Suspicious Dish posted:

holy lol

https://github.com/azer/left-pad/blob/master/index.js

Suspicious Dish posted:

i wrote that last night

code:

    function formatHex(v, w) {
        var S = v.toString(16).toUpperCase();
        while (S.length < w)
            S = '0' + S;
        return S;
    }

why is there an npm module for this and why don't people just write out the two lines of while loop in their own module

Suspicious Dish posted:

i wrote that last night

code:

    function formatHex(v, w) {
        var S = v.toString(16).toUpperCase();
        while (S.length < w)
            S = '0' + S;
        return S;
    }

why is there an npm module for this and why don't people just write out the two lines of while loop in their own module

suffix posted:

bro get on the micro-library train, what if like every function was its own library
(i see this idea every year or so, usually they propose identifying functions by hash or uuid or something)

suffix posted:

usually they propose identifying functions by hash or uuid or something

JawnV6 posted:

that sounds complicated, just use strlen() for now

Gazpacho posted:

Maluco Marinero posted:

anyone can write good code.

Maluco Marinero posted:

distributing and managing it with maturity is the test, and so much of the js ecosystem won't or can't. like underscore guy, who had a hissy fit over people suggesting that maybe his heavily used library should follow semver so he's not shipping backwards incompatible changes in minor version.

fritz posted:

objection.

Maluco Marinero posted:

anyone can write good code. distributing and managing it with maturity is the test, and so much of the js ecosystem won't or can't. like underscore guy, who had a hissy fit over people suggesting that maybe his heavily used library should follow semver so he's not shipping backwards incompatible changes in minor version.

Stumpalitious posted:

Kik posted the email chain and a response to the whole debacle in their own medium post: https://medium.com/@mproberts/a-discussion-about-the-breaking-of-the-internet-3d4d2a83aa4d

Basically dude is a child.

Symbolic Butt posted:

this one dude doesn't seem to be dealing well with the criticism: https://twitter.com/izs/status/712510512974716931

(see his other tweets in the thread)

homercles posted:

It seems a bit career limiting to throw such a visible temper tantrum.

Gazpacho posted:

if hypothetically we were hiring someone to write one-page JS modules and his resume landed on my desk, i might not necessarily toss it, but I'd make sure our engineering VP knew the story and got a chance to lecture him about the consequences he could face if he were to intentionally gently caress over us or our customers

otoh he's an autodidact and gently caress autodidacts

hackbunny posted:

jesus it's a perfectly legitimate thing to have in a javascript library. javascript likes to implicitly convert between types in sometimes surprising ways, and it has pitfalls like number vs Number and string vs String, so strict type-checking wrappers for common operators make a lot of sense. yes, it's silly that a package has more metadata than code, but that's so very often the case in other languages too: lots of functions will be smaller than the combination of their documentation, unit tests, etc. if you wanted a larger package than just one or two function, what the hell would you call it anyway? "utils"?

AWWNAW posted:

what's wrong with learning something on your own? doesn't every single programmer have to do that at least once a week

piratepilates posted:

"Standard Library"

Gazpacho posted:

an autodidact is someone who learns everything on their own, beep boop i m a dictionary

Gazpacho posted:

an autodidact is someone who learns everything on their own, beep boop i m a dictionary