"Yudkowsky's Law of Continued Failure says that if they're dumb enough to do X, they're dumb enough to go on doing X after the next stimulus." In this latest saga of NPM-related fail, it's just another stimulus, so don't expect anything to happen that might address the underlying problems of the ecosystem.
I did say it was about Node, not NPM, but you're right on the article quality too. I even used Node after reading that post..and liked it. But actually I was wrong to even associate it with Zed's post, since Zed's post is mainly about the community and not about the technology. I inferred the call for a similar post on NPM to be technology related and pattern matched on the wrong dimension of "poorly received ranty criticism" entirely! Oh well.
"Yudkowsky's Law of Continued Failure says that if they're dumb enough to do X, they're dumb enough to go on doing X after the next stimulus." In this latest saga of NPM-related fail, it's just another stimulus, so don't expect anything to happen that might address the underlying problems of the ecosystem.