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I Peeked into My Node_Modules Directory
- Tomte 7y agoFascinating to see all those attempts to count the number of dependencies (including calling the man page), but why include this in the post?
- BossingAround 7y agoIt's a satire... The whole post is a satire. Just read on, it gets more and more ridiculous. Of course it's all made up.
- Tomte 7y agoAh, thanks. I guess I've read so much about the JavaScript ecosystem that I didn't doubt it.
- codesections 7y agoArticle from 2016
- m4r35n357 7y agoYeah, you want to watch out for those "rouge" developers!
- isoprophlex 7y agoLook i enjoy pissing on npm packages just as much as the next brogramming hipster but... 'imagine if the car you drove to work had more than 291 parts' Well... Imagine it has less than that number of parts! Or imagine an apple containing less than that many distinct chemical substances! Not the best example...
- robinduckett 7y agoYeah I read this and raised an eyebrow. Imagine having this many bones in your body >.>
- nkrisc 7y agoI think the fact that both of these are terrible examples is part of the joke. They have so little to do with making the point the author wants to make (satirically) that they're almost a non sequitur.
- isoprophlex 7y agoHa! Thanks ... I'm so dense I didn't get that, I actually believed there's a guy fiery bitmap in all those packages This is some quality satire, haha
- slavik81 7y agoWell, there wasn't when the article was written, but... https://github.com/babel/babel/blob/f36d07d30334f86412a9d2771880cb566a82a9b6/packages/babel-core/src/api/node.js https://github.com/babel/babel/blob/f36d07d30334f86412a9d277... (it was removed before the next release)
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- whalesalad 7y agoThe capitalization treatment in the title of the post (not just here in HN) is like nails on a chalkboard.
- bassman9000 7y agoGlimmer brings in the entirety of Encyclopedia Brittanica, just to display the definition for the word “glimmer” in its help menu. Nice.
- Tajnymag 7y agoAn important note for many: this article is a satire, meant as a joke making fun of all the other similar posts
- rafaelvasco 7y agoEven if it is a satire, there would be no satire in the first place if it weren't at least partially true.
- bouke 7y agoAuthor is complaining about Ember having "glimmer" as a dependency and not knowing what it does, however the author is searching github/google for the term "glitter".