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[–] 11 points 3 months ago (5 children)

You weren't there for the Leftpad fiasco, I take it?

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Probably got put into a popular example and then everyone uses it because "that's how."

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Huh... You know what that makes more sense than anything else I've come up with. I always just assumed it was lazy devs.

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