"browser standards compliance is so much better"

Not even. Closest one to any sort of compliance is Chrome, which is a multi-process steaming hunk of garbage. It can do HTML5 and WebGL properly.

FireFox? Trying to log into my in-development game using the web interface, (again, pure HTML5 and WebGL) it fucking horks. What's sad is that IE8 works better for my web game than the latest version of FireFox.

Opera? Give me a fucking break.

"some developers distrust its use in larger projects because (some say) it ultimately leads to breakage-prone code that's harder to maintain."

Most likely because they write shit bloated code in the first place.

Meanwhile, jQuery + SQLite + MariaDB connector, I've got my own personal intelligent porn recommendation/scraper/indexer site that runs through a few million images and renders my requested search results in under a tenth of a second.

So odds are, it's those developers talking about breakage-prone code that are the crap devs, anyways.

Avira sucks.

Common sense with yearly upgrades.

Haven't been compromised since Win2K/BLASTER days.

Meanwhile, I can force-uninstall Avira, because its own protection mechanisms are ABSOLUTE ASS.

You're the shill. Take Avira's dick out of your mouth for a minute. Even NOD32 kicks the shit out of Avira.

Dude, Canada's maple whiskey is some of the best shit on the planet.

http://www.saq.com/page/en/saq...

If you think otherwise, you're sorely mistaken.

That's coming from a BAD alcoholic with two+ decades of experience tasting alcohols from around the world.

You do not need to be driving. You do not need HUDs to tell you that the red sign up ahead is a stop sign. Nor do you need some accident early-warning system - if you WATCHED THE FUCKING ROAD you'd likely see the accident scene before getting to it (some locations/obstructions of scenery may give varying results.)

And wait for your night vision to get completely turned to ass when they start introducing these HUDs in different colors as a fashion statement. Anything other than red - you're much more likely to crash at night because your night vision is being fucked with.

HUDs MAKE ZERO SENSE IN TYPICAL CIVILIAN APPLICATIONS.

Keep that shit in the military where it belongs.

Apparently since the mods have zero critical thinking ability, I'll just have to answer.

We have EMULATORS.

Transpilers are FUCKING WORTHLESS in the face of emulation.

"On a very closely related thought this same sort of idea can be used to translate software so that what ran on older legacy platforms or incompatible platforms can automatically be able to run on newer hardware"

Transpilers have existed for ages.

" We need this in a big way."

There's a reason transpilers aren't in use today despite existing - I'll leave that up to you and some deeper critical thinking than what you currently display.

Yea? Several programs I've written do exactly that. There are game dev platforms that can put everything, database included, inside the executable upon compiling.

Ever made a self-extracting .EXE file? If you did it on a piece of software with a database attached - THAT DATABASE IS STORED IN THE EXECUTABLE.

-1 for not knowing marine batteries mean for marine vessels - you know - REGULAR BOATS that would be in port at a MARINA.

I'm not going to say that I make sense. I'm just parroting my personal experiences in managing and coding various projects.

It only makes sense to those that are not afraid to admit that they are wrong and have encountered this same problem of which I speak.

I thank you for the praise, however! It is rare I see MOB programming get any credit of any sort.

It has its base here. It is not an American company.

If Microsoft has a base in Ireland, does it suddenly become an Irish company?

Your logic fails very hard. Try again, JIDF shill.

"How could this possible be better than using git and having a sane version history."

For starters, we have really good collaboration. Someone could be writing code, someone else notices fucked indentation or syntax, an can fix it on the fly while explaining what's going on.

"And if you are what possible advantage is there for everyone logging into one system - and you being local"

Most of my devs are in other countries. Waiting for everyone to do their thing, submit, and have to dig through shit to see what does and does not work eats too much time. Time zones are a fucker like that.
To boot, my system is the server system, so having me be local and able to test live is what makes things run smoothly.

The only one piece of documentation we need is the design documentation. Everything else is a waste of fucking time, especially when a new client upgrade could force us to re-write half the code base in the first place (like last night's upgrade forced us to have to scrap and re-write half of the initial framework.) As long as we have that design documentation, if shit changes, we still know what needs to be done and can do it, instead of having to go looking back through code and go "Okay, here can we make changes here?" That's sloppy as shit and leads to security problems.

" I guess we're still calling it a "jetpack" even though it's just using turbofans?"

Well, what else would you call JETS of air?

"Mobs don't really have a place in intellectual endeavours, and programming is one of those."

Programing isn't an intellectual endeavor in the first place. It's MATH, shit you should know once your ass gets out of high school.

Optimization is an intellectual endeavor. And at that point, it's best to have *ONE* person doing that.

However, I practice a different form.

1. All programming, compiling, testing, and debugging happens on one system.

2. Everyone logs into that system (I remain local at that system) and we all start up a voice conference.

3. Everyone is able to write up code, sling it straight to me where I can immediately compile and test, and everyone gets to see the results and hear my experiences with the software as it runs.

I'm currently working on a little 2D version of SecondLife. Pair programming sucks. Mob moved us from code updates every week and shit progress to multiple updates per day and much much better progress.