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submitted 2 days ago by AnxiousMiisha@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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This is so true tho

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Hobo@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago (1 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.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 23 hours ago

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