jorgecurio

can't believe this has only 8 upvotes and largely ignored by people because it's the inconvenient truth about startups, largely founded by people who are empty suits, highly optmisic headless chickens who are against risk taking and juice behind the charisma.

I think it's great that HN is celebrating nassim taleb's black swan theory with the black bar at the top

well I built a user authentication and it takes 5~6 seconds for a real simple operation. it happens randomly and no way to debug it.

the opacity of being able to peer at what's going on in the backend is a real problem with AWS Lambda. I think that this lack of insight is going to bite down the road. Even now, I'm getting 'service error' with NO EXPLANATION what happened.

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.

please provide sources and references to back up your claims.

you add nothing to the discussion on whether you are using node.js in enterprise or not. feel free to nit pick further by adding nothing to the discussion.

reply to the other guys comment below:

what's a BRE?

true but a bulk majority of businesses (fortune 10,000) are built on some type of Java. I just don't see them uprooting their investments.

It's always easier to think of tearing things down then building on top of existing,stable and mature systems like JVM. So much of the worlds devices and critical applications depend on JVM. I just don't see it changing in the manner poeple on HN will have you believe. One unicorn at a time guys...

thanks I think that is a more realistic real world scenario, some people on HN thinks they can change the enterprise world but it's super hard to do it with javascript imho and evident by that it's not being used in wide deployment....

Java is still king in the enterprise world.

> In November 2014 AWS Lambda was released and it was nothing short than a revolution.

still not good enough to be reliable in production, more expensive than running on micro instance or digitalocean.

Lambda needs a serious makeover soon or it risks developer abandonment. It's great to lock yourself in with a cloud provider. That's the only serious benefit you get. You still need to figure out how to scale properly, getting on AWS helps but it's not a plug and play scalable thing.

I've largely abandoned development on Lambda because you have to upload your code every time which is annoying. Not only that, they randomly take 5~10 seconds to respond. Also unhelpful are service error messages with no explanation or help from discussion boards. I was told to purchase their support license.

So it seems like AWS is locking in developers and companies with a non user friendly documentation and arcane hidden pitfalls then leaving them no choice but to purchase support since the cost is cheap (pay to play right?) until you add up the effort of integrating with AWS and the cost of lock-in....

AWS lambda is great for prototyping but it doesn't have the tools or a proper development guideline to utilize it. There doesn't seem to be much enthusiasm from AWS either, and if they pull the plug, well hope you didn't build any mission critical apps on lambda backends because you are going to have some considerable downtime.

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.

wow that escalated.

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

that was edgy

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.

I get frequent suicidal ideations. It's always like when I'm overhwlemed and upset, it just goes from angry --> sad --> suicide --> planning but I never go through with it. It's impossible for me to do it. So I just take it as my way of coping...with self destructive fantasies.

I think studying Eastern philosophy, buddhism and taoism will help people on spectrum gain a much more rational and scientific view on reality.

Anyways, sure is a struggle, especially with people, relationships, intimacy, everything is that much more difficult but you know I just think like people have different skills, people on autistic spectrum are off the scale in one area but equally unable in many other areas that normal people will have no issues with.

how good of him to turn his life around

THE MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION OF COURSE

well send me an email (in profile) if you need any python, javascript, php, scraping done.

I started out at $35,000 USD / year in Vancouver then I stopped working 9am ~ 9pm including weekends and just started my own SaaS which made less than 10% of that.

this has been true for my case. however, I don't consider myself to be particularly smart, rather its super tiring to navigate socio-emotional dynamics.

I do enjoy a few close friends but when I was living in and working in downtown vancouver, it was some of the most miserable chapters. In particular, the large density of people adds to my stress for some reason. I don't know why but I tense up and my senses are heightened when I'm in a crowd.

what do you think about the recent article calling out on arrogance of SV?

it gets better and better. I'm in my 2nd year without fb and haven't looked back since. Removing linkedin was great too. I never had instgram or snapchat. I had twitter but found it largely the most useless out of them all.

I use skype for chat. I like reddit and sometimes HN when there are interesting discussions going on.

thats pretty sad if you think that

compared to university students in Germany and France?

please tell me a German university student who sold their ovaries or body to fund their education. oh thats right it's all paid for.

lets not forget the quarter of a million dollar student loans that they will be forced to pay for. Pretty sure that's nothing couple years of work and all paid for right?

seriously America is too ghetto for university students, you have to literally fend for your self while in Europe the state recognizes the value in investing in university students through a national program. After all, much of the innovation comes from such institution. Maybe not so far America since they import all of the talent anyways starting from WW2 days

also explains why startup founders are overwhelmingly are immigrants. There just isn't enough American students from American universities thriving apart from exclusive ivy league lucky sperm club (being a navajo or hispanic applicant certainly helps) while barring Asian Americans because the 'yellow peril' is taking over the campus.

borrowing money means you need credit which lot of young adults don't have.

don't assume everyone else has the same options as you.

hey guys I want to learn node.js, and react.js where's a good primer on learning these things along with javascript fundamentals?

Maybe in Murica. Selling ovaries, shooting porno videos, sex work, stripping. These are the opportunities available to young American students.

If they were in Germany, they would've gotten into a good tradeship or university all paid for without having to succumb to transgressive career choices just so they can support themselves through an expensive and horribly faulty notion that education is a business just like trading stocks.

Another way of putting this is: Don't plan on a job security in this century by being part of the cost center of a business.

how many of you use fb? I removed all social media 2 years ago

We could really use caning to discipline juvenile offenders. Nothing like a good ass whooping to teach kids right from wrong. Unfortunately, grounding kids only work for those within the safety nets of middle class. It is not enough nor is it realistic to threaten to take away a child's things when there's nothing to take away because of poverty.

This has been my view as well. Author comes off across as a 'tumblrina' and sort of obsessing over small annoyance rather than a serious writing on providing insight for real engineers who have better things to do than whine on medium

as much as people bash Angular, it was a relief just being able to take HTML code from a designer, sprinkle some ng- attributes and watch it come alive. I didn't even need to learn anything, it just made intuitive sense.

Unfortunately, as much as I want to learn React.js, there was too much context switching.

The only reason I'm persisting is because of react native. As soon as somebody comes up with a better way I'm ditching react

back to my good ol' jQuery