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The challenges discussed by the OP apply to any large-scale complex project and are not limited to developing in Meteor. True, some are specific to Meteor (besides the challenges that go with all NoSQL architectures), as is the case with any tech stack. IMO it’s quite unfair to obsess about the cons only (especially if they are the kind of “problems” you can’t tackle), and to take the pros for granted.

Routing in Meteor, for one, is trivial (esp. with Flow Router). Subscription management and caching are solvable problems too (esp. if you refrain from doing subscriptions during routing, but instead declare your dependencies where you are really are dependent on your data: in the UI components).

What’s the problem with using NPM packages inside Meteor, exactly? The fact that you must write a single additional line in a package? Well, if you’re not used to organize your code in re-usable Meteor packages, then, I guess, it’s more your problem, than it is a problem with Meteor.

Meteor does not scale well? How is that? Any Meteor app can scale, as can every application that has been set up with a well engineered architecture: implement you logic in micro-services and your Meteor app will scale smoothly, horizontally, until your database (and not your app layer, that is!) becomes the bottleneck.

Most of the comments here, seem to emanate from me the degree of freedom that comes with Meteor (platform vs. framework). If you can’t architect, then, obviously, Meteor won’t save your day and do your engineering for you.

I put up some slides with Meteor best-practices for building large-scale apps: http://meteor.redandivory.com/ The presentation is almost two years old, but most of the guidelines still hold.

tl;dr — It’s not the framework’s job to do your architecting. Don’t blame the tool if you don’t read the manual.
Exactly - good entrepreneurs/companies can raise money and hire employees in any capital climate. It's the companies that lack basic building blocks, like a mission that resonates with employees on a non-financial level and sustainable sources of revenue, that will go under.

Square is a great example of a company that people joined for all the wrong reasons. Not only are they incredibly unfocused when it comes to their mission, products and customer base, but the people joining it seemed to be doing so out of a mercenary instinct triggered by an expectation that Jack's second company would of course be a hit.
Some need to uphold the concept of "structural" racism.
Unfortunately pesky non-whites stand in the way of that when it comes to engineering.

So extreme measures are necessary...

0 Claim Silicon Valley is racist, because racial minorities are not hired.

1 Claim that Chinese and Indians are not minorities.

2 Claim that structural racism has "white washed" the Chinese and Indians in Silicon Valley [0]

The funny thing is, the white washing is conducted by the same group as it starts with the sentence "minorities aren't hired"
When you live amongst the inherent Marxists as long as I have, you tend to figure out their patterns.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10945241
The article mentions Bepo as an alternative.

http://ccm.net/faq/32759-bepo-a-keyboard-layout-optimized-fo... says it is optimized for "typing French and programming languages".

Looking at the layout, it seems all programming punctuation is accessible via either Shift or AltGr, so only one modifier.
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> Think like that and you'll fail to understand why it's the same price to deliver a letter from Manhattan to LA as it is from Manhattan to Manhattan.

Um, they're the same price because it's mandated to be such by law. Go ask a company whose prices aren't set by the government, like UPS or FedEx, and they'll quote you very different prices for those different services.

As for the rest, if the cost of additional items is near zero then why is it a prove that the pricing incentivizes large volumes sent to the USA?
This would be great for an email marketing campaign. You could probably get a lot of people to refer their friends just for the opportunity to see some cool animation or graphics.
although I empathize, often having to go through the same sort of thing myself, whenever it happens to me or someone else I can't help but think of a day, many years ago, when I showed a friend (who had just finished making his kickass table-based with javascript stuff happening site) how the new-fangled css worked and he shouted "That is the problem with this industry! You always have to learn new stuff!"
We develop a product image search website. You can search the similar products in Amazon or Walmart with uploading an image or submitting an image URL. Would you please try this service?
Affirmative action is a failure; it's nothing but a form of welfare.

Failure from what vantage point? If you want to keep society stable and peaceful, some degree of welfare is probably necessary, for otherwise, those that imagine themselves to be wronged might just band together and violently take what they think has been denied to them.
That's why I said "try". And I'm not saying that French are less racist than American, there definitely is some discrimination going.

I was more talking about cultural assimilation, I think a black american feels a lot more like he belongs to "the black community" as a french black does.
On AWS Linux is the dom0 OS on Xen (I don't know of any other CPs who are different, unless you get a dedicated host), so the same is true of unikernels right now as well, not of docker though, as they have a containers product now. So...
I think it also depends if the Asians or Indians have an accent or not. If they were born here, they fit in better and are classified as "white".
Repeat of the DotCom bubble, a few startups make it big then everyone and their aunt tries to emulate it with slight variations or solutions to a problems that don't exist. This app bubble is very pregnant and about to deliver something awful.
Less than 1% of the wealth created since 2000 has gone to the poorest 50%
Because modern racism doesn't necessarily parade itself out in the open. There are subtleties to a lot of the actions that people will take, and like the parent said, you don't know the line between racism and man's general inhumanity towards man.

I agree that no one should assume racism right out of the gate. I admit to being guilty of this action before. The line between cliques facing inward and people snubbing you due to race is absurdly blurry. It doesn't help when the entire group happens to be white. Then you start this internal dialogue trying to get to the bottom.

Are these guys just really clique-ish to the point where everyone else is an outcast? Am I doing that weird thing where I have a scowl on my face all day? Did I say something that was misconstrued? Are they just racist pricks? Wait, am I just an asshole?

This isn't to say that all who socialize with you are racist. I think your last line is a very important consideration in moments of self-reflection.
This is a complete over-simplification of the news media. White-washing everything as propaganda is juvenile. The Huffington Post (a private entity) is a news aggregation service that also produces some op-ed pieces. It editorializes news that other outlets have produced and provides its own opinionated analysis. This is not what NPR does. The WSJ produces both traditional news as well as provides opinion based editorials. Again, you are conflating traditional news media and with opinion based info-tainment.
That's just the minimum required acceleration to hit Earth escape velocity (at the peak of that mountain) with a track of that length.

If you're going to build a megastructure like this, you might as well make it capable of launching manned vehicles. If your typical payload can handle 1000 g, you wouldn't need anywhere near that length of track. You would only need 3 km or so, I think.

A 3 km long coilgun is possible with today's technology.
You call it collapse, I call it normalization.
I'd assume they are, but this type of app wouldn't be unexpected from Apple. I'd guess they talked with a lot of people who were using Voice Memos to record music ideas because it's easier to jot something down there than in Garageband. That likely drove the decision more than what else is in the AppStore.

This fills a hole in Apple's musicians' offerings. Garageband is a nice dropdown from Logic, but I definitely think there was room for something between Garageband and Voice Memos. This fills that hole.
I agree that Javascript web applications have a place. The problem is that the pendulum has swung too far, and folks are using Javascript everywhere. Static content generation on the client side, rendering non-interactive content, on the backend, in the build process, as a generic scripting language... the list goes on.

We're watching programming and design concepts which played out back with Windows 95 being hailed as "the future of programming". We're being told "worse is better" as Javascript is being used to turn our computers against their users by serving as a vector for malware, ads, and bots.

It's a mess, and it's going to take pushes from the far side of the pendulum's swing to bring it back to a sane place. If the pendulum was actually stalled too far towards "server side only", I'd agree that "server side only" articles would be too much - but we're not there.

> We can only improve the user experience with the front-end technologies we have.

No, we are more than capable of degrading the user experience with the front end technologies we have. There's a lot of proof of that on the web today. Delayed full page ads, pop-overs for every third word, hijacked scrollbars, malware installs...
How do you know they're mediocre coders? The article makes zero mention of any coding ability, aside from the fact that some of them were having a hard time locking down offers from places like Google and Facebook. Your biases are applying traits to these kids, all of whom you've never met or had any kind of conversation with.

This entire post is the biggest affirmation of "twice the work" if I've ever seen it.
Phoenix is still growing and the state of Arizona will benefit from the changes in California.
That is not at all what that article says. From your link:

“Passive smoking has many downstream health effects—asthma, upper respiratory infections, other pulmonary diseases, cardiovascular disease—but only borderline increased risk of lung cancer,” said Patel.

...So does secondhand smoke cause lung cancer or not? “We can’t say it’s not a risk factor,” said Wang. ...“It’s hard to say anything conclusive with such small numbers,” said Wakelee.

...Moreover, of the nearly 40,000 nonsmokers in the WHI-OS, only about 4,000 reported no exposure to cigarette smoke. “That means almost everybody had passive-smoking exposure,” said Wakelee, “so it’s very hard to say that that exposure is causing the problem—it’s hard to tease out a difference.

“We don’t want people to conclude that passive smoking has no effect on lung cancer,” she said. “We think the message is, this analysis doesn’t tell us what the risk is, or even if there is a risk.”
Thanks for the comment and I hope with your diagnosis comes some comfort (I am also 33). There's a saying that I think is worth repeating here: "If you've met one person with Autism, you've met one person with Autism". Really is hard to generalize in this population.

My statement is really geared toward the parents who suspect something but are either scared or waiting for things to change on their own. I just want them to know that it's not a huge burden to go speak with a professional and it may make a big impact. I didn't mean for it to sound as if not doing so would condemn you child... I just mean that it's a small investment (getting checked) with a potentially big payoff (early therapy).
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I would say the main problem with French is that they really do not like to speak any other language than French. It is quite common that, for example, during the lunch with international participation and a French majority the conversation will start in English but then very quickly slip into French and then foreigners are lost.

It has also happened to me, when speaking English or being in non-french speaking groups, to have drive-by strangers coming up and yelling at us to speak French.
Given this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn#Working_conditions I'm disappointed they're in a position to take over anything.
Yes, my comment also wasn't meant as a disprove of something you wrote, I just wanted to add the big picture.

Edit: I guess the point I'm trying to make: Switzerland is not all that different from the US (on a small scale), it just combines a moderate amount of corporate liberties with enough personal liberties to strike a good balance. In many ways it's like the Libertarian's small government, locally organized model, it just adds enough social and health insurance safety nets and a good public infrastructure on top. Think every county having their own tax law, school system, road network etc.
Adding the instructions to the display might improve user experience and make for an interesting design problem.
> The culture ministry has commissioned Paris-based consultancy AFNOR to draw up a list of recommendations by the summer.

Yeah, as usual some minister gave money to business owned by a friend or family member for useless study. A french classic. And of course, impossible to know how much this study cost the tax payers ... I don't believe this kind of matter should be a priority of the culture ministry.
I agree. Finn is like the new Jar Jar
I imagine pacification is not the goal of most affirmative action proponents.
It is an issue but a complex one. It's not like the whole country decided to put all Muslims there and never give them a job or education.

And you should know they are plenty Muslims (and/or Arabs) programmers coming from the suburbs and having that coveted middle-class life, I worked and have worked with many.
I would be very surprised if there were any pension funds out there with such heavy VC allocations to the point where a downturn would encourage a federal bailout. Do you know of any?
I know the Unicorn market is making a massive pull back, and about time. What is happening to the Valley valuations and number of deals completed?

I'm curious on if this has any effect on seed companies with valuations at $4m to $6m pre in valuations or number of deals funded?

Is this only impacting unicorns (which I don't care about)?
It would be implausible for vaping to not be less harmful than smoking. And harm reduction is good! But that's a far cry from "vaping is 'safe'".
(lol) Yeah, I recognize how quixotic and annoying I can be about the whole thing: I certainly deserve parody. I'm a lone developer up in Sacramento trying to compete for mindshare with Facebook and Google. It's ridiculous and extremely funny.

Thanks for being fair-minded about it. :)
Mootools is not an ancestor of jQuery, it actually was released after jQuery (by a few days).

From what I recall, the success of jQuery was not because it allowed to do more things. It was mainly because developers by then considered javascript as a lower citizen language and wanted to do frontend stuff without having to learn javascript - and jQuery allowed just that.

For (the few) javascript lovers, jQuery main advantage was to be a big decorator, not extending any native, which guaranteed there will be no conflict with other libraries when adding jQuery in a page (quite ironic, when you see how all libraries expect jQuery may be present in the page, nowadays).
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Didn't they ironically misappropriate a term to unambiguously describe this? Caucasian.
White women are the biggest beneficiaries of AA http://www.timwise.org/1998/09/is-sisterhood-conditional-whi...
The law still treats forced consent as consent when it is in the laws favor.
2017 Audi R8 is priced as much as a house in USA
The usual comment we hear on usage of this is that OSH equipment like a simple hammer would have to present a disclaimer such as "Can be fatal if used wrongly -- bashing one's head with this device may prove dangerous" - but doesn't bring a lot to the debate.

That being said, open source medical hardware is quite a new field, and lot of aspects need to be matured.
Oliver Samwer, while of course a controversial person, correctly points out that usually ideas are cheap. Execution, however, is where things get real and therefor hard. I tend to think that this is true more often than not.
Probably because it's totally asinine to say to someone "Hey you're black, come work for us!"

If you're suggesting that African American Computer Science majors should all get hired immediately out of school so that Google can increase its count from 1.0% to 1.02%, it doesn't work like that.

Two things in this discussion actually matter if you want to affect meaningful change:

1. The racial makeup of graduating Computer Science majors compared to the makeup of the US population. If only 2% of graduating CS majors are from a race that makes up 13% of the US population, you will never have anything approaching proportional representation.

2. The racial makeup of applicants compared to the makeup of those applicants extended offers. This is really the step where, if there are company-level systemic issues around race, they will show up. If 10% of your applicants are a given race but 1% are extended offers there might actually be an issue. This is much harder to determine because not only is it very hard to get the data, but you need a sufficient number of applications to get meaningful results. If you only get 100 resumes a year for a dozen positions, you won't get anything useful here.
> Why do people still smoke?

They're addicted.
Racism is a very real thing. Look at the way blacks get treated by the cops.

Being the middle aged "ethnic white" in the Northeast I am not only submissive to cops, but I look like them -- none of my family are college professors but a lot of them work in various branches of law enforcement.

I know their point of view is not the only point of view, but I understand it enough that I come across as somebody who understands their point of view so I have a hard time getting tickets and usually get off with a warning.

For instance I was speeding in a residential zone and the officer got a clear picture of somebody who wouldn't like people driving fast in his residential neighborhood, not somebody who has a favorite residential neighborhood to practice Japanese street racing.
I imagine such tunnel needs vertical vents every x meters or there would be funny air compression effects or rarified air issues?
Sure. Isn't it the case that relatively few of those folks are successful, even though there absolutely are those who succeed spectacularly?

That seems analogous to what's being claimed here: that the deck is stacked against minority applicants, not that it's impossible for them to be successful (and certainly there are quite a few who are successful).
>It think refusal case is called "Implied Consent" -- you consented to it already by getting into the car and driving on public roads.

If she hadn't wanted it, why did she wear that in public?

The very notion of 'implied consent' shows how far our legal system has fallen.
They tax the stupid. A lot of people of lower intellect tend to be poorer (not all, obviously).
That is interesting and I haven't seen any mention of it other than your comment. Don't suppose you could point me to more information?

Edit: Ah, looks like it probably didn't make the news because the President of the SFC didn't want to comment on it and the details were murky: https://lwn.net/Articles/665855/
Well said. There are people reviewing the papers, who are in a position to determine if the work is correct, who are enthusiastic about this.
*egregious

Anyway "intuitive" is not a top priority if you're designing for power users.
> In the United States, and nearly every other country, smoking is more common among the less wealthy and less educated. In the United States, 26.3% of people in poverty smoke compared to 15.2% for the rest of the population. College graduates are almost a third as likely to smoke as those who did not attend college. Because of this difference in smoking prevalence, Americans from the bottom third in household income spend nearly twenty times more on cigarettes as a proportion of their income than those from the top third.

What a strange statistic! It's conflating the difference in cigarette spend and the difference in the incomes of top and bottom thirds to give us a meaningless number.
Too bad most laptops I can find online in Europe are QWERTZ. The only store I found that delivers abroad and has some decent notebooks is amazon.co.uk but I'd prefer something in euro.
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Maybe a bit off topic, but I couldn't find any info on the origin of the name "Molly". Am I guessing correctly that it has something to do with this[1] anecdote?

[1]: http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/M/molly-guard.html
That's true, but it might be parts of the reason why those who accept it, accept it.

If you think about the invention of the welfare state by (to simplify matters greatly) Bismarck, then this was quite explicitly to defang the socialist movements that were threating the established social order of his time, and did manage to set the world aflame with the Russian Revolution.
It's not stretching it at all. It's literally what she said:

> as the only African American on her team, she didn’t feel she had much in common with her colleagues.
> Most web apps I work with daily have highly sophisticated in-browser interactions that are built with JavaScript and can only be built with JavaScript: Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, GMail etc.

Good that GMail is created with GWT. So it doesn't even use JavaScript.
Most people are so afraid of JavaScript that they create hella crazy abstractions (Angularjs [Google], ReactJS [Facebook]) and even then Microsoft and Google trying to avoid JavaScript more and more with Typescript or Dart, they transpile it.
JavaScript maybe is valuable in the web, but not in it's current form. So much quirks that you either spend using a library or fixing browser incompabilites.

A lot of people here said that transpiling will be used a lot in the upcoming years, and I think that also. People will more and more. They want to use Python/Scala/Java/Whatever on both sides.
Also it will reduce complexity by a lot.

Currently your typical webapp has, a server-side technology (even if you are using node), then you have a web frontend which uses at least npm, however mostly you end up with npm, bower, gulp/grunt, webpack and whatever.

> Client-server architectures instead of monoliths

What about small teams? They can't split their monolith since it will become unmanageable. So if they have two apps, frontend/backend it's still a mess to manage these projects with a small team.

> We need to stop excluding JavaScript apps from “the web as it was intended”. JavaScript apps are “of the web”, not just second-class citizens “on the web”.

In my eyes JavaScript should be used where it is needed, but not used in stuff which never should touch it.
JavaScript is still a mess.
This is because it was largely the portfolios supporting middle America that got tarnished by the banking crisis. With the exception of a few notable coastal markets, middle America had the most to lose, which is rather sad, because they were already ravaged enough as it is by the steel mills and manufacturing jobs leaving its many once-prosperous towns and cities.
I guess it is like beauty, which is culturally defined. But, as we're heading towards a monoculture (everybody the same OSX MacBook, and thus the same GUI preferences), design preferences become increasingly similar for everybody.

Not for me, however, as I still prefer the CLI in most cases.
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