Thank You, Guido

Re:Thank You, Guido by tyingq on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @11:03AM (#21398484)

Interesting in the context of Dropbox, as they ship the client code as obfuscated and encrypted pyc files and a custom runtime that's pretty "clever": https://anvilventures.com/blog/looking-inside-the-box.html

Edit. Yes I get the difference and the reasons they do this. The wordplay crossover (cryptic, clever, etc) was notable to me, and reminded me of the link I posted above.

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Re:Thank You, Guido by _coveredInBees on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @11:27AM (#21398766)

That has zero bearing on the point Guido was making. He is talking about development practices. The client code is not being sent to users for them to develop code and contribute to the Dropbox codebase.

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Re:Thank You, Guido by caseysoftware on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @11:12AM (#21398594)

We're not the intended audience for the code. We're just the consumers.

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Re:Thank You, Guido by jamestenglish on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @11:30AM (#21398809)

Just because the outcome of the code (i.e. obfuscated code) is "clever" doesn't mean that the code that does the obfuscation is clever

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