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
> Combine all of the above with the recent stories about hedge fund managers being exploitative sociopaths—
what the fuck. I mean come on but sociopaths thrown around like a cheap slut is too much.
When you have to perform and you are getting paid to gamble and WIN, you are going to need insider information. You SIMPLY CANNOT WIN in the hedge fund game without insider. a hedge fund guy once told me everybody fucking does it. Pay some underpaid, underappreciated guy at the company in cash. He told me SEC does a fuck job and only goes after the guys that really stand out, the too big to let them get away. They only go after high profile guys and once they go to jail for white collar crime, they have extensive network they tap into for employment and working together.
Yeah it's fucking scary what hedge fund managers are capable of but it's also overreaching to say all hedge fund managers are this corrupt, obviously ones that weren't smart enough to figure out how the game is really played.
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.
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....
> 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.
is anyone using node.js in enterprise? because everyone seems to be convinced that the enterprise companies are going to uproot all the network of partners, developers, vendors, and billions of dollars of investment made over the past decade?
Like it or not, JVM pretty much rules the enterprise space and there's just no way to do it another way. Literally, you will be turned away because you told the IT department they should write everything in javascript and node.js. Why? Because everyone is doing it. Not good enough.
I don't know what have your real world experience been? I'm learning Java because outside of rinky dink consumer and 19.99 / month productivity apps for SME, it's viewed in a completely different lime light. Honestly, the shortcomings of Java is greatly exaggerated vs how much of it is dominating the space, and it irks me when a 19 year old CTO on the autistic spectrum claims suddenly node.js is the way to build the world's infrastructure on.
javascript is great for async programming but much work has been done to make it feel procedural. My feeling is that node.js is a hard sell for enterprises already deeply entrenched with JVM. Unless you offered the migration at a cost and undercut everyone. Not a great business imho where lower price is the only thing going for you because it never lasts. Eventually, you open source and become a grass eating goat relying on training, certification, support licenses.
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.
> 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.
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.
I'm 33, and I haven't been able to find a job in the past 2 years.
I've pretty much given up on working in the mainstream economy.
What makes me most angry is that all those years people made money off of me and exploited my tendency to work blindly to exhaustion.
I sure as shit not going to work for crumbs anymore, the 9-5, the whole work to live mentality so many of my peers have.
It means that I'm going to have to do things that are socially reprehensible but make a great payday.
I justify this for all shit I've taken for the past 15 years.
When society fucks you, you fuck it right back and profit off of it. This is what YC taught me.