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		jandrese on Feb 19, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Valve releases Team Fortress 2 code Middle managers look at that XKCD comic[1] and say "we need to buy out that guy in Nebraska and monetize it". [1] https://xkcd.com/2347/

zeroq on Feb 19, 2025 [–]

strong leftPad vibes here

hell, when I joined the frontend circus in 2013 I was flabbergasted that most people needed to install 3rd party library to perform "isEven(num)" operation

... not to mention that aforementioned library had at least 3 dependencies itself.

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