You can't "defend" your code, period. Not front-end code at least. Go ahead and minify and obfuscate it all you want (or add domain or date protections) ... anyone with minimal knowledge and a little effort will walk right around that in no time...
I do not agree completely with "anyone with minimal knowledge and little effort". That is the true with some obfuscators, basically because they suck.
However, I dont think that we should put them all in the same bag. Consider this example for instance:
http://jsfiddle.net/JScrambler/5ujp3/
It has anti-tampering and other stuff in it.
I REALLY don't think it requires minimal knowledge and little effort to hack it.
Firstly, im not saying this to be a dick... but it sounds dickish... sorry.
What it comes down to, is that its foolish to rely on a business that lives entirely in someone else's garden... if google play just shut down tomorrow (i know, not likely, but you never know with the way patent trolls are these days) then you'd be just as screwed... if you base your livelihood on a business you own that is in and of itself reliant on a third party, you're not going to have much stability.
There are a lot of businesses based on iOS/Mac app stores, Play Store, Amazon's EC2 infrastructure, Amazon's seller marketplace, eBay/PayPal, reselling (e.g. domains, hosting, etc), which won't meet your criteria.
Now let's look at non-digital goods: All new car dealerships, every shop in rental space (which is almost all of them), all airlines, in fact all airport-located businesses, government contractors, all franchises, et al.
So what businesses exist which aren't reliant on a third party? If we ignore government as a "third party," there still aren't very many. Most businesses rely in some part or a large part on a third party.
Because negativity is a bane on scientific progress.
People who claim something can't be done are foolish. Claiming a negative - claiming something you can't prove - is anti-intellectual at best, downright ignorant at worst.
There is no need to claim something can't be done. It serves absolutely no purpose. The only possible outcome that negativity can have is to stop someone from trying, when really - thats the heart of scientific discovery. We can't fly, we can't break the sound barrier, we can't we can't we can't.
History is full of people who claim we can't. But history forgets those people, and remembers the ones who actually did.
Watch them come to work, note the care they drive. Follow them home, note the house they live in. I've yet to see a dr in the US come to work in a civic, or live in a modest house...
When I worked on an ambulance, I'd be at the hospital several times a day - in the ER doctor lot, a sampling of the cars:
- multiple Tesla S's
- 3 Porsche Cayenne
- 2 Audi S5s
- several Escalades
Whilst there are two sides to the story, let's not pretend that doctors live hopeless lives, saddled with a lifetime of crippling student loan debt, barely able to keep their heads above water to selflessly help people.
There is a medical group in Kansas/Indiana, I think, that was trialling the novel idea of "fixed price surgery"... looking at right on $100K for cardiac bypass.
Me? To look at my explanation of benefits, the billing for my kidney stone last year peaked at over $60K.
Did you see the age of those same doctors? Virtually guaranteed none of them were < 40.
A fair calculation of salary is some evaluation of (years of training required * intrinsic skill required * benefit to society). If you accept that, then doctors are surely near the top.
The salaries are high but the fact that a surgery costs $34,000, most of it doesn't go to the Doctor. I'm sure they get a lot, but the hospital needs its cut, the insurance need it's cut, etc.
OMFG is not a standard abbreviation. If you are making a tool that can be used worldwide, best to stick with words and slangs that are universally known.
Moreso, best to stick with terms that are acceptable to people of all cultures and backgrounds. The word 'fucking' may be a light-hearted slang to a 20 year old american, but it may just be offensive to someone older living in the UAE.
Professionalism, though not perfect, does in fact help in making people from various background agree and understand good ideas by being austere, simple and well-defined.
address bar of [? alignlib.py] searches for alignlib.py ... not sure if this is intentional or just htat google drops special chars, but it works 100% of the time most of the time.
