The new Google Pay repeats all the same mistakes of Google Allo

Re:The new Google Pay repeats all the same mistakes of Googl... by gumby on Monday March 08, 2021 @11:04AM (#26387137)

> A friend of mine used to say "Is your grandma so senile that she can't type `configure; make; make install`?"

Who writes makefiles such that 'make install' doesn't have 'all' (or whatever the default target is) as a dependency? It's even mean these days not to automatically configure with the default options if no configuration has previously been specified.

Thus grandma should really only have to do the much simpler

    (mkdir /tmp/granny; cd /tmp/granny; curl https://my.example.com/download/latest.gz|tar xfpBz - ; cd * ; make install)

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Re:The new Google Pay repeats all the same mistakes of Googl... by meepmorp on Monday March 08, 2021 @12:23PM (#26388462)

I can't believe grandma is so oblivious to security she'd just blindly download and build a random tarball without manually inspecting the code for backdoors.

How has she made it this far in life?

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Re:The new Google Pay repeats all the same mistakes of Googl... by gumby on Monday March 08, 2021 @03:35PM (#26391154)

Damn thing was probably written in Ruby and she can't keep up with the times. Be kind, and only send her links to packages in something simpler like C++ or CommonLisp.

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Re:The new Google Pay repeats all the same mistakes of Googl... by meepmorp on Monday March 08, 2021 @05:03PM (#26392274)

granny misses the simplicity and readability of COBOL

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