I Peeked into My Node_Modules Directory (opens in new tab)

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43 pointsdavidgl6y ago17 comments

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isoprophlex6y ago· 3 in thread

Look i enjoy pissing on npm packages just as much as the next brogramming hipster but...

'imagine if the car you drove to work had more than 291 parts'

Well... Imagine it has less than that number of parts!

Or imagine an apple containing less than that many distinct chemical substances!

Not the best example...

nkrisc6y ago

I think the fact that both of these are terrible examples is part of the joke. They have so little to do with making the point the author wants to make (satirically) that they're almost a non sequitur.

isoprophlex6y ago

Ha! Thanks ... I'm so dense I didn't get that, I actually believed there's a guy fiery bitmap in all those packages

This is some quality satire, haha

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robinduckett6y ago

Yeah I read this and raised an eyebrow. Imagine having this many bones in your body >.>

Tomte6y ago· 2 in thread

Fascinating to see all those attempts to count the number of dependencies (including calling the man page), but why include this in the post?

BossingAround6y ago

It's a satire... The whole post is a satire. Just read on, it gets more and more ridiculous. Of course it's all made up.

Tomte6y ago

Ah, thanks. I guess I've read so much about the JavaScript ecosystem that I didn't doubt it.

Tajnymag6y ago

An important note for many: this article is a satire, meant as a joke making fun of all the other similar posts

whalesalad6y ago

The capitalization treatment in the title of the post (not just here in HN) is like nails on a chalkboard.

bassman90006y ago

Glimmer brings in the entirety of Encyclopedia Brittanica, just to display the definition for the word “glimmer” in its help menu.

Nice.

rafaelvasco6y ago

Even if it is a satire, there would be no satire in the first place if it weren't at least partially true.

m4r35n3576y ago

Yeah, you want to watch out for those "rouge" developers!

bouke6y ago

Author is complaining about Ember having "glimmer" as a dependency and not knowing what it does, however the author is searching github/google for the term "glitter".

codesections6y ago

Article from 2016

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