> The government is doing a lot of interesting things they don’t disclose. You have a unique perspective on what the adversary is doing and the state of computer security at a whole other level.
I believe in our government's right to privacy for security's sake, but reading this makes me sad. They get a bad rap, including from me sometimes. So, If they are really doing things that are that cool and useful, they should share them, so we can see where the tax dollars are working. I have a feeling though that this statement was just for PR. Nothing at the classified level can be all that cool. Coolness is for SAP's.
Stash is great for files in git, but it sucks that it leaves new unadded files in their place which end up fucking up things when I have to switch between tasks all of the time. Inevitably I will either check-in something I didn't mean to, or to workaround it I'll just clone in a diff directory.
Git really needs something that can leave .gitignore defined files in place while stashing everything else, maybe via a command with a new name like "tuck".
> if you want to run your code in a browser, there's no alternative.
^^^^ YES. Although:
1. there was Java in the browser until recently when the Government said not to use it. Eh, it was dead anyway (in the browser at least- very few new projects using it).
2. there are those things called Flash/Flex/Air/etc. that Jobs killed when Apple wouldn't support them- they still live too all over the place though.
3. HTML 5- it's not just for breakfast anymore.
4. Javascript isn't just there because it is the only thing- morons at Google, etc. helped make faster JS compilers/interpreters. How is another scripting language going to erupt if they keep making the bad one faster. It's like PhP all over. Bastards.
Now back to the post to comment on just one thing:
> Just take 10 minutes and read the documentation! 10 minutes!
I was with it and then I read that and thought, "That's bullshit. Total bullshit." So #1 magic JS MVC framework? AngularJS. AngularJS documentation? Yes it has it... but even though I understand it, when something goes wrong, it is not RTFM, it's TFM: Too Fucking Magic. Batarang doesn't help when things aren't wired correctly, and when it does, it is not written for the beginner. EmberJS? EmberJS has only a community of hardcore Rails devs and Sproutcore people that didn't care it got renamed twice (sproutcore->amber.js->EmberJS) and DHH won't embrace it, so it's is F.U.C.K'd- even one of its big time proponents admitted it would be years before it is ready: