robotkdick

    "A large number of (shark) bites occur when water conditions are poor" 
    - https://saveourseas.com/worldofsharks/why-do-sharks-bite-people

I trust the leadership at Zeit are making the right decisions technically, but as the company grows, it also seems to get further away from its original mission.

The swift deprecation of previous versions is threatening to undermine any resemblance to the mission, if ease of use is still the mission.

The React team got this so right with the release of hooks in 16.7. Dan couldn't have been any more right on the money in his delivery, which was laden with promises of no breaking changes and "don't feel like you have to rewrite anything."

When Zeit released cloud v2, about three months ago, they made v2 the default, which broke many development workflows and required me personally to spend three full days refactoring code and resolving Docker issues due to an obscure error that Zeit support had trouble identifying. The breaking change was a shock and a surprise. The explanation? You should be doing things this way anyway.

Perhaps that was true, but maybe not.

After going through all the trouble of converting to cloud v2, I reverted to cloud v1 because I could not set the min instances in cloud v2, to eliminate cold boot as an issue. Someone on this thread said cold boot is 200ms. That may be true for a particular application, but I received so many customer complaints about slow boots (5 seconds or more), I had to revert. Reverting has solved the issue.

As of today, I have a deprecation warning when I log into Now which says `Your account is using a legacy platform version. We highly recommend upgrading.` Or what? Are you going to make my unmutable application mutable?

This announcement about Now v2 is confusing, first of all because Zeit already released cloud v2. How are the versions related? Next, serverless may be the future of everything, or it may not work for some existing environments. The jury is out.

To someone at Zeit, please watch the React Hooks Intro video, and the parts of Dan Abraham and Ryan Florence in particular: https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-intro.html

This is a great way to treat your stakeholders. Also, what helps is that React is going in a direction that focused on simplicity in design. I've experienced the opposite with using Now, but I still love the mission.

And if I want to keep my now 1.0 (or iphone 6 plus) because I prefer it, why do you want to take it away so badly? My complaint is not that you are making improvements. I trust your leadership in this space. You're obviously smart people. The problem is the behavior around deprecating earlier versions. It's herky-jerky and inconsistent.

Also, what is the mission now? That would be great to know.

A few years ago, I rode my bike around Lake Michigan and blew out a wheel while in the upper peninsula. While sitting and waiting for the replacement, mostly at a bar, one of the truck driver regulars told me when he sees a bike rider, he swerves to hit them. That actually happens in some places. I've experienced it first hand.

While at a stoplight, I was also told by a driver in LA that I should be careful riding my motorcycle or someone might hit me. I asked him if he was planning on hitting me, and he said maybe. Traffic in general is a dangerous place to be, but when you combine a lack of education or intelligence or negligence, it is the most dangerous part of our lives.

That's human nature, and it's exactly what's happening in politics at large. People from cities don't understand people from rural areas and vice versa. We think we're all so far apart, but in reality, our views are all grouped really close together (they're all human views). This is why we face major challenges solving larger problems, like global warming or plastic in the ocean, because it's easier to counter-attack than to do the work to change our own behaviors despite the faults we see around us.

It's incredibly detailed in pointing out the differences between old and new Apple Maps, as well as comparing map images from Apple, Google, Tom Tom, and others.

The article demonstrates through the use of animated gifs that Apple Maps has become significantly better over time and in many cases surpasses the quality of competitors.

I agree, and I'd add to your definition to say that the ultimate bonding occurs through finding joy in the mutual exchange of vulnerabilities.

For example, last night my wife and I were not seeing eye to eye on how we saw our future. I was busy trying to make her see my side, but it wasn't until I was willing to give up and do things her way that she came around and agreed with my perspective.

It was not because I was wrong, it was because I wasn't recognizing her point of view, and that made her feel vulnerable. The joy we experienced mutually at recognizing one another's vulnerabilities is still–the next morning–a sublime feeling, the ultimate experience in life perhaps.

I'd also observe Elon is paying the price for setting out to do something extremely difficult, and though it appears that he's losing right now, he'll come out on top as long as he stays the course. Taking a long vacation, though it may be the best thing for Elon's health, is arguably not the best thing for the company right now. A long weekend is probably in order, but I hope Mr. Musk can find the strength to keep doing what he's doing because it's working (sans the late night tweets and poor choice of Grimes' so-called friends).

Given the higher cost of other materials, changing consumer behavior (which is not easy, but it's happening right now, and achievable through further exposure and education) may be the only way to change producers' behavior.

While a tax seems like an easy fix, it may also cause the government to come to rely on income from plastic acting as a deterrent to law-making which discourages the use of plastics.

Both paths also promise a more enriching life.

I’ve never experienced any website that responds faster than one built with meteor post 1.7 in an updated browser. Lightning fast

Apollo can also be used with graphQL, but I’m happy with the results using mongo and DDP out of the box with one simple command meteor create Deploying to now is also a one liner thanks to meteor now

AND Zero mentions of Meteor, lol!

I think I'm the only indie developer using Meteor and Blaze, but I have to say they make my life WAY better. Granted, it took some time to figure out exactly how to optimize the stack to make it scale correctly, but NOW Meteor is the only solution I've heard of that does this:

Meteor now automatically builds two sets of client-side assets, one tailored to the capabilities of modern browsers, and the other designed to work equally well in all supported browsers, so that legacy browsers can continue working exactly as they did before. This “legacy” bundle is equivalent to what Meteor 1.5 and 1.6 delivered to every browser, so the crucial difference in Meteor 1.7 is simply that modern browsers will begin receiving code that is much closer to what you originally wrote.

The apps I build now run like native apps in a modern browser. Laser fast. It's beautiful, like the first time using broadband.

After everyone and their mother proclaimed Meteor to be dead, they rose from the grave and locked in like Godzilla. I don't begrudge anyone their choices, but if you haven't taken a look at Meteor lately, having used Wordpress, Rails, Ember, React, and vanilla JS with node in the past, I'm very grateful Meteor's development team is STILL knocking it out of the park.

Content creation and hosting is a small problem compared with distribution and marketing. That's much of the reason why it's taking so long for software to eat entertainment. Distribution to interested parties is a process that took Hollywood half a century (and YouTube and Netflix) decades. Keep in mind, Netflix started by focusing just on distribution.

Good news is always good, but there's a difference between gaining access to tens of thousands of euros and getting to a first video distribution with 20 million views, for example. That's when people who work in content/entertainment will turn their heads and take notice.

There's only one problem. Neither she or my dad will get one...

Hopefully, Bill Gates can throw some weight behind acceptance of these tests as both dementia and Alzheimer's seem to show signs of responsiveness to simple changes in behavior...like walking every day.

It might be that simple or not... without access to the test data over time it's hard to make solid arguments.

"Mom, you need to go for a walk today," just doesn't sound very scientific, but "Mom, Bill Gates says you need to go for a walk today," might just work.

The world is shrinking and being stretched at the same time.

The motivations for this new initiative could be numerous, including a step back toward the ARPA days, a way to outdo the Chinese in defense applications, and/or a way to make a political claim for the next election.

I'd be curious to hear what more informed people think the motivation might be. Regardless, it seems to be a positive step towards electronics innovation.