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Interesting. They usually announce every new little feature. Perhaps they're still writing the copy.

This is a question that's itched me constantly for over 15 years that I never bothered to look up. Anyone else?

I can't necessarily agree with this, as while React itself is very simple, you will find that after sufficient experience with it in the real world, you need its ecosystem and surrounding libraries, and this can be absolutely daunting for some.

e.g. NPM, Webpack, Flux/Redux, React-Router, Thunk, DevTools, CSS, etc.

Is it me, or is the newly moved contributions text 1 pixel too high?

In spite of the length of the article, he hardly actually proves anything in regards to his point or how this can be.

I just hit backspace to go back to HN after reading this... and it didn't work.

A walk-through of the cave:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tOghHmhQKI

It gets more interesting starting on the third video.

Anyone else getting a 404?

Am I the only one who was slightly ticked off by this guy's writing style?

It was riddled with terms like "arb", clearly written for self-satisfaction. If my life was wrapped around the VC universe, I probably would not care to read this article, and yet for anyone who isn't so familiar, you need to interrupt the reading several times if you want to understand what he is talking about.

The conclusion of the article, hinted at the beginning, seems to run abrupt without fully explaining itself.

Is Hacker News declining in terms of visits?

The voting seemed to peak out in 2012 / 2013. Not just the top vote, compare all of them.

Makes me wonder if they got paid for reporting it to Google.

Everybody keep calm - the Sublime Text 2 instance used to code in the video was registered.

DuckDuckGo implemented something similar a few weeks ago:

http://duckduckhack.com/

This is probably Microsoft's response.

:)

Did you really prefer VBS over JS?

Really?

Most modern browsers are gunning hard for full support. Here is the best breakdown:

https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/

That said, it will be a long time before you can write vanilla ES6 without transpilation and publish it, for the same reason that many sites still sadly support IE<=8.

I think the title made the point.

Some small part of me was hoping this post was a little deeper than Netflix.

Nice, thanks!

Amazing project!

@Capira since you're so readily fixing things based on comments (awesome), here's another one.

You write "To prevent your browser from accessing your Device Orientation use NoScript." under the Network Scan section. Looks like copy / pasta.

An explanation of motive on one of the sub-packages:

> Yo, these are some cool packages imo. Lets make sure we have a nice backup it'd be a shame if someone unpublished them.

You're going to need quite an internet connection to NPM install that one.

It's nice that only you can see your reply titles.

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Asshole

[... a very polite request for the user to stop trolling ...]

Some interesting metadata:

The dates on the screenshots range from 31 December 2015 to 5 March 2016, with many at either the beginning or end of February.

The computer name of the hacker doing this also appears to be "want.some.vodka".

http://vncroulette.com/index.php?picture=439

Anyone want to turn the mic up at the ongoing lecture at the University of Connecticut?

http://vncroulette.com/index.php?picture=429

> Multiplied with the total number of downloads last month the node community downloaded 140GB worth of isarray.

This is not true. NPM locally caches every module the first time it is downloaded.

Therefore with widely downloaded modules such as isarray, it is very likely it has already been downloaded on the local system and so is pulled from the cache.

The actual percentage of fresh downloads from NPM in a real-world deployment is overwhelmingly small.

Not really. Usually people include them as "devDependencies", and Babel will transpile to ES5 before publishing.

I think Guillermo simply didn't care. Because it's not important for a joke.

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Uninformed presumptions are madness.

For a less sensational review of this situation, NPM published a post-mortem:

http://blog.npmjs.org/post/141577284765/kik-left-pad-and-npm

> This is not a knee-jerk action.

The only thing knee-jerk and honestly irresponsible is not warning anyone first, especially knowing how much his modules were depended upon.

Otherwise, there's nothing wrong with this.

For those who don't see it, it's a small widget above the search results that lets you set a simple metronome.