any of the random inconsistencies that Javascript throws up.
Proving the poster above you's point exactly. You understand Python and think it's excusable, you don't understand JavaScript so dismiss it.
Posts by sabroni
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When it comes to ML, reports of JavaScript's death are exaggerated
Wednesday 22nd November 2017 11:23 GMT 
it allows you to perform a subtraction between a string and an integer without raising an error
The engineer who wrote the code that did that comparison, in the knowledge that JavaScript will just co-erce the types until it can do what it's asked to, and then complains about it, is not a good engineer.
If you're string contained "40" and your number was 2 and the answer returned was the number 38, what's your problem?
Wednesday 22nd November 2017 11:20 GMT
there's nothing terrible in javascript
Sorry, but if I can write:
if (a == b) and get true and
if (b == a) and get false then that is terrible.
Of course, as any fule no, if (a === b) then (b === a), so the language is definitely usable. In fact I love a bit of JavaScript. But all languages have terrible bits, the trick to being a good engineer is knowing what to avoid. (The == behaviour can be useful if you know it'll co-erce to the type of the left hand thing.)
Still, all the knee jerk "javascript is terrible" comments are stupid. It's a language, a very powerful language when used correctly. Learn to use it correctly.
The problem is that people who think it's terrible write terrible code, then go "look, this is terrible!" without any sense of irony.
Wait, did Oracle tip off world to Google's creepy always-on location tracking in Android?
Crypto-jackers enlist Google Tag Manager to smuggle alt-coin miners
Baaa-d moooo-ve: Debian Linux depicts intimate cow-sheep action in ASCII artwork
More than half of GitHub is duplicate code, researchers find
Aww: Apple won't be HomePod for Christmas
It's 2017, and command injection is still the top threat to web apps
Monday 20th November 2017 08:59 GMT
moving functionality from the server side to the client “brings its own security challenges”.
Not really. Security on the client is always just a convenience to the user (don't waste their time allowing them to start things they don't have the permissions to finish). Real security has to be on the server. There is no real way of securing the client, it's a browser.
Amazon Key door-entry flaw: No easy fix to stop rogue couriers burgling your place unseen
The Quantum of Firefox: Why is this one unlike any other Firefox?
Wednesday 15th November 2017 17:15 GMT
"But the deck is stacked against nondefault browsers.
You can’t distribute a phone without Chrome, unless you give up Gmail,"
Surely Google and Android are in exactly the same position as MS and IE 15 years ago? Where's the browser choice screen when I start my new Android phone? C'mon EU, quick before we leave, get an antitrust investigation going!!!
Privacy Pass protocol promises private perusing
Wednesday 15th November 2017 08:51 GMT
Re: since their entire business model is based on continuous end-to-end user surveillance
We had adverts before the internet. You don't have to track people to advertise to them. For a start you can use the site to identify the type of ads that might work, for example tech ads on a tech news site.
Brit moron tried buying a car bomb on dark web, posted it to his address. Now he's screwed
Thursday 9th November 2017 08:56 GMT
Re: the vast majority of terrorist incidents world wide are linked to Islam
Or you could say the vast majority of terrorists incidents world wide are linked to western imperialism. Learn a bit of history, as usual the situation is far more complex than "islam = bad, capitalism = good".
No, I'm not excusing terrorism, I'm also not giving Western governments a free pass.
Google on flooding the internet with fake news: Leave us alone, we're trying really hard... *sob*
Wednesday 8th November 2017 08:22 GMT
Re: Lessons from Orlowski
If you only read articles written by people you agree with you'll never understand other points of view. I read the Daily Mail (online) most days, not because I'm a racist but because it's useful to see how stories are presented from different perspectives.
Besides, if you stop reading these pieces who's going to point out the flaws?
Don't worry about those 40 Linux USB security holes. That's not a typo
Parity calamity! Wallet code bug destroys $280m in Ethereum
Transparent algorithms? Here's why that's a bad idea, Google tells MPs
It's 2017 and you can still pwn Android gear with Wi-Fi packets – so get patching now
Google remembers it has an air-fares API, takes the usual action
Google reveals rapid Bluetooth gadget connection tech
Health quango: Booze 'evidence' not Puritan enough, do us another
Tories spared fine after being told off by ICO for election telemarketing
Gotta have standards? Security boffins not API about bloated browsers
Tuesday 24th October 2017 15:46 GMT
The apis are accessed from JavaScript, not html. It's a language not a protocol. Yes, the attack surface is made larger by these apis. However, all these features are available to native apps too. Why is downloading an executable less risky than downloading a script that runs in a browser?
This is only half a report as it doesn't compare browser usage of these apis to native app usage of them and the associated risks.
You're doing open source wrong, Microsoft tsk-tsk-tsks at Google: Chrome security fixes made public too early
Thursday 19th October 2017 07:59 GMT
Re: If so, I think they're still doing it wrong.
Only if you don't care about security. I notice you don't have an alternative option that allows the repo and product to stay in step without leaking vulnerabilities before the fixes are in use.
If I didn't know better I'd think some people's animosity to Redmond clouds their judgement.....
What the fdisk? Storage Spaces Direct just vanished from Windows Server in version 1709
Thursday 19th October 2017 07:24 GMT
Hmm, so you're suggesting they dropped it because no one used it? I think the paranoid ravings at the top of the thread are more entertaining, but you may be right. It's not like they don't have data to show them who's using what now. And Google regularly pull the plug on lightly used services with no obvious tech backlash so MS are probably thinking they should be able to do the same...
Ex-TalkTalk chief grilled by MPs on suitability to chair NHS Improvement
Release the KRACKen patches: The good, the bad, and the ugly on this WPA2 Wi-Fi drama
Storms blow away 2017 Solar Challenge field
Twitter: Why we silenced Rose McGowan after she slammed alleged sex pest Harvey Weinstein
Dumb bug of the week: Outlook staples your encrypted emails to, er, plaintext copies when sending messages
Microsoft silently fixes security holes in Windows 10 – dumps Win 7, 8 out in the cold
Tuesday 10th October 2017 08:02 GMT
Re: because there was a better way.
That's just straight up wrong. Windows 10 still has the list of applications, grouped in folders if you like, that older Windows have. It's just the location of things in those lists that have changed. If you don't want to learn the new places (not new way, just new location) then you can search by name.
Windows 10 has been out long enough for you to have learned where stuff is. If you have to work on Windows you need to know this. If you don't need to know this, why are you moaning about it?
FreeBSD gains eMMC support so … errr … watch out, Android
BBC Telly Tax petition given new Parliament debate date
Tuesday 3rd October 2017 12:09 GMT
Re: Please someone tell me why I should pay the license fee?
Same reason that some of your taxes fund the roads even if you don't drive, the health service even when you're not poor and education though you're not a child.
This isn't a subscription service, it's a tax to fund a public broadcaster.
Computers4Christians miraculously appears on Ubuntu wiki
UK lotto players quids in: Website knocked offline by DDoS attack
Itching to stuff iOS 11 on your iPhone? You may want to hold off for a bit
macOS High Sierra more like 'Cry Sierra' for Mac-wielding beta testers
Wednesday 20th September 2017 07:25 GMT
Re: How can releasing a free os 8 years after the machines shipped be called greed?
Because they spent effort locking it down rather than just giving a warning, and in doing so they introduced a reason for non-malware writers to try and crack the lock. Plenty of people know the "risks" of running on older hardware, some of them have the nous to be able to break Apple's lock. Once broken the lock then introduces potential vulnerabilities for all users.
Apple's only motivation in introducing the Lock is to stop older machines being upgraded. It's a greedy attempt to force users to buy new machines.
It's not tricky.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
