Ken Thompson's work was beautiful and subtle - a compiler disguised all evidence of its backdoor even when you write code to search for these backdoors or when you compile the compiler itself.
True. But that works only when there's one compiler available for a particular language. If you bootstrap a compiler with three independent compilers, the backdoor is highly unlikely to persist into all three according to "Diverse Double-Compiling" by David A. Wheeler. Compile the compiler A with multiple compilers B, C, and D, and then compile A with (A compiled with B), (A compiled with C), and (A compiled with D), and you end up with (A compiled with A), (A compiled with A), and (A compiled with A). If they're identical, then B, C, and D have either no backdoor or an identical backdoor. Which is more likely?
Of course, all this requires that source code for A be available to the public or at least to a person trusted by the public to release compiler binaries. This is true of TCC, GCC, and Clang, not so much for Microsoft C++.
It's far less convenient to write a multi-paragraph reply on a phone's touch screen than on a Bluetooth keyboard. And many video games, such as Pixeline and the Jungle Treasure, work far better with a Bluetooth keyboard or gamepad than with an on-screen virtual gamepad. What alternative do you propose that allows the use of external keyboards and gamepads?
PC gaming is cheaper. Online multiplayer is without monthly fees.
Which platform is cheaper for offline multiplayer? Especially if you have kids, it may be a choice of one console, a few controllers, and one copy of each game, or two to four gaming PCs and copies of each game.
A touch screen like that of the iPad is not the ideal input method for all game genres. It's good for the same kinds of games that can be played with a mouse: point-and-click, endless runners, and certain kinds of shoot-em-up that use the touch screen like a trackpad. But something with a keyboard or gamepad works better for, say, platformers. For this you may want a PlayStation 4 or a PlayStation Vita.
PCs also have exclusive titles. There are plenty of games on Steam that don't appear in PlayStation Store. Mods are PC-exclusive as well; without mods, there'd be no Team Fortress and Counter-Strike. The question then becomes which platform has the exclusives most appealing to you (especially if they're Nintendo's), as well as whether games are intentionally crippled on one platform (such as removal of split-screen only on the PC version).
I'd compare it to a Game Boy Color (GBC), whose games fell into two categories:
Dual-mode games
These run on pre-GBC systems (the original Game Boy, Super Game Boy, and Game Boy Pocket) but have additional features on GBC. The cartridge has the original mold shape with an "innie" grip, and most are black (as opposed to gray for original Game Boy games). All dual-mode games have severe motion blur on the original Game Boy (but not on SGB, Pocket, or GBC). Some dual-mode games had slowdown on pre-GBC systems for any of three reasons: a slower processor (4.2 MHz vs. 8.4 MHz for GBC), lack of VRAM DMA, and intentionally reduced frame rate to accommodate the original Game Boy's severe motion blur. Early on, most GBC games were dual mode because of the massive installed base of pre-GBC systems.
Exclusive games
These run only on GBC. They display an error message if used with pre-GBC systems. The cartridge has a new mold with an "outie" grip, and most are transparent. Starting a couple years after the GBC's release, most games were exclusive.
Likewise, dual-mode games for Neo may slow down or have reduced graphical complexity when run on an original PlayStation 4. And starting a couple years after the Neo's release, SCE may end up reversing its stance and allowing Neo-only games.
Of course it does. It says NotDrWho is smart for choosing quality clothes that survive being worn and machine-washed hundreds of times, rather than cheap discount-store clothes that may not last even a hundred washes (two years).
Is there any constitutional barrier to switching from FPTP to approval voting at a county or state level, as a trial before federal deployment? Technically, it would need no change to voting machines, as they already support "vote for up to n-1 candidates" functionality.
If the ad is not displayed, then the app displays an error message and begs for an IAP to subscribe to ad-free use, sticking everything you've done in the app behind a paywall. Are you fine with this? Or by "should not be displayed" did you mean that it should not appear in the App Store or other platform's counterpart at all?
I would happily pay a one-time fee, but app subscriptions are silly.
Without a subscription, who would fund the continued development of updated versions of an app, especially one whose user base is plateauing (as smartphone sales are according to the featured article)?
if I can do it from a browser on my desktop/laptop why the hell do I need an app to do it on my phone?
If it's desktop vs. phone at all, then the difference is that you're more likely to be carrying your phone than your laptop on your person. Since netbooks were discontinued at the end of 2012, it has become more difficult to buy a laptop to be carried everywhere, as laptops larger than 10.1" need a bigger bag that's more likely to attract thieves.
If it's the fact that a particular task is done in a web browser on a desktop but needs a native app on a phone, the difference might be that Internet data transfer on your desktop is unlimited or nearly so, but data on your phone is tightly metered. Compare a 300 GB/mo plan from Comcast to a 3 GB/mo plan from a cellular carrier. Because Safari for iOS doesn't support ServiceWorker, native applications have far better offline support than web applications.
Oh, and a financial calculator that I need for an exam I'm going to be taking tomorrow.
I thought exams prohibited the use of touch-screen devices out of fear of cheating. I know the SAT does.
I've read that apps request phone state for two reasons: so that a game, music player, or video player can pause when you get a call, or so that an app can start saving your most recent changes to the document you're working on to flash memory before Android OOM-kills the app to make room for the the dialer app. How would you prefer a game, music player, or video player to react when you receive a call? And would you prefer a document-oriented app to lose your latest changes, or waste your battery and wear your flash memory out continuously writing your changes to flash memory, just to avoid this permission?
Need my address book? Fuck off.
If you try four or five different email apps, do you prefer to enter your contacts manually into each?
Their is a new API which is now supported by all the latest browsers: [ServiceWorker]
For one thing, ServiceWorker requires HTTPS, and HTTPS requires a certificate from a CA, and the CAs whose root certificates are included with browsers won't issue certificates for machines on a private LAN. Do ServiceWorker tutorials mention how to test an application using ServiceWorker over a LAN, with the web server on the development workstation and the client on a smartphone or tablet running a smartphone OS?
For another, the page you linked mentions that Safari doesn't support ServiceWorker, so you'd still need a native app to reach iOS users.
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Yo dawg, I put a ship in your ship[BWRAAAAMMMM]
But who or what is this ship in love with?
Performance tuning is useless in a debug build.
There exist builds other than release and debug, such as profiling builds. These are in fact designed for performance tuning.
I don't believe any mission critical application (or any production application) should be built in unreleased software.
What makes you think the feature of telemetry by default in the preview compiler won't make it into the final released compiler?
Ken Thompson's work was beautiful and subtle - a compiler disguised all evidence of its backdoor even when you write code to search for these backdoors or when you compile the compiler itself.
True. But that works only when there's one compiler available for a particular language. If you bootstrap a compiler with three independent compilers, the backdoor is highly unlikely to persist into all three according to "Diverse Double-Compiling" by David A. Wheeler. Compile the compiler A with multiple compilers B, C, and D, and then compile A with (A compiled with B), (A compiled with C), and (A compiled with D), and you end up with (A compiled with A), (A compiled with A), and (A compiled with A). If they're identical, then B, C, and D have either no backdoor or an identical backdoor. Which is more likely?
Of course, all this requires that source code for A be available to the public or at least to a person trusted by the public to release compiler binaries. This is true of TCC, GCC, and Clang, not so much for Microsoft C++.
It's far less convenient to write a multi-paragraph reply on a phone's touch screen than on a Bluetooth keyboard. And many video games, such as Pixeline and the Jungle Treasure, work far better with a Bluetooth keyboard or gamepad than with an on-screen virtual gamepad. What alternative do you propose that allows the use of external keyboards and gamepads?
PC gaming is cheaper. Online multiplayer is without monthly fees.
Which platform is cheaper for offline multiplayer? Especially if you have kids, it may be a choice of one console, a few controllers, and one copy of each game, or two to four gaming PCs and copies of each game.
Just keep playing games on your iPad.
A touch screen like that of the iPad is not the ideal input method for all game genres. It's good for the same kinds of games that can be played with a mouse: point-and-click, endless runners, and certain kinds of shoot-em-up that use the touch screen like a trackpad. But something with a keyboard or gamepad works better for, say, platformers. For this you may want a PlayStation 4 or a PlayStation Vita.
PCs also have exclusive titles. There are plenty of games on Steam that don't appear in PlayStation Store. Mods are PC-exclusive as well; without mods, there'd be no Team Fortress and Counter-Strike. The question then becomes which platform has the exclusives most appealing to you (especially if they're Nintendo's), as well as whether games are intentionally crippled on one platform (such as removal of split-screen only on the PC version).
I'd compare it to a Game Boy Color (GBC), whose games fell into two categories:
Dual-mode games These run on pre-GBC systems (the original Game Boy, Super Game Boy, and Game Boy Pocket) but have additional features on GBC. The cartridge has the original mold shape with an "innie" grip, and most are black (as opposed to gray for original Game Boy games). All dual-mode games have severe motion blur on the original Game Boy (but not on SGB, Pocket, or GBC). Some dual-mode games had slowdown on pre-GBC systems for any of three reasons: a slower processor (4.2 MHz vs. 8.4 MHz for GBC), lack of VRAM DMA, and intentionally reduced frame rate to accommodate the original Game Boy's severe motion blur. Early on, most GBC games were dual mode because of the massive installed base of pre-GBC systems. Exclusive games These run only on GBC. They display an error message if used with pre-GBC systems. The cartridge has a new mold with an "outie" grip, and most are transparent. Starting a couple years after the GBC's release, most games were exclusive.Likewise, dual-mode games for Neo may slow down or have reduced graphical complexity when run on an original PlayStation 4. And starting a couple years after the Neo's release, SCE may end up reversing its stance and allowing Neo-only games.
Of course it does. It says NotDrWho is smart for choosing quality clothes that survive being worn and machine-washed hundreds of times, rather than cheap discount-store clothes that may not last even a hundred washes (two years).
Is there any constitutional barrier to switching from FPTP to approval voting at a county or state level, as a trial before federal deployment? Technically, it would need no change to voting machines, as they already support "vote for up to n-1 candidates" functionality.
In other words, if you want your users to be able to use your site on an iPod touch or iPad (Wi-Fi) while away from Wi-Fi, you need an app.
If you need to support something, on an older version of a phone which does not implement the HTML5 standard
Even Apple's latest phone lacks support for ServiceWorker, making it "an older version" by these criteria.
I remember websites having access to my PC webcam and microphone a good while ago
Was that through Flash Player? Smartphone operating systems don't have Flash Player.
Despite their convenient existence, the other choices consistently fail to be elected.
If the ad is not displayed, then the app displays an error message and begs for an IAP to subscribe to ad-free use, sticking everything you've done in the app behind a paywall. Are you fine with this? Or by "should not be displayed" did you mean that it should not appear in the App Store or other platform's counterpart at all?
Who elects the people who decide what they enforce?
The major news media decide which candidates for public office get name recognition.
The admiralty law misconception
Why wouldn't the owner of the property have standing under the Fifth Amendment's limit on takings?
If both the R and the D support this policy, for whom is there to vote?
I would happily pay a one-time fee, but app subscriptions are silly.
Without a subscription, who would fund the continued development of updated versions of an app, especially one whose user base is plateauing (as smartphone sales are according to the featured article)?
if I can do it from a browser on my desktop/laptop why the hell do I need an app to do it on my phone?
If it's desktop vs. phone at all, then the difference is that you're more likely to be carrying your phone than your laptop on your person. Since netbooks were discontinued at the end of 2012, it has become more difficult to buy a laptop to be carried everywhere, as laptops larger than 10.1" need a bigger bag that's more likely to attract thieves.
If it's the fact that a particular task is done in a web browser on a desktop but needs a native app on a phone, the difference might be that Internet data transfer on your desktop is unlimited or nearly so, but data on your phone is tightly metered. Compare a 300 GB/mo plan from Comcast to a 3 GB/mo plan from a cellular carrier. Because Safari for iOS doesn't support ServiceWorker, native applications have far better offline support than web applications.
Oh, and a financial calculator that I need for an exam I'm going to be taking tomorrow.
I thought exams prohibited the use of touch-screen devices out of fear of cheating. I know the SAT does.
Need my phone state? Fuck off.
I've read that apps request phone state for two reasons: so that a game, music player, or video player can pause when you get a call, or so that an app can start saving your most recent changes to the document you're working on to flash memory before Android OOM-kills the app to make room for the the dialer app. How would you prefer a game, music player, or video player to react when you receive a call? And would you prefer a document-oriented app to lose your latest changes, or waste your battery and wear your flash memory out continuously writing your changes to flash memory, just to avoid this permission?
Need my address book? Fuck off.
If you try four or five different email apps, do you prefer to enter your contacts manually into each?
Their is a new API which is now supported by all the latest browsers:
[ServiceWorker]
For one thing, ServiceWorker requires HTTPS, and HTTPS requires a certificate from a CA, and the CAs whose root certificates are included with browsers won't issue certificates for machines on a private LAN. Do ServiceWorker tutorials mention how to test an application using ServiceWorker over a LAN, with the web server on the development workstation and the client on a smartphone or tablet running a smartphone OS?
For another, the page you linked mentions that Safari doesn't support ServiceWorker, so you'd still need a native app to reach iOS users.
I've seen the first MBFGW. A lot of words are related to Greek, but Michael Constantine's character in that movie was also very good at finding false cognates to Greek. The same is true of Isaac Mozeson with Hebrew, or Joseph Greenberg and Merritt Ruhlen with everything else.