are user-serviceable, not to mention those parts that are but a blackbox for proprietary firmware. The situation is quite similar here.
- netule 10y ago
  The carburetor in your grandfather's car had close to that many parts, let alone the rest of the car.
- throwanem 10y ago
  I'm willing to bet no more than one in five of the commenters in this thread, when the dust eventually settles and the reply links disappear, will have managed to get the joke.
  - Piskvorrr 10y ago
    Okay, that was all a joke? Ha ha, then. And get off my lawn!
kennethkl 10y ago
A Twitter API call without authentication?! I call BS
- api 10y ago
  My guess would be that like-tweet.js is a trash file left over in the repo from someone's testing. Still this post does illustrate the alarming nature of software dependency hell and how who-knows-what sort of code might easily be slipped into repositories these days.
  - throwanem 10y ago
    Or, you know, it's not actually there at all because this is absurdist satire and not meant to be taken literally.
    - api 10y ago
      I can't tell satire anymore. It's hard to come up with any more absurd than the real world.
56k 10y ago
Repost.
tstrimple 10y ago
Before anyone freaks out and posts a comment after reading the Express and Yummy issue, please keep reading the article.
- revicon 10y ago
  I did read the rest of it and still didn't get the punchline.
  - throwanem 10y ago
    It's total bullshit of a kind that's funny to Node devs tired of hearing about how their stack is terrible from people who like to deride things without really knowing very much about them.
ppetty 10y ago
Mehh, I’m glad this got dupe’d. This first time I read the article I found it interesting & the subject extremely valid. That said, the article would be better if it alluded to real examples. The fictional ones are funny & they did get me to investigate … but I can where some creators or maintainers would be pissed at the notion they did include some of the cruft reported. There should be some mention of this or a link to each scrutized project’s repo.

13 points by martindale 10y ago

"Imagine (...) if the car you drove to work had 291 parts." I'm willing to bet a current car has an order of magnitude more - this is not your great-grandfather's Model T. Moreover, I am worried: only a handful of those parts are user-serviceable, not to mention those parts that are but a blackbox for proprietary firmware. The situation is quite similar here.

netule 10y ago
The carburetor in your grandfather's car had close to that many parts, let alone the rest of the car.
throwanem 10y ago
I'm willing to bet no more than one in five of the commenters in this thread, when the dust eventually settles and the reply links disappear, will have managed to get the joke.
- Piskvorrr 10y ago
  Okay, that was all a joke? Ha ha, then. And get off my lawn!

kennethkl 10y ago

A Twitter API call without authentication?! I call BS

api 10y ago
My guess would be that like-tweet.js is a trash file left over in the repo from someone's testing. Still this post does illustrate the alarming nature of software dependency hell and how who-knows-what sort of code might easily be slipped into repositories these days.
- throwanem 10y ago
  Or, you know, it's not actually there at all because this is absurdist satire and not meant to be taken literally.
  - api 10y ago
    I can't tell satire anymore. It's hard to come up with any more absurd than the real world.

56k 10y ago

Repost.

tstrimple 10y ago

Before anyone freaks out and posts a comment after reading the Express and Yummy issue, please keep reading the article.

revicon 10y ago
I did read the rest of it and still didn't get the punchline.
- throwanem 10y ago
  It's total bullshit of a kind that's funny to Node devs tired of hearing about how their stack is terrible from people who like to deride things without really knowing very much about them.

ppetty 10y ago

Mehh, I’m glad this got dupe’d. This first time I read the article I found it interesting & the subject extremely valid. That said, the article would be better if it alluded to real examples. The fictional ones are funny & they did get me to investigate … but I can where some creators or maintainers would be pissed at the notion they did include some of the cruft reported. There should be some mention of this or a link to each scrutized project’s repo.