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minus-squareengagewithzorp@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down6·17 hours agoIs this a real example? Or are we just talking about linux here
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up6·9 hours agoNebraska and 2003 have got to be fictional details, but there’s several small programs or libraries that have some kind of similar story.
minus-squareCaptain Aggravated@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·11 hours agoYou weren’t there for the Leftpad fiasco, I take it?
minus-squareHobo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 hours agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Npm_left-pad_incident For the uninformed. It still somehow both boggles my mind and makes 100% sense that people didn’t just write this function when they needed something to pad strings.
minus-squareCaptain Aggravated@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 hours agoProbably got put into a popular example and then everyone uses it because “that’s how.”
minus-squareHobo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 hours agoHuh… You know what that makes more sense than anything else I’ve come up with. I always just assumed it was lazy devs.
minus-squaredavetortoise@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·17 hours agoA huge proportion (most?) of server infrastructure runs on linux.
minus-squareengagewithzorp@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 hours agoThat’s what I meant. I phrased it badly, i meant to ask if it was about Linux or something else
minus-squarenomecks@lemmy.wtflinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 hours agoIt was leftpad. A stupid little function that was used by like 90% of the internet, and it crashed everything during a name dispute. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Npm_left-pad_incident
Is this a real example? Or are we just talking about linux here
Nebraska and 2003 have got to be fictional details, but there’s several small programs or libraries that have some kind of similar story.
You weren’t there for the Leftpad fiasco, I take it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Npm_left-pad_incident
For the uninformed. It still somehow both boggles my mind and makes 100% sense that people didn’t just write this function when they needed something to pad strings.
Probably got put into a popular example and then everyone uses it because “that’s how.”
Huh… You know what that makes more sense than anything else I’ve come up with. I always just assumed it was lazy devs.
A huge proportion (most?) of server infrastructure runs on linux.
That’s what I meant. I phrased it badly, i meant to ask if it was about Linux or something else
It was leftpad. A stupid little function that was used by like 90% of the internet, and it crashed everything during a name dispute.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Npm_left-pad_incident