[Ksummit-2012-discuss] [ATTEND] kernel core dump and "dying breath"

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Jun 25 17:12:48 UTC 2012


On 06/25/2012 08:02 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 07:57:50AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>> Yes, this is the problem... the QR spec allows for large symbols,
>> but unless you can find at least *one* decoder which can *reliably*
>> decode large symbols photographed under non-ideal circumstances this
>> is all academic.
> 
> It doesn't have to be super-reliable. Just have the user keep taking 
> pictures until their app is able to decode it. Way better than having 
> the decoder server-side.
> 

I think it makes much more sense to have the decoder server-side.

There are two reasons for it:

1. *one* code base!

I can tell you just how bad a lot of the QR decoder software running on
smartphones are -- because I have tried them.

2. if the decode doesn't work, you have the picture server side, and you
can perhaps improve the software and collect it as "a hard to decode
picture" and use it as a regression test.

This is similar to the reason Hot Line memos were always sent in the
language of the originator: avoid information loss due to translation.

	-hpa



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