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by seldo 10y ago
It is possible to disable install hooks at install time by running npm install with --ignore-scripts. You can also make this the default, with npm config set ignore-scripts true (and then --ignore-scripts false at install time if you wish t
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by seldo 10y ago
We believe npm's scale is a direct result of having the lowest ceremony to publish a package. Turning the dial in the direction we did has pros and cons.
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by seldo 10y ago
I do work at npm, and you're right, that's why we do it. The same Docker-based installer (from a company called Replicated) installs on all our customers' many operating systems, so it was easiest to do the same thing to crea
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by seldo 11y ago
The package author decided to unpublish the package. A new author has now stepped in and re-published the package (yay open source!) and deps are fixed.
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by seldo 11y ago
Many thanks to ChALkeR for responsibly disclosing this to npm and giving us time to notify people and clean up as much as possible. We were very busy, and ChALkeR was incredibly patient with us :-) In response to this disclosure, we have se
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by seldo 11y ago
Not bad, please add mobile view to the login page as well :-)
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by seldo 11y ago
npm, Inc - Oakland, CA - Onsite - Full time npm is the package manager for JavaScript. We are hiring a lot of engineers, but the position we really need right now is a designer: https://www.npmjs.com/jobs/#ux-ui-designe
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by seldo 11y ago
We're glad private repos work for you :-) However, the overwhelming feedback from our users has been that git dependencies are a gigantic pain in the neck, and this has been our own personal experience as users of npm. Much like npm it
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by seldo 12y ago
npm, Inc - Oakland, CA (remote ok, H1B ok) www engineer, registry engineer, support tech, cli engineer If you program in JavaScript, or use a frontend framework like Ember or Angular, you have probably used "npm install" to get ne
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by seldo 12y ago
Over what period does this law apply? If you are a multinational and you bring workers over for a two-week training course, do you have to give them a raise for those two weeks?
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Business Insider on GamerGate(businessinsider.com)
3 points by seldo 12y ago|0 comments
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by seldo 12y ago
It's a pretty interesting case study of interface design that because DO's website looks so much nicer, their servers feel like a good deal, while Atlantic.net's old-fashioned branding makes it just feel fly by night, even th
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by seldo 12y ago
We are working on including more accurate and detailed health metrics into the upcoming re-launch of the npm site. We're definitely going to be including stuff like GitHub stars (but this disadvantages non-GitHub projects), downloads,
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by seldo 12y ago
Thanks! To your suggestions: 1. I tried to emphasize how important it is to keep the candidate relaxed and comfortable. Your suggestions are good, though we are too small and resource constrained to spend several weeks on interviews; each c
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by seldo 12y ago
See also from a few years ago: http://seldo.com/weblog/2011/08/11/orm_is_an_antipattern I agree with basically everything in this post, obviously :-)
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by seldo 12y ago
Command line tools developer, npm, Oakland, CA: http://www.npmjs.com/jobs/ (REMOTE) npm is the most popular package manager for JavaScript and we're growing fast. We need to make our eponymous command-line client
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by seldo 12y ago
npm by default uses HTTPS, and has for more than 3 years. It's a little confusing because the loglines all say "http" in green, but if you actually look at the URLs being downloaded they are all to https://registry
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by seldo 12y ago
Front-end developer, npm, Oakland, CA: https://npmjs.org We are the most popular package manager for Node.js and we're completely rebuilding and redesigning our website. We want somebody who cares a lot about CSS and HTML t
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Baishampayan Ghose open sources his genetic data(github.com)
2 points by seldo 12y ago|1 comments
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by seldo 12y ago
Yes, we had another 20 minutes of downtime 4 hours later, caused by our CDN accidentally re-instating their broken datacenter. The second outage is documented here: http://status.npmjs.org/incidents/jc65gc8tzk5v
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by seldo 12y ago
I am pretty sure I can think of simpler ways to issue a fee-free license to a patent.
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by seldo 12y ago
They have definitely left a lot of wiggle room and you'd be crazy to build stuff based on their patents without a licensing agreement, but I think this signals that they are very open to licensing their technology, and are not trying t
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by seldo 12y ago
99.9% of requests to npm over the last 3 months have been hitting things other than couch. Binaries are being served directly from disk by nginx, and 99% of JSON GETs are served from our CDN's cache. Couch is still the source of truth,
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by seldo 12y ago
Our sincere apologies for tonight's downtime. We're back up now after 30 incredibly frustrating minutes, but we're making changes to ensure this incident can't be repeated. The root cause was a network failure at our CDN
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by seldo 12y ago
It is possible for it to be simultaneously true that men are more frequently victims of violent crime, perform worse in standardized tests, and earn less than women[1] and also that women are more frequently the victims of sexual assault[
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by seldo 12y ago
> As long as people care far more about the plight of women than the plight of men ... we're never going to achieve anything resembling equality. I'm unclear on your thesis here: is your position that the reason women are disad
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by seldo 12y ago
> I also thought it could be this particular company was fucked up, however talking to engineers from other companies revealed this phenomena is far from unique. While it's by no means unique, that doesn't mean it's not f
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by seldo 12y ago
> People claim that startups work you hard, I personally don’t see it. From people I’ve talked to, I’d say 50 hour weeks are average. That’s about what you see in corporate America these days. I think only in America would somebody say
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by seldo 12y ago
If you are doing large-scale CSV parsing or encoding in Node, you may also find these two packages useful: https://www.npmjs.org/package/binary-csv https://www.npmjs.org/package/csv-write-stream T
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by seldo 12y ago
The concept of a "primary" smartphone is a little strange to me. How common is it to have multiple active smartphones? (As opposed to, say, one for testing software, or an old one in the closet)

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