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Real examples here? (discuss.tchncs.de)

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Friend who is not a software person sent me this tweet, which amused me as it did them. They asked if "runk" was real, which I assume not.

But what are some good examples of real ones like this? xz became famous for the hack of course, so i then read a bit about how important this compression algorithm is/was.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

Is-even and is-odd on npm.

For a while, openssl was maintained by 1 or 2 people.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Like half of the npm is maintained by a single, arguably awful, person who writes his microprojects into large pieces of software to maximize how often his code gets installed.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Sindre Sorhus?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Just looked them up… holy hell. How does one have so many repos! And all the apps he’s made. ~~What’s the story on them?~~

Edit: just looked it up myself. Seems to be a well liked person in the open source community. Idk. Regardless, props to them for the work they put in.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

That's them, yup!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Jon Schlinkert, I believe. Sindre has a lot of stuff as well, but has a better reputation afaik

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Sounds like a fork is in order

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 months ago

Is-even and is-odd are the stupidest packages ever written. Except for all the others that guy wrote.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The popularity of these two packages shows that something is very wrong with JavaScript.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, it shows people are lazy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well, that as well, but it’s an also bit tricky to safely check if a number is even because JavaScript uses floats for numbers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

It's not tricky. Modulus operator works fine.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I would love this even more if one depended on the other and just did a “not even” for example.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I thought that was the case tbh, has it changed?

Edit: is-even depends on is-odd.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

It would be even better if each one depended on the other.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Well good news! Time to let yourself love again!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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