On Tue, 23 Dec 2014 21:05:04 +0000 via Digitalmars-d <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tuesday, 23 December 2014 at 20:36:35 UTC, ketmar via > Digitalmars-d wrote: > > all that cloudy thing is another hype. ;-) > It is hyped, but it is going to grow since businesses can save > money on it. HP's The Machine also appears to be cloud centric. > It is pretty much well established across the board as the future > of computing. i've heard this before. you know, "mainframes will die, personal computers is the future of computing". and now i see "the revenge of mainframes". i bet we'll see another wave of this, this time with "decentralized networks" (nope, "clouds" are not about that). > > ahem... encryption algorithms are platform-independent. and > > your server > > is running on known platform. am i missing something here? > Not a big deal, but I'd rather have the same symmetric encryption > code on all platforms and be sure that the implementation is 100% > compatible with no corner cases. NaCl/libsodium is your friend! ;-) > Having only one option is good enough for a hobby project. Having > only one option when you have signed a contract is a liability. seeing the kind of people using Go and other overhyped things... i'd better go with one C library than with 100 Go libraries. ;-) > > the solution is easy: don't use things that have no C > > libraries. C is "linuga franca" in this case. > If the customer wants a full featured web-forum for support > integrated into his marketing web site... what options do you > actually have? don't work with that customer. that is exactly what we doing: either we do things our way or simply don't take the work. > We are all morons by thinking that morons cannot create great > things... morons can create great things. the trouble is that morons don't know how to use the things they created. ;-)
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