this is just a PR disaster waiting to happen. who in their right minds would trust this small team to design a supersonic plane vs army of aerospace engineers at boeing and airbus?

I'd rather enjoy the comfort of flying with Boeing. Track record means a lot and they have the balls to say they are working on a prototype like they are building an Android app.

loool, the article highlighting arrogance of SV is real.

tldr: no way I'm getting on this plane and neither should you, it looks dangerous as fuck.

Can you share some more details about what you're trying to do with us? There's a latency floor when using the API Gateway of about 200 ms, which is unacceptable for a lot of APIs, but other than that we largely haven't been running into the issues you're dealing with. And if Meetup is any indication, AWS seems really invested in Lambda. (In terms of cost, it really would depend on what you're using it for.)

No offense, but this sounds exactly like the experience I had, and many friends had, before we actually learned how to use the service. If I had to guess, you're using the smallest possible 128MB config and not calling it very often. This presents a maximally-bad first experience for devs by Amazon but is not reflective of how it works once you get some actual utilization happening. All that said I moved to containers on Azure for unrelated reasons. But Lambda works fine (within its obvious architectural restrictions) and they'll hold your hand for a $49/month developer service plan fee.

wow that escalated.

It's the gist of about 1/4 of the posts on this thread.

It's a little worrying that people will be upset by something that didn't happen to them and throw it all away without a second thought.

There was an op-Ed in the New York Times the other day about a former UN bureaucrat saying the UN is broken and needs reform, and the astounding reader reaction was essentially to burn it down and start fresh.

I don't think many programmers here would seriously advocate the same approach with large systems.

Ummm... This is a forum for people interested in startups, which are defined more as "start fresh, then use it to burn down the old thing." Not exactly the same thing, but offend driven by the same sentiment.

Yes the sentiment is the same, but it takes little historical understanding to see how tearing down is always easier and more exciting than building up.

What works at a startup often can't work at a big company. Or a university. Or a government. You have to work with the system you have. For those that leave angellist without a second thought, what are your alternatives? LinkedIn?

was thinking about this just now. how easy it is to influence people over the internet through mediums like reddit, HN, etc. as soon as something gains enough upvotes, it becomes the truth.

Watch "century of the self" and thank me later.

microservice is a horrible horrible idea to uproot your existing architecture or build on top of.

> the deal". Mr Wagner, who claims to have a stellar record as a serial entrepreneur, was still telling everyone who would listen that his was a company that would be bigger than Google or Facebook one day. As recently as last October, he told Evan Davis on Radio 4's Bottom Line that the business had been valued at $2.7bn by its backers Wellington. Evan suggested that was a meaningless figure because Powa hadn't made any money yet. "We're a growth tech business," Mr Wagner replied, maintaining it was other people who had set that value.

holy crap this reads just like the interview with Pets.com in a 1999 edition of some PC magazine

tired of software engineers getting shit on...the only reason that software engineers can't make large amount of money is the company suppresses the wages.

all you need is someone business saavy, partner up with them while you offer technical know how to realize the vision. For me, this is the much easier and better rewards. My odds are better in this environment because I'm naturally inclined to danger, the unknown, and creatively approaching problems that have only come by trial and error.

whenever I read articles like this, it makes me glad I chose entrepreneurship over 9-5. With rise of deep learning, as you've recently witnessed with AlphaGo, relying on salary as part of the cost operations part of a business doesn't have good prospects into the future.

its time engineers began looking outside the well but I fear my advice will largely be ignored and scoffed at. Entrepreneurship? Sales? Business? These things don't matter in a world of commoditized open source software?

Surely, one has the wisdom to know the pitfalls of narrow mindedness past late 20s.

So, I'm autistic. Anyone who follows me on HN or Reddit has seen me speak about what it's like to grow up autistic in a part of America that didn't officially recognize Autism (let alone variants like Aspergers) until it was too late to help me.

I sometimes do suicidal ideations, but then the part of me that is usually being like "hey, you can't have fun and enjoy yourself, because ten years ago someone you didn't know very well said bad shit about you" (ahh, depression, my old friend), is like "you committing suicide isn't the answer... them committing is a more acceptable answer."

And, well, that part of me is right. If you're that big of a pile of shit to attack people based on their disabilities, well, society doesn't really need you, and you're representative of the cancer that is killing society.

And, for a while, I'm okay again. The depression goes away, and I start functioning half way decent again.

I will say, though, 200mg of Theanine twice daily with a strong cup of coffee (and only one, let's not get into caffeine obsession), one an ~hour after I wake up, one about 6-8 hours later, powers me through the day and shuts that part of me up.

that was edgy