None of the voice controlled devices I've ever used have been a pleasant experience (Google, Siri, various others). I don't think the tech is there yet personally.
They might have it down for certain english accents but even as a native speaker, their success rate is probably about 25% for me.
On a related note, iPhone's dictation just took a huge step backwards with the new iOS release.
The "running from a single box" at the end seems like it could be the most important part of the equation. Would you agree? Or rather, would that be the recommended place to start optimizing if your app runs into scaling problems?
I don't know how you could load balance meteor easily, but you could put your mongodb instance anywhere and pass in its location to meteor. This doubles your risk for downtime because of hardware failure though, your uptime is no longer as good as a system that depends on the uptime of a single machine.
Could you elaborate on why it is a pain to deploy? I've never used Meteor but I thought one of the selling points is ease of deploy, hot code pushes, stuff like that.
Never really had an issue - I can't say the same about rails! Obviously Meteor has the advantage of being younger and so less cruft has built up, but I'd bet on it still being insanely easy to deploy 4 years from now.
The Meteor team is doing an awesome job spending the VC money on making an experience that is fantastic for devs. Major props to Geoff et al.
Deployment depends on where you want to run it. Builds into tarballs that can be deployed pretty directly onto EC2 or other hosting services. It does require a VPS or equivalent system (LAMP hosts won't run Meteor). I understand Heroku can be a little more complicated as well. That said, Meteor's self-hosting option is pretty good for getting started, and Amazon instances run it very well.
Also +1 on the Major Props to the Meteor team. They are a model team.
It's true. Their convoluted billing schemes belong in the "mislead the customer for great profit!" hall of fame, right up there with insurance providers.
@addyosmani [1] is a Chrome DevTools engineer who often talks about new features. That's probably about the easiest way to find nightly updates without following a mailing list.
Sorry, I understand that part. Was wondering what you meant by this (specifically the part about a "filtered down view of the world"):
"I find this better even just for the fact that I don't get the filtered down view of the world anymore - if there are things named similarly than the ones I use in the world, I want to know, so I can adjust my own naming."
It wasn't a loaded question or anything, not sure why I got down-voted either... (shrug)
Google gives you a "filter bubble", essentially exacerbating confirmation bias. That way if you search "what's wrong with Python" it won't return "snakes can hurt you".
