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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

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Post by aptwebapps »

amadeus wrote: post #10
gfodor wrote: post #9

Earlier 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.

The site you're looking at isn't Meteor itself, it's a site that happens to use Meteor. And, as it turns out, it was being run in development mode.

Re: Meteor in the Wild: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Reactive Programming

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Post by triplesec »

primigenus wrote: post #15

I'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 wil…

yes, that's very "mid-period facebook" to force invitations on three friends (indeed I'm not sure that Facebook allows that any more for apps because of the annoyances). I'd also like to try it too, otherwise, since it's for both Jewish and Allies, as it were.

Re: Meteor in the Wild: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Reactive Programming

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Post by stuffihavemade »

What are the advantages to using Meteor over Rails/Django/Express, etc., for a dating site? Sure, the client server model is compelling, but you're giving up not only the Ruby/Python ecosystem, but the Node one as well. Did you consider something like Derby.js, which uses npm and is built on express?

Re: Meteor in the Wild: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Reactive Programming

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Post by triplesec »

ibudiallo wrote: post #23

I guess your blog doesn't allow mobile, so I'm out. What's up with under construction just le the mobile user view it.

You could try setting your mobile browser (default, or say Dolphin) to report itself as a desktop client. Workaround, and I usually have one of my mobile browsers set up like this for suboptimal mobile sites.

Re: Meteor in the Wild: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Reactive Programming

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Post by ibudiallo »

triplesec wrote: post #37
ibudiallo wrote: post #23

I guess your blog doesn't allow mobile, so I'm out. What's up with under construction just le the mobile user view it.

You could try setting your mobile browser (default, or say Dolphin) to report itself as a desktop client. Workaround, and I usually have one of my mobile browsers set up like this for suboptimal mobile sites.

You are right, but most of the time, when a website is that complicated to access, it is not worth it.
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