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Re:What Is Code? by m52go on Thursday June 11, 2015 @01:43PM (#9701150)
Love it or hate it, Meteor has empowered a number of sales-types and small-business owners to create real tools to solve their own real problems.

I've seen it happen in front of my own eyes!

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Re:What Is Code? by makeitsuckless on Thursday June 11, 2015 @01:55PM (#9701233)
I omitted: ...and create so many new problems there will be years of work in it to clean the mess up.

Been in "IT" for a few decades, I've seen it happen in front of my own eyes time and time again.

The only self-help tool that has lasted so far has been the spreadsheet, and even that has gone horribly off the rails in many companies.

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Re:What Is Code? by m52go on Friday June 12, 2015 @08:03AM (#9705322)
Haha, agreed. I'd argue there's a strong chance of that happening with any tool meant to give non-professionals a 'professional' result.

WYSIWYG web editors, divorce 'kits', many DIY 'kits' for home improvement, etc. Something inevitably goes wrong and the lawyer / contractor wonders just why the hell the client didn't just call a professional in the first place.

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