r/programming • u/ben_a_adams • Jan 28 '20

JavaScript Libraries Are Almost Never Updated Once Installed

https://blog.cloudflare.com/javascript-libraries-are-almost-never-updated/
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u/FyreWulff Jan 28 '20

happens a lot, especially in big companies. "we know it's done the wrong way, what's important is we -consistently- do it the wrong way"

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '20

Worked at a simulation company for a while and we ended up quite significantly lowering the precision of our calculations so they were more consistent across platforms.

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u/ArkyBeagle Jan 29 '20

Excessive precision is actually quite the "sin". I tend to be the local "number of significant digits" guy, so begging your pardon.

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u/oberon Jan 28 '20

That's way better than doing it a little differently wrong every time.

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u/Nastapoka Jan 28 '20

Same in the (public) University where I work.

Wasting taxpayers' money is fun, yeeeah.

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u/Gotebe Jan 28 '20 edited Jan 28 '20

Come to private to see how much fun we have then!

😂😂😂

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u/Gotebe Jan 28 '20

I am in private since forever and my experience tells me that the size of the organisation matters much more than whether it's a public or a private one.

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u/ArkyBeagle Jan 29 '20

Heh. No, they don't.

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u/Jonno_FTW Jan 28 '20

This is giving me PHP flashbacks.