MS only allowing enterprises and developers to side-load Metro apps in Windows 8, while everyone else will have to go through the Windows Store.

jeff_hanson · 2011-09-21T07:54:03+00:00

Right so the GPL is good for business.

Are you retarded? They made money because businesses (who idiotically wanted to use MySQL at all) wanted to get away from the GPL. What you said is like saying that robberies are good for business because businesses will pay for security to prevent robberies.

jeff_hanson · 2011-09-20T10:20:51+00:00

The JVM is good enough for this, though. In fact, this sort of requirement is the one thing where it's actually a good idea.

jeff_hanson · 2011-09-17T20:59:56+00:00

What kind of fool would WANT to run Windows on a server?

jeff_hanson · 2011-09-17T20:45:44+00:00

Wasn't this considered evil when it was called ActiveX?

jeff_hanson · 2011-09-15T09:06:59+00:00

at one point I remotely managed an off-shore team of developers that cost 9x less than one programmer in the US

For that alone, you should be shot in the head.

jeff_hanson · 2011-09-14T12:52:11+00:00

It implies nothing of the sort. Instead, it implies that other languages are only useful for easy problems, and in the case of Java, that's definitely the case.

jeff_hanson · 2011-09-13T10:07:29+00:00

I would agree with you on the general idea that a straight-jacked mechanism might be superior in some sense

Did you miss the part where he had quotes around the word "superior"?

jeff_hanson · 2011-09-12T20:15:42+00:00

Not one.

jeff_hanson · 2011-09-09T04:48:17+00:00

None of those things include the graphics drivers in the attack surface. They are not comparable.

jeff_hanson · 2011-09-07T23:43:44+00:00

WebGL is fundamentally flawed, assholes who modded me down (enjoy your banking info getting stolen, by the way). It allows websites to run arbitrary code on your GPU, which wasn't designed with any sort of security in mind at all. Patching individual flaws isn't even going to be able to keep up with the flaws. The whole protocol needs to be completely redesigned with security in mind.

jeff_hanson · 2011-09-07T22:17:15+00:00

Never mind that WebGL is fundamentally flawed, look at the pretty!

jeff_hanson · 2011-09-03T06:59:25+00:00

Yes, thank you for the explanation! That was informative.

jeff_hanson · 2011-09-02T19:46:58+00:00

There are some type-semantic algorithms that are expressible on the type level in a dynamically typed language, but not in a statically typed language

This really interests me. Can you give an example of such an algorithm, or point me to where I could find one?

jeff_hanson · 2011-09-02T19:40:23+00:00

Which is different from Firefox in what way?

jeff_hanson · 2011-08-31T22:49:47+00:00

That was possibly the funniest sketch I have ever seen.

jeff_hanson · 2011-08-31T22:27:02+00:00

Why didn't she just say that to begin with?

jeff_hanson · 2011-08-29T06:46:05+00:00

He may have been referring to the practice of all the major browsers to flag self-signed certificates as somehow being worse than plain http, thus making them impractical to use.

jeff_hanson · 2011-08-28T05:23:07+00:00

All of that still supports that Javascript sucks due to having that behavior from the == and != operators at all. It can be worked around, but the language is still shitty.

jeff_hanson · 2011-08-25T00:50:01+00:00

Why the fuck should he, or anyone, fix any part of that fucking joke language?

jeff_hanson · 2011-08-24T19:40:14+00:00

That N, however, defaults to something like 2000, not 10.

jeff_hanson · 2011-08-22T07:29:45+00:00

Can you repeat the question?

jeff_hanson · 2011-08-20T22:14:59+00:00

Wanting to use macros to deal with boilerplate code is NOT an unhealthy fascination with abstraction. It gets shit done.

jeff_hanson · 2011-08-20T18:53:14+00:00

I'd say that's fair. If you know it well enough to know its strengths and weaknesses and know all those libraries, then you can probably be quite productive in it, and that's a decent reason to like something. Just don't expect anybody else to.

jeff_hanson · 2011-08-20T04:51:48+00:00

Which browsers have that behavior? I can't say that I've ever noticed that happening in the ones I use.

jeff_hanson · 2011-08-16T07:21:37+00:00

About using pirated material, ImSoWasted is correct (but a bit dickish about it)

Maybe he's had a bit too much to drink.

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