Constants and Variables 145
Doomporner Michael Snyder via ZH:

The debacle in Iowa is being blamed on a faulty app, and I suppose that we shouldn’t be surprised. After all, just about everything that we put on our phones and computers these days must be constantly “fixed” or “patched” due to endless errors.

Well, it wasn't an error and it wasn't incompetence. That's obvious. The purpose of electronic voting is to enable easier cheating by DNCRNC. Every 'innovation' in US voting, starting with the Electoral College, enables easier cheating. The entire purpose is to prevent actual democracy at all costs. No feedback allowed.

But Snyder is partly right about apps.

In most cases the specific errors are not intentional or criminal.

In all cases the constant creation of errors is intentional and criminal.

As a courseware writer I'm stuck in the middle of this changeover. I don't intend to cheat the students, and the publisher doesn't intend to cheat. We're simply forced by commercial fashion to work with the overall confusion, and we try to handle it as well as we can.

The change from SEPARATE MODULAR desktop computers to the GLOBALIZED world of web-based apps was dramatic.

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When building an EXE for use in Windows, you can count on a consistent set of API rules. The native Win functions are well defined, and the workings of C++ are well defined. Provided you understand both of these rule sets and use them correctly, you can predict what will happen when you write something like

MoveToEx(this->hdc,NewPt.x,NewPt.y,NULL);

When you put all those pieces together into a self-contained EXE, you know it will run on the Win versions that were specified in the rules. If there are problems, you can be 99% sure the problems are your own fault, even though you'll always waste time by blaming Windows first.

In the new world of HTML5 and CSS and SVG and JS, none of those certainties exist. All of those standards are only partly standardized and constantly changing, and you can't count on a package running on all common platforms. If it runs today, a version change by Firefox or Chrome may blow it up tomorrow.

In other words, 'platform-independent' really means 'excruciatingly platform-dependent.'

The platform-makers obviously love this, because they have finally reclaimed the power they lost when independent desktop computers took over.

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It's all about Room 101. Globalism makes it easy to induce chaos in all minds and souls. Modularity protects your mind from chaotizers.

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