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Re:NPM – "is-even", 160k weekly downloads by vlunkr on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @12:09PM (#29243121)
> I wonder how many jobs they’ve applied to while bragging about their millions of monthly NPM downloads.

Do people really do this? Does this explain the dumpster fire ecosystem of NPM?

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Re:NPM – "is-even", 160k weekly downloads by ratww on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @12:15PM (#29243223)
It is perfectly normal to see "N packages on NPM with N downloads" in resumés, and often a good sign.

...but interviewers often assume that they are all useful packages and that the numbers are not inflated.

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