Pixar Studios Secret Room
Once
Startup people are generally optimists about new ideas. They get excited about an opportunity to solve a problem - even if the solution doesn’t work or there isn’t really a problem. Most of the time they’re wrong.
Normal people are pessimists. They often see no reason to try something new. Most of the time they’re right.
They don’t realize that being wrong 99% of the time is just fine. You only need to be right once.
(Source: ryanestradadotcom)
Blake Masters: Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 4 Notes Essay
Here are my class notes, typed in essay form, from Class 4 of CS183: Startup. Errors, omissions, and/or poor phrasing are my own. Credit for good substance and wording is Peter’s entirely.
CS183: Startup—Notes Essay—April 11—The Last Mover Advantage
I. Escaping Competition
The…
Meteor
Meteor is a set of new technologies for building top-quality webapps in a fraction of the time, whether you’re an expert developer or just getting started.
- Pure JavaScript.
- Live page updates.
- Clean, powerful data synchronization.
- Latency compensation.
- Hot Code Pushes.
- Sensitive code runs in a privileged environment.
- Fully self-contained application bundles.
- Interoperability.
- Smart Packages.
Meteor
These days I see more and more updates coming to java script world, it is hard to catch up with the list.
Here is a new kid on the block Meteor (Write entire app in pure JavaScript). I think these 7 principal mentioned in their document pretty much sums it all up.
Looking forward to learning it…
7 Principal of Meteor
- Data on the Wire. Don’t send HTML over the network. Send data and let the client decide how to render it.
- One Language. Write both the client and the server parts of your interface in JavaScript.
- Database Everywhere. Use the same transparent API to access your database from the client or the server.
- Latency Compensation. On the client, use prefetching and model simulation to make it look like you have a zero-latency connection to the database.
- Full Stack Reactivity. Make realtime the default. All layers, from database to template, should make an event-driven interface available.
- Embrace the Ecosystem. Meteor is open source and integrates, rather than replaces, existing open source tools and frameworks.
- Simplicity Equals Productivity. The best way to make something seem simple is to have it actually be simple. Accomplish this through clean, classically beautiful APIs.
Khalilah Site: Meteor: Etherpad Founder & Other Rockstars Team Up To Make Web App Development A Breeze
Web apps look a lot different today than they did a decade ago. Today, in the era of smart clients, web and native apps have to communicate with an array of distributed cloud services, and, while legacy infrastructure remains, these new frameworks present ever-trickier problems for app…


