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In 2016, a software developer named Azer Koçulu deleted his open-source Javascript package from NPM (a Javascript package manager). The deleted package was called "left-pad". It was only 11 lines of code that simply padded a string with characters. Koçulu deleted it because he had a dispute with NPM and Kik Messenger. NPM had forcibly taken the package name "kik" from him, which he was using it, to give it to Kik. In response, Koçulu deleted all of the packages he had submitted to NPM. It turns out, "left-pad" was a dependency of several major software packages, such as Babel, Webpack, and React. These are all critical to Javascript and widely used by many individuals, as well as big tech companies like Facebook, Spotify, and Netflix. By simply deleting 11 lines of code, Koçulu successfully disrupted the operations of several multi-billion dollar companies who were all unknowingly using his code. 12 module.exports = leftpad; 3 function leftpad (str, len, ch) { 4 strString(str); 5 6 var i = -1; 7 8 ch || (ch' '); 9 len len str.length; 10 11 12 13 while (++i < len) { strch + str; 14 } 15 16 return str; 17 } Contents of left-pad at the time of its npm removal

Cheeky open-source software developer deleted 11 lines of code and disrupted the operations of several multi-billion dollar corporations who were all unknowingly using his work. | /r/madlads


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