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Re:Continuing frequency deviation in the Continental Europea... by Piskvorrr on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @10:21AM (#16536945)
Putting Lego blocks together is engineering now?

Edit: NPM has engineering challenges, and Node as well...but I would be extremely hesitant to call a library of ~ten LoC "engineering."

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Re:Continuing frequency deviation in the Continental Europea... by baq on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @02:24PM (#16539034)
i'm not a fan of what the JS ecosystem looks like, but you can and will get bitten by transitive dependencies if you don't store them all in a local mirror that doesn't respect upstream deletions...
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Re:Continuing frequency deviation in the Continental Europea... by Piskvorrr on Thursday March 08, 2018 @06:59AM (#16543806)
Of course. But that's an engineering problem worthy of the name (cache-invalidation and whatnot).
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