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Comment · 11 years ago
Thank you, I get the sense that you're not trying to be overly negative. But I'm also slightly confused. If you can't gain credibility with valid arguments and research, how else can you?
Comment · 11 years ago
> This is kinda funny to me because I know it's untrue. The product I work on in my day job is based on JMVC 3.2 and we can't upgrade to 3.3 because of the size of our app and the amount of refactoring work that would need to be done to make it work with the new concepts.
While it may be a large undertaking for your organization, I wouldn't consider any of these to be irrational changes in API from 3.2 to 3.3: http://www.javascriptmvc.com/docs/done.html
Comment · 11 years ago
Yes, and I think we do a decent job of highlighting why.
Backbone/Knockout may be well maintained but their scope is fixed. CanJS has gone from the times of $.widget() to <app-component> while maintaining backward compatibility.
Comment · 11 years ago
I don't think FB is a fair comparison. They are a mature company that operates at incredible scale.
Addendum: The intended audience for this article will not share these same properties.
Comment · 11 years ago
It's fair to have compromised your expectations of frameworks - since there aren't many that have been around for long - but Bitovi and its clients have not. Our libraries are both backward compatible and constantly innovating.
Comment · 11 years ago
I had attempted to bring a product like this to life a while back: http://gigyard.com/
Maybe I should re-visit it.
Comment · 12 years ago
I played around with something like this once: http://akagomez.com/demo/packaging-lazy-dependencies/
The goal was to illustrate how unique dependencies could be packaged separately for progressive loading while navigating single page javascript applications.
If you're interested in the real deal though, checkout http://stealjs.com/docs/StealJS.why.html#section_FasterLoadi...
Comment · 12 years ago
I haven't used this yet, but it seems like it should make updating mappings much easier. See the "using aliases for greater flexibility" section in this article: http://www.elasticsearch.org/blog/changing-mapping-with-zero...
I had to write the scripts to implement this concept myself and it wasn't a quick and easy task. It would had gone along a lot easier if I was able to abstract away some of those queries with a tool like this.
Comment · 12 years ago
TaskRabbit seems to focus more on simple errands that anybody can do and handles the details for you. They describe it as "Your to-do's, done".
GigYard focuses on helping people describe their unique qualifications so that they can be offered as specific services. Then gives customers the tools sort through those qualifications in order to find what they're looking for. It also takes a more hands off approach and expects that the customer and service provider work together. Similar to the way Craigslist works for buyers and sellers.
Comment · 12 years ago
Except then I wouldn't like the name as much.
Comment · 12 years ago
My instinct tried to steer me away from doing that, but my urgency to get something out there overcame it. I had anxiety about every damn word I wrote so I ended up settling with copy I felt "flowed".
I'll look into the type thinness. Thanks for the feedback.