Do we really think Javascript is exotic? Hasn't it proved itself over many years now?
That doesn't mean it can't have issues like anything else. And because of the massive scale of the language you'll see a lot of shit. It's a language and ecosystem like anything else - it's what you do with it that matters.
Your comment led me to figuring out if Second Life is still really a thing. And I can't really figure it out. Apparently Linden Lab has over 200 employees so there must be some revenue on it. But is the user base growing, and how big is it?
We wanted to see how easy it was to build "native" apps with html/css/javascript today using atom-shell. And it turns out that it's actually quite easy.
A feature we missed from VLC was that you could send video to Chromecast. That feature is now in Playback.
The idea is to showcase how a large dataset is pretty good at being shared without having central servers. Here using bittorrent.
mafintosh showed how wikipedia could be shared without a central server(s), and instead rely on a network of peers.
subtack did something similar, peermaps, which is a showcase on how you can share geo data over bittorrent. Imagine a google maps without a google servers. https://github.com/substack/peermaps
Of course there's many unsolved questions, like "how do you update?", "how do you manage the data?", etc. But the examples are pretty solid.
I would think that looking at patterns on the CPU level is almost impossible. The overhead would be enormous.
For instance if you look for a magic number. Instead of putting two numbers on the stack, and perform an addition you now have to have a conditional jump before the addition.
Maybe I'm wrong, but at least I think it would be virtually impossible.
Agreed. But the discussion here on Github is pretty good and tells us that it's happened to quite a lot of people. So the headline might be a bit sensational, but it's a real problem.
I don't think people will be upset to get an "WARNING: You might have committed a secret" if it's a negative.
You might be right if it really is a ton, but then you work on your algorithm. I think the problem is so big that there really do need to be warnings for these kind of issues.
As a Danish person I was also confused about that when I first read it. I think it's a misuse of the word "warrant", and more has to do with whether or not they've charged him (I think).
The extension requires login to Ge.tt (it's free). And the Gmail login goes through the normal Google login.
What the extension does is to add a button to the page and when you click that files are uploaded to Ge.tt and a link is added to your email body. There's no exchange of any Google login needed.
That doesn't mean it can't have issues like anything else. And because of the massive scale of the language you'll see a lot of shit. It's a language and ecosystem like anything else - it's what you do with it that matters.