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01-03-2016 , 06:19 PM

#21726

Loki

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Either you're misunderstanding or I never thought about it from that perspective.

Say FileZilla offers binaries or an exe. I want to run the program. Why download and compile the binaries if I can just run an exe?

Thinking about it purely from a user point of view, but maybe that's not who binaries are targeted at.

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01-03-2016 , 07:43 PM

#21727

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centurion

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I think in the gentoo distribution of linux you compile everything yourself. The benefits are you can pass flags and set options and there are probably scripts that optimize the build for your specific machine.

I have a vague memory of compiling vim with some flag to get some plugin to work. I compiled nodejs on a free ec2 instance once and it took like 3 hours because of the limits they imposed on the free server.

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01-03-2016 , 08:30 PM

#21728

Loki

binary duo

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That sounds horrible.

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01-03-2016 , 10:21 PM

#21729

SmileyEH

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Noodle Wazlib

That sounds horrible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source

"Generally, open source refers to a computer program in which the source code is available to the general public for use and/or modification from its original design."

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01-03-2016 , 10:47 PM

#21730

just_grindin

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Quote:

Originally Posted by arnolds

I never really understood this. Presumably, the attacker wuold need to be able to run code on the router itself, right? Do routers provide execution environments? Seems like a pretty dangerous feature to allow arbitrary code to be executed on the router.

Well I'm not sure what you mean. A router at its heart is a specialized computer. The flaws take advantage of being able to execute arbitrary code on this specialized pc.

Even if that weren't the case routers execute other code for administration that likely runs on a more general computer separate from the asic which would allow for execution of code. I could be wrong though, my level of knowledge of the construction and operation of routers is limited.

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01-03-2016 , 11:23 PM

#21731

arnolds

stranger

Join Date: Apr 2014 Posts: 12

Quote:

Originally Posted by just_grindin

I guess it's just my lack of knowledge wrt routers or probably just specialized computers. Didn't know it was possible to start up something like a terminal or some other method to execute code. I assumed that through compromising the router, attackers gain access to some computer on the network

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01-04-2016 , 02:24 AM

#21732

Barrin6

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Originally Posted by Noodle Wazlib

I love how you used FileZilla as an example considering how it is bundled with adware when downloading from Sourceforge.

From a user's standpoint, there is very little point in compiling the binaries yourself. For some programs, compiling can take hours like the firefox browser. The only reason I can think of, from the user's point of view is that the user wants the bleeding edge version of some open source software, where no binaries are available. But even then, that's rare, since most open source orgs have a nightly binary that you could download.

Unless you are a developer, there's very little reason to compile it yourself.

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01-04-2016 , 03:14 AM

#21733

_dave_

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Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,154

Quote:

Originally Posted by Noodle Wazlib

Say FileZilla offers binaries or an exe.

Also a nitpick - an .exe is a binary. If you're seeing both "binaries or .exe", then that's binaries for other OS. and a binary for windows (.exe). What you mean is "offering binaries or source", I should think.

And yeah, you would download the source and compile it if you are a developer and wanted to make edits mostly. You may download the binary to run it and download the source just to look, too. Or (gentoo style) you may be trying to find performance improvements compiling your own binaries specific to your system. Maybe you're a security researcher and want to check a compile of the source actually outputs the same binary they claim it does (there are indeed some people who sift through every line of the source code!).

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01-04-2016 , 09:27 AM

#21734

just_grindin

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Quote:

Originally Posted by arnolds

It looks like mostly used for ddos and scanning for other routers to infect so mostly just leveraging what routers already do well but for malicious purposes:

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/01/l...-home-routers/

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01-05-2016 , 07:31 AM

#21735

ChrisV

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Article on Angular 2 vs React

The author prefers React, clearly. I can definitely see the advantage of syntax checking in JSX, I think that's great. Unmentioned are the advantages of templating in markup (semantic clarity, designers can write the markup, etc).

Couple of quotes from the article I think are important:

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Choosing between Angular and React is like choosing between buying an off-the-shelf computer and building your own with off-the-shelf parts.

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React Embraces the Unix Philosophy.

React is a library. It’s precisely the opposite philosophy of large, comprehensive frameworks like Angular and Ember. So when you select React, you’re free to choose modern best-of-breed libraries that solve your problem best. JavaScript moves fast, and React allows you to swap out small pieces of your application for better libraries instead of waiting around and hoping your framework will innovate.
Unix has stood the test of time. Here’s why:

The philosophy of small, composable, single-purpose tools never goes out of style.

This is what it comes down to, whether this is a blessing or a curse. The example of Unix doesn't seem relevant. Unix is an OS, not a programming language. The current most popular programming language, Java, gained superiority via standardization. Same for C and C++ in their day. Languages that allow infinite customizability - like Common Lisp - tend to lack sufficient prescriptiveness to allow them to become standards.

That said, I'm not sure that React is in that category. The similarity of structure afforded by the Flux architecture may allow it to prevail. Not having written anything in React yet, I'm not exactly an expert.

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01-05-2016 , 07:34 AM

#21736

ChrisV

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Good comment here:

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With React, you typically pull a number of other libraries off the shelf to build a real app. This won’t seem like a big deal to most at first. But give it 5 years or more, and you have to deal with the divergence of the libraries you choose. They will have a different cadence of updates. The integration you do today, won’t work out the same years down the road, and you will need to do integration testing on at least the union of security…

That's the problem. Having freedom of choice on what libraries to use to do stuff seems great when building apps, but it can become a maintainability nightmare.

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01-05-2016 , 07:40 AM

#21737

ChrisV

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btw, I'd say the complaint of most people using Java has not been being straightjacketed into frameworks, but rather the plethora of random architectural stuff that comes and goes. Much like JavaScript. I think that's telling.

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01-05-2016 , 09:39 AM

#21738

clowntable

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Originally Posted by ChrisV

The example of Unix doesn't seem relevant. Unix is an OS, not a programming language.

"The Unix Philosophy" is a standalone phrase independent of the OS imo. You could rename it the "build stuff out of dedicated components that do one thing philosophy" but that's too long. Or I guess "Philosophy of Composability"

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01-05-2016 , 10:31 AM

#21739

daveT

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Reach, Angular, Knockout, etc, are all under 5 years old. I don't think JS has a long-viewed community.

CLOS (Common Lisp Object System) has been pretty much unchanged since the 80s. Lots of reasons Lisp never became the size of Java, C#, etc, but having a plethora of inconsistent, diverting, and poorly maintained libraries is definitely not one of those reasons.

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01-05-2016 , 10:54 AM

#21740

Grue

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Knockout and Angular are from ~2009 IIRC.

I more or less agree with the poster of that article. I do not like abstraction and framework lock. Stuff like this in angular

Code:

<ul>
  <li *ngFor="#hero of heroes">
    {{hero.name}}
  </li>
</ul>

is complete garbage. Are you kidding me? What does this have to do with JavaScript?

My only concern about React is the lack of a 1.0 roadmap and some unfathomably stupid decisions in JSX. I wrote this lovely piece of code recently.

Code:

let reactDoesntAllowMeToPutClassNameLogicInJSXForNoReason = (num) => {
    return `element element${num}`;
};

return _.range(1, 11).map((num) => { 
    return (
        <div key={num} onClick={this.handleClick.bind(this)} className={reactDoesntAllowMeToPutClassNameLogicInJSXForNoReason(num)}>
    );
});

and I have crap like this everywhere. Gee who would have thought you'll need different classes for elements? IDK I still very much enjoy working with React more than any other similar thing. My favorite piece of tooling I've seen in a long time.

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01-05-2016 , 11:38 AM

#21741

gaming_mouse

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Grue,

Not sure I follow your issue. What is that you want to be able to write that React isn't letting you write?

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01-05-2016 , 11:41 AM

#21742

gaming_mouse

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Originally Posted by ChrisV

Isn't the big complaint with Java usually its unnecessary verboseness? The boilerplate that surrounds the simplest things. I assume the support for lambdas is an improvement, but the problem remains in many other ways...

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01-05-2016 , 11:57 AM

#21743

Grue

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Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 5,667

The point is that for unknown reasons JSX doesn't allow escaping inside of html attributes so everything needs to be abstracted to functions such as the above. Its not too bad since its scoped to the render function but still unnecessary. Also dumb is the pointless deviations from html such as "className" "defaultChecked" and so on and also things like unclosed tags are not allowed. Its all being regexed the **** out I'd assume so why bother?

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01-05-2016 , 11:59 AM

#21744

jjshabado

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The big complaint is definitely verboseness.

The library complaint doesn't really resonate with me. Yeah, dependency management totally sucks. But having lots of libraries seems to be a consequence of something popular - and lots of options for lots of features seems better than having only one (or no) options for a particular feature. You can always write stuff yourself if you don't want to maintain many different libraries...

In practice I also don't think "But give it 5 years or more, and you have to deal with the divergence of the libraries you choose" is a frequent problem. Generally, you're either actively working on something and upgrading as you go or the old libraries are fine because nothing is changing.

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01-05-2016 , 12:13 PM

#21745

clowntable

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Originally Posted by gaming_mouse

Too engineered/comiteee/enterprisy I'd say (the verboseness plays into it). I like Java 8 quite a bit and you can actually run fairly lean with Java these days. There's a couple of light weight Flask-like web frameworks that don't require reading 1500 pages of enterprise java beans documentation for example (http://sparkjava.com/ etc.).

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01-05-2016 , 12:33 PM

#21746

fruit snacks

centurion

Join Date: Dec 2015 Posts: 173

Quote:

Originally Posted by Grue

Also dumb is the pointless deviations from html such as "className"

This isn't jsx's fault. The dom named that property className to avoid the use of the word 'class' which is a reserved keyword in javascript.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/...ment/className

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01-05-2016 , 06:52 PM

#21747

SmileyEH

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The point is that for unknown reasons JSX doesn't allow escaping inside of html attributes so everything needs to be abstracted to functions such as the above.

I'm not sure I follow. This is straight out of a course I am taking on Udemy:

Code:

<div className={"content " + (this.state.loaded ? "loaded" : "")}>

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01-05-2016 , 07:49 PM

#21748

daveT

S.A.G.E. Master

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Why is requiring closing tags a bad thing?

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01-05-2016 , 08:04 PM

#21749

Grue

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Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 5,667

Quote:

Originally Posted by SmileyEH

I'm not sure I follow. This is straight out of a course I am taking on Udemy:

Code:

<div className={"content " + (this.state.loaded ? "loaded" : "")}>

Fair enough and you can use IIFEs which is what I should be doing I guess just a little silly. btw I'd be pretty cautious about taking a course now that doesn't use ES2015 (template strings).

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Originally Posted by daveT

Why is requiring closing tags a bad thing?

nevermind I did a little more research and apparently even self closing tags like input just need to have the slash. <input> is not valid in JSX but is perfectly valid HTML5.

And to the "class" keyword thing I don't think thats it - it just throws a react warning. And whats up with "defaultChecked"?

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01-05-2016 , 09:18 PM

#21750

Larry Legend

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Twitter switching to 10k character limit seems like an incredibly good idea at first thought.

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