jeff 👨💻 to [email protected]English • 2 years agoWhat are some examples of xkcd 2347?xkcd.comexternal-linkmessage-square109fedilinkarrow-up1341arrow-down13file-text
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish9•2 years agoI believe the nodejs fiasco is what prompted this comic?https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theregister.com/AMP/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish14•2 years agoAMP-free url: https://www.theregister.com/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/
minus-squareBaldur NillinkfedilinkEnglish6•2 years agoAnother example is a large number of libraries using an external dependency to check if a number is odd.
minus-square@demostheneslinkEnglish3•2 years agoIt’s possible leftpad was an example Randall was thinking of, but the date of the comic is Aug 17, 2020, more than 4 years after leftpad. https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2347:_Dependency
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•2 years agoI believe it was the OpenSSL-security scandal, iirc.
I believe the nodejs fiasco is what prompted this comic?https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theregister.com/AMP/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/
AMP-free url: https://www.theregister.com/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/
Another example is a large number of libraries using an external dependency to check if a number is odd.
It’s possible leftpad was an example Randall was thinking of, but the date of the comic is Aug 17, 2020, more than 4 years after leftpad.
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2347:_Dependency
I believe it was the OpenSSL-security scandal, iirc.