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adrianhoward on May 29, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why I Use Perl: Reliability

You're quite correct. My apologies.

I misunderstood the 39411 number to be the total number of gems submitted over all time, rather than the total number of extant versions. My bad.

bgilroy26 on May 29, 2012 [–]

Don't worry, it happens all the time [1].

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3238544

vog on May 30, 2012 | [–]

Ironically, this is the same issue of sloppy testing, just at another level (i.e. missing usability tests on the http://rubygems.org/gems website for at least months, maybe years)

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