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The Winterlong Trilogy by Elizabeth Hand

Gothic, Grand Guignol-drenched post-apocalyptic science-fantasy. "Febrile" is a word that comes to mind – the language is overstuffed, it's dense with references to fantasy and folklore, and the characters are run through the wringer. Not the last of her novels to feature a transmogrified Washington DC as a primary venue.

Waking the Moon by Elizabeth Hand

Roman á clef and supernatural romance (in the traditional, not Twilight sense) featuring the hidden war between the Benandanti, a sect of nasty old patriarchal quasi-Catholics, and the forces of Othiym Lunarsa, goddess of a long-suppressed matriarchal death cult. If Camille Paglia ever read this, she probably loved it, but the central story is basically an overheated, fantastic version of Whit Stillman's Metropolitan and so th

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Use cases

1. As npm, I want to safely put only valid metadata and tarballs into the npm cache.
2. As npm, I want to ensure that multiple npms running concurrently don't download the same things repeatedly.

Requirements

1. single-machine
2. no native dependencies
3. multi-process serialization for both reads and writes

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1. acquire $lock, fail
2. stat $lock, find that it is stale
3. acquire $lock.STALE
4. stat $lock, assert that it is still stale
5. unlink $lock
6. link $lock.STALE $lock
7. unlink $lock.STALE

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• my job is to make npm the most useful tool it can be
• to me, "useful" encompasses values:
  • pragmatism > rigor
    • people don't want their tools to surprise them
  • simplicity > completeness
    • do a few things well
    • let the community fill in the cracks
  • problems > solutions
    • developers love to skip over problems
• having a clear understanding of several different problems often suggests an approach that will cover many or most of them

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var tap = require("tap")

var server = require("./lib/server.js")
var common = require("./lib/common.js")

tap.test("get returns 403", function (t) {
  server.expect("/underscore", function (req, res) {
    t.equal(req.method, "GET", "got expected method")

    res.writeHead(403)

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Using domain server:
Name: 8.8.8.8
Address: 8.8.8.8#53
Aliases: 

a.sni.fastly.net has address 199.27.79.162
a.sni.fastly.net has address 185.31.18.162
a.sni.fastly.net has address 23.235.39.162
a.sni.fastly.net has address 185.31.17.162
a.sni.fastly.net has address 23.235.44.162

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{
  "name": "broken-with-shrinkwrap",
  "version": "0.0.0-prealpha.0.0",
  "dependencies": {
    "gifsicle": "1.0.2",
    "jpegtran-bin": "1.0.2",
    "optipng-bin": "1.0.1"
  }
}

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--- test.1	2014-09-21 00:50:56.000000000 -0700
+++ test.3	2014-09-21 00:57:02.000000000 -0700
@@ -1,10 +1,14 @@
+.\" Generated with Ronnjs 0.4.0
+.\" http://github.com/kapouer/ronnjs
+.
 .TH "NPM\-INSTALL" "1" "September 2014" "" ""
+.
 .SH "NAME"
-\fBnpm-install\fR \- Install a package

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bauchelain% h clone kapouer/marked-man
Cloning into 'marked-man'...
remote: Counting objects: 334, done.
remote: Total 334 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
Receiving objects: 100% (334/334), 69.87 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (160/160), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
bauchelain% cd marked-man
bauchelain% npm install
marked@0.3.2 node_modules/marked

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diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 11304e1..dc5f1cd 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -147,7 +147,13 @@ test-debugger: all
        $(PYTHON) tools/test.py debugger

 test-npm: node
-       ./node deps/npm/test/run.js
+       rm -rf npm-cache npm-tmp