He who dies with the most cash wins? It's definitely a nice position to be in but money obviously doesn't think up new products.
What was the last true innovation from Apple? I claim it was the iPod. The miniaturization of music. Everything since the iPod has been purely derivative of that miniaturization theme.
They've ridden the "Miniaturize all the things" wave hard (and successfully) by adding more features like accelerometers, GPS, faster chips, more colors, etc. to keep the fanboys horny but nobody has been really impressed with a new iDevice for quite some time. Apple is getting stale.
Apple needs a new hardware win that shows that they haven't exhausted their idea bank AND that they still have the marketing savvy to make people want what they've got.
Apple has NEVER been a software company. They are definitely struggling if Swift is the best new things they could come up with.
One cool thing about all of Meteor's magic is that it's quite understandable. Chris Mather's EventedMind and Arunoda's MeteorHacks are good resources for looking behind that curtain.
In my experience, once the magic becomes more of an understanding of the Meteor-y way of doing things, then debugging and maintaining isn't any harder than a more traditional architecture.
I wouldn't say that Meteor is a suitable framework for any type of app, but I would say its design is suitable for a lot more than just prototyping and games (with a pre-1.0 caveat).
I got a data breach notification saying my data was compromised and here's your free monitoring blah blah blah. The thing is, I haven't physically been into a Target for over two years if memory serves, and last time I ordered online from Target was well before that.
I wonder if there's more that hasn't hit the news, or if Target figured better safe than sorry on the notifications.
While it would be trivially easy to port the Meteor installer to npm, since Meteor doesn't require node or npm to be installed, it would be a step backward to do so.
Meteor is built against specific node and npm versions and the install script installs the necessary node binaries.
Considering what Meteor brings a developer, getting hung up on the install method is missing the big picture.
Demeteorizer is a offensively named script that automatically builds a package.json for you. It doesn't make Meteor apps lighter weight or anything like that. It simply makes it easier for you to install the requisite npm dependencies.
It wasn't so much about the response time, but more like they just did not care about my request.
There Debian image is not a standard image and I wanted to know what they had done so that I did not get caught by another 'difference' and they said that they did not have any documentation on what they had changed but I was free to change it to be however I wanted.
The problem with this is that if you use Vagrant or any other automated deployment anywhere else, you will either have to make changes to your build script to account for the changes they made or make your images to be like theirs are.
The entire process is rather busted - they should just use standard images or let me upload my own.
Their response was not at all feeling or understanding.
I have 1 $40 instance and will use it until all my credit is done but will not be returning.
