swolchok

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   by swolchok 18y ago

   Obfuscation adds an inconvenience barrier: you get the code for free (of course, because you can't be stopped), but you don't get nice, maintainable, well-written code for free.
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   by swolchok 18y ago

   Look, dude, web software is often part of a software as a service model. If I let you dig through my JS, you would get the service for free. In short: No.
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   by swolchok 18y ago

   It would be nice if it made IE disappear out of its sheer appeal to the masses.
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   by swolchok 18y ago

   I feel that this article is the sort I would not like to see on HN, because it can't teach anything to hackers. As seen by the discussion it elicited, it's just starting a write-only conversation with many elements of a flame war.
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   by swolchok 18y ago

   The above post is a reference to Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson. However, I don't think it contributes very positively to the discussion, because now someone ELSE will reply, and we'll have to have a circle jerk about how great that book wa
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   by swolchok 18y ago

   "If they ever want to have a “hypervisor” run above games, they’ll need to get a new CPU with full-blown virtualization capability (or an emulator), because games assume they have direct access to the CPU and most of the hardware." Near-tau