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by vlasky 5y ago
Jack Smythe returns to visit his brother in "Utopia" - a future Australia where citizens are under constant government surveillance. Privileges are awarded and revoked via a social credit system. The only place where people can sp
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Utopia: Nineteen Eighty-Four with Smartphones, Set in Australia(youtube.com)
8 points by vlasky 5y ago|1 comments
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by vlasky 6y ago
Meteor is alive and well! Since 2015, I have been relying on it to implement a number of SaaS solutions involving real-time location tracking. In 2016, Meteor 1.3 implemented full support for the NPM ecosystem. As a result, people switched
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by vlasky 6y ago
TokuDB is a great storage engine! Online DDL and fast compression are a winning combo. We use it for all our big MySQL tables. It is still available in MySQL 8.0. I really wish Percona would reconsider their decision to deprecate it. After
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by vlasky 7y ago
Grocery CRUD is a CodeIgniter/PHP library that lets you quickly create a CRUD with views. Officially it only supports MySQL but some third-party patches let you use it with other databases. https://www.grocerycrud.com/
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by vlasky 7y ago
Meteor provides pub/sub with a MySQL backend using the atmosphere package vlasky:mysql. It works by following the MySQL binary log and triggering a reactive query based on event conditions specified by the programmer, e.g. a change in
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by vlasky 7y ago
Wrong. This is popular anti-Meteor FUD spread by people who don't know how to use its features properly or have the engineering/computer science background to design a system to be able to manage computational complexity or scalab
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University lowers entry score for female applicants in engineering and IT(theguardian.com)
2 points by vlasky 7y ago|1 comments
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Aussie ISV buys ads to wake up Google support(crn.com.au)
288 points by vlasky 7y ago|126 comments
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by vlasky 8y ago
The Meteor framework has been actively developed ever since it was released and continues to have a broad, enthusiastic user base. Mr Goldstein would have known this if he had visited the Meteor blog ( https://blog.meteor.com&#x2F
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by vlasky 9y ago
Our Meteor webapp designed for real-time vehicle tracking was built in 2015 using Blaze, DDP, Pub/Sub and Iron Router. Today, our webapp continues to work better than ever with the above technologies thanks to the continuous improvemen
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by vlasky 9y ago
For real-time webapps when you need minimum latency updates, Meteor is a dream. IoT, GPS tracking, messaging apps and stockmarket trading apps are all well suited to being implemented in Meteor. DDP is a simple protocol that runs on top of
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by vlasky 9y ago
Were you using Atmosphere packages? Ever since Meteor added native support for NPM packages, many Meteor package developers are only publishing them as NPMs instead of on Atmosphere. That might be why you believe that there's rot.
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by vlasky 9y ago
I would use Meteor again as it excels in this area. Meteor 1.6 works with the latest Node LTS version (currently 8.11.1) and therefore is compatible with all modern code.
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by vlasky 9y ago
Meteor is an "opinionated framework", but there is no lock-in - you can use any NPM package you want. Even DDP and reactivity can be turned off, though these are powerful and useful features for real-time applications.
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by vlasky 9y ago
Meteor is alive and well! In 2015, my business implemented a Meteor-based real-time vehicle tracking app utilising Blaze, Iron Router, DDP, Pub/Sub - features and packages that a vocal minority of misguided people seem to want to kill