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koide on Sept 10, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bower: A package manager for the web, from Twitter

Amazing how timing (and luck?) matters on whether a submission gets to the top or not.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4487221

Also of note: the algorithm to check URL was already submitted is easily fooled.

exogen on Sept 10, 2012 [–]

Indeed. I was disappointed that the two prior submissions by other folks (the other was of the direct repository page) both had 0 comments. Figured I would resubmit it anyway during a more active time, given that it's genuinely worthy of discussion.

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