kik have a patent agent on the case with their open source software?
How one developer just broke Node, Babel and thousands of projects in 11 lines of JavaScript
Programmers were left staring at broken builds and failed installations on Tuesday after someone toppled the Jenga tower of JavaScript. A couple of hours ago, Azer Koçulu unpublished more than 250 of his modules from NPM, which is a popular package manager used by JavaScript projects to install dependencies. Koçulu yanked his …
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Tuesday 29th March 2016 16:35 GMT joeybladb
Wait. What?!??!
So one day you have the source code, and the next day you DON'T have the source code?!?!? Why oh why?!?!? Is this some kind of Web Developer thing? Didn't anyone think letting others control what goes into your project might be a BAD idea? I'm at a loss here.
Hopefully a lesson or two was learned this week!
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Friday 29th September 2017 11:03 GMT Pwnball
this can be simplified alot...
First off.. whats with all the "z n ch" etc variables? its 2017 for crying out loud, IDE's have been taking care of us for years.. there is zeros (pun intended) reason to shorten variables like that.
function padLeft(originalValue: string, width: number, character: string) {
character = character || '0';
return originalValue.length >= width ? originalValue : new Array(width - originalValue.length + 1).join(character ) + originalValue;
}
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Thursday 24th January 2019 12:52 GMT Hans Acker
kik package still unused after nearly 3 years
Great article which I am stumbling across nearly 3 years later. It's interesting to note that Kik never did publish a package under the name that started the whole fiasco. What ever happened to the "open source project" they were working on?
In fact, npm says this about the kik package: "This package name is not currently in use, but was formerly occupied by a popular package. To avoid malicious use, npm is hanging on to the package name, but loosely, and we'll probably give it to you if you want it."
It'd be interesting to see an editorial follow up as to what happened to the parties involved.