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How HN took it
2 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 7 critical, out of 12 comments about the project. Thread score -0.35.
Idea: 0 for, 4 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Clean, useful interface for small single page apps
From 2 comments
Looks interesting, particularly for smaller apps that don't need the whole dnode protocol exposed. I think that's their target use case. Also, I was kind of surprised that the…
aroman on HNI've been programming with NowJs and could you point me to the "Boiler plate" stuff you're talking about? I don't get it. It is very clean.
SjuulJanssen on HN
Good tutorial
From 1 comment
Neat hack. Excellent tutorial.
ad126 on HN
Objections
Not truly real-time; no response time guarantees
From 2 comments
In what sense in this real-time? Hard or soft real-time? What guarantees does it provide?
supernooneo on HNWell that's not real time in any sense then is it? "a non-real-time system is one that cannot guarantee a response time in any situation, even if a fast response is the usual…
supernooneo on HN
Mostly duplicates existing tools like nowjs and DNode
From 3 comments
Isn't this exactly what nowjs does?
ilaksh on HNYou can do exactly the same thing using DNode.
smagch on HNwhy does this require its own application to launch it? wouldnt it be fairly easy to make this connect/express middleware?
tlack on HN
Depending on 'latest' versions risks breaking changes
From 1 comment
Nice to see people using some of my libs to do nifty stuff but I must caution against depending on `latest` since this could cause your application to break in the future if I…
substack on HN
Requests
Clarify what 'real-time' means and guarantees
From 1 comment
In what sense in this real-time? Hard or soft real-time? What guarantees does it provide?
supernooneo on HN
Questions
What does it offer beyond nowjs or DNode?
From 2 comments
Isn't this exactly what nowjs does?
ilaksh on HNYou can do exactly the same thing using DNode.
smagch on HN
Why not use ZeroMQ?
From 1 comment
What would be the benefit of using this over something like ZeroMQ?
joeblau on HN
Why not Express middleware?
From 1 comment
why does this require its own application to launch it? wouldnt it be fairly easy to make this connect/express middleware?
tlack on HN
Alternatives named
nowjs
From 1 comment
Isn't this exactly what nowjs does?
ilaksh on HN
DNode
From 1 comment
You can do exactly the same thing using DNode.
smagch on HN
Meteor.js
From 1 comment
Heard about Meteor.js?
blrblr on HN
ZeroMQ
From 1 comment
What would be the benefit of using this over something like ZeroMQ?
joeblau on HN