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awesomerobot on March 23, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: A discussion about the breaking of the Internet

"Most" people don't know of either.

Kik is a messaging app, kik is a node module. Was someone going to call up the app store and install a node module? Was someone potentially going to install a messaging app into their node project?

I think there are a lot of slippery slopes here.

vlribeiro on March 24, 2016 [–]

Well, if Kik - the company - really intends to release a node module that would be enough to confuse some people.

jhall1468 on March 24, 2016 | [–]

That's the same absolutely absurd argument that npm made.

Who actually installs a module without actually seeing what it does first?

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