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Meteor in the Wild: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Reactive Programming
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Re: Meteor in the Wild: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Reactive Programming
#12How can Meteor be taken seriously with shit like this? This site barely works... Simply hangs with spinning jewish logos...
I posted my own Meteor app to HN the other day and it held up under traffic just fine: http://hnwishlist.com
So don't blame Meteor :)
Re: Meteor in the Wild: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Reactive Programming
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
This could be anything, and be completely unrelated to meteor or related in a way that has no bearing on the claims of the article. He did just launch, after all.
I've had a couple of my sites hit by Hacker News before, it's not that much traffic. But I am perhaps a bit biased, I already think Meteor is a joke of a product.
Most big things start out as jokes. (I don't hold an opinion one way or the other.) But you have to admit they are doing something semi-interesting.
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#14Might be a good idea to at least put This page requires JavaScript on your site. All I see an expanse of white.
The last few lines of the article shed some light on OP's opinion of browsing with JavaScript disabled: "you need to support browsers that don't have JavaScript enabled. ... ok, that last one was sufficiently low-probability that I'll stop there before I start telling you not to use Meteor if your customers gave up their computers in favor of the abacus."
I don't quite understand the whole "I cripple my browser" thing. Like, if you are going to disable javascript, why not CSS, and if you disable both of those... by not disable the renderer and just read the html... or demand people write plain text websites. Javascript seems rather arbitrary...
But I do wonder about the accessibility ramifications of only supporting javascript. Do all browsers support javascript?
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#15I'm excited to try out your dating site given that it's built with Meteor and I'm a fan, but having to sign up three of my female friends to see it first is a buzz kill.
Perhaps you could consider a limited preview account for us HNers that doesn't let us date anyone but does let us check out what you built and sort of inspect things. That will help shine some positive light on Meteor with our crowd, many of whom will likely be unwilling to share an experimental Jewish dating site with their Facebook friends on a whim.
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#16jspot dev here. fixed speed issue with help from Nick Martin from Meteor. Turns out I was running a dev-mode proxy to auto-reload code, but Nick figured out we could bypass it in the nginx config. Should be much faster now.
Re: Meteor in the Wild: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Reactive Programming
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've had a couple of my sites hit by Hacker News before, it's not that much traffic. But I am perhaps a bit biased, I already think Meteor is a joke of a product.
Most big things start out as jokes. (I don't hold an opinion one way or the other.) But you have to admit they are doing something semi-interesting.
I prefer to be interested in things that are ACTUALLY interesting; think Google's Spanner, SpaceX, etc, developed by neckbeards who know what they are doing.
Not some silly NodeJS/MongoDB API.
Re: Meteor in the Wild: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Reactive Programming
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most big things start out as jokes. (I don't hold an opinion one way or the other.) But you have to admit they are doing something semi-interesting.
I prefer to be interested in things that are ACTUALLY interesting; think Google's Spanner, SpaceX, etc, developed by neckbeards who know what they are doing. Not some silly NodeJS/MongoDB API.
It's generally unkind to come in and trash other peoples' work, especially when it's work that is something designed to help make others' jobs easier and is being open sourced.
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#19How can Meteor be taken seriously with shit like this? This site barely works... Simply hangs with spinning jewish logos...
[meteor dev] Ted and Nick found the issue. The site was running in development mode (what you get with "$ meteor run") instead of the direct bundle. That's now fixed.
In development mode, we wrap the whole application inside a monitoring process that includes a proxy server. It's how we support hot code push on a laptop, among other things. But it's not a configuration we intended for production use at scale. We'll think about how to make a clearer recommendation in the docs.
Re: Meteor in the Wild: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Reactive Programming
#20Might be a good idea to at least put This page requires JavaScript on your site. All I see an expanse of white.
I'm running a boilerplate firefox and on first load, I saw the same thing.