Presumably this is using a docker instance on AWS or the like?
BTW: Well done... nothing like rubbing it in. :o)
Left-pad as a service
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#13What about splitting left and pad in two microservices?
3 maybe.... iteration-as-a-service also??
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#14This is really exciting!!! I was a bit disappointed that the right-pad will be out only in 2017. I am looking forward to that release because there is a high demand for it now.
What kind of load balancing is being used on the back-end? I called leftpad(str, ch, len) with the length I needed and noticed that is not very scalable because it is blocking.
A better approach I would recommend to those using it is to call the API in a for loop. In my tests, it had performance very close to those I see in C or assembly.
I was a bit turned off that the free version can only handle strings up to 1024 in length. I know you need to make some money, but it is big turn off for a lot of my projects.
Edit: I finally signed up for it but still noticed that I am only allowed to use 1024. I called your customer support line and they said I was calling the API from multiple IP addresses and for that I need an enterprise license. Please help me with this issue, it is very crucial at this point as my project is in a complete stop because of this.
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#15Doesn't work with unicode characters:
# ~ [8:47:18] $ curl 'https://api.left-pad.io/?str=點看&len=5&ch=0' {"str":"￩ﾻﾞﾜﾋ"}%
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#16Hahaha - isn't it hysterical how everyone using npm for small reusable code pieces! Aren't they morons! How stupid of people to trust their package manager to be consistent and correct and return packages they were expecting. How stupid of people to reuse small often used functions that only do one thing well. How does everyone taking the piss intend to protect themselves from this in their OS package manager, or PPM…
I use a lot of micro modules. And I think micro modules are a good idea.
But this whole thing is freaking funny. You gotta acknowledge that.
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#17Hahaha - isn't it hysterical how everyone using npm for small reusable code pieces! Aren't they morons! How stupid of people to trust their package manager to be consistent and correct and return packages they were expecting. How stupid of people to reuse small often used functions that only do one thing well. How does everyone taking the piss intend to protect themselves from this in their OS package manager, or PPM…
I think it's less smugness (there certainly is some) and more disbelief / unfamiliarity.
JS isn't the first language without great libraries (C's stdlib, `math.h`, `string.h` are good but don't have string padding functions, for example) so there's precedence going back a very long way. Most solutions involve coming up with a utilities library that contains the basic things (like a math library, or a strings library).
There's nothing wrong with creating utility libraries for JS. I think people are surprised because the approach taken - that they are composable down to the function - is so radically different from the industry standard. Coupled with a package manager that requires fetching so many deps for such trivial functionality.
People do tend to form isolated communities around languages (look at the language for basic data structures between PHP, Ruby and Python) and this kind of thing probably helps shake up that isolation which is probably good for both sides.
(I could be wrong it could just be sneering)
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#18Hahaha - isn't it hysterical how everyone using npm for small reusable code pieces! Aren't they morons! How stupid of people to trust their package manager to be consistent and correct and return packages they were expecting. How stupid of people to reuse small often used functions that only do one thing well. How does everyone taking the piss intend to protect themselves from this in their OS package manager, or PPM…
Thank you. I thought I was the only one who thought the whole thing sounded like a smug "look, there are worse programmers than me out there".
Even more annoying, IMO, is the fact that this was a freaking denial-of-service over thousands of projects which was solved IN HOURS. Instead of celebrating the resilience of the duct-taped Jenga game that is the internet, we're complaining about how other programmers should be more like ourselves? What is this, vi vs emacs? :D
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#20Hahaha - isn't it hysterical how everyone using npm for small reusable code pieces! Aren't they morons! How stupid of people to trust their package manager to be consistent and correct and return packages they were expecting. How stupid of people to reuse small often used functions that only do one thing well. How does everyone taking the piss intend to protect themselves from this in their OS package manager, or PPM…
I use a lot of micro modules. And I think micro modules are a good idea. But this whole thing is freaking funny. You gotta acknowledge that.
I dunno; I think it's a balancing act between dependencies and code reuse. I think npm needs to not let people unpublish stuff without thought - that is where the problem is and I'm sure they are thinking about a solution to this.
I think a lot of this is implying "don't use micro packages on your package manager, copy and paste code in helpers.js FTW". I've seen people advocating this as if it's a better solution than have npm remain consistent even after people unpublish packages.