pargon

8 layers of management is a lot of management

Seems like a fair assessment. Maybe they should start by getting rid of the people who put that structure in place?

I assume my company's annual bill will be streamlined accordingly.

I've built a startup on AWS, and same. Since we started about a year ago, I've gotten two "action required" messages from AWS.

One involved migrating our Go-based lambdas from the "Go 1.x Runtime" to a more generic one that AWS wants to use for compiled binaries across languages. They provided a very helpful guide, including the Cloudformation template changes. I implemented them, and they worked perfectly just as promised.

The other message I got was rather urgent and telling me I need to upgrade the SSL cert on my RDS. The due date on that action is August 22, 2024.

There are a few areas of AWS I've found to be pretty abandoned. (Don't try to send push notifications using the AWS Platform Application + SNS approach, woof.) But overall, I've been very happy with AWS as a developer.

I've developed a cure for cancer. It's my magic lemonade, and it only costs $499.

At worst, you'll quench your thirst, but at best, you may get rid of that pesky tumor!

And if your mercenaries incorrectly target the wrong (innocent) person?

Cue all the people who say "Fine, then I won't ever go to Wired's site again."

That's kind of the point, you know.

Yep. My roommate got an offer from them last year. That offer was contingent upon a drug test. He ended up going with another offer.

Walmart Labs talks about wanting to bring in great engineers, and yet they make prospective engineers piss in a cup.

Glad they've got their priorities sorted out.

They forgot to ask about the deeply theoretical questions that the carpenter wouldn't actually use at the job.

"Now could you whiteboard for me how a table saw is built?"

"I've never had to build a table saw."

"I just want to see how you think."

The space pen versus pencil is a myth perpetuated by people on the Internet who don't know what they're talking about.

http://i.imgur.com/un3H3EN.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Pen

I assume you're not a software engineer. Because if you were, then it would make it sound like you're anti-union and pro-pure-capitalism until it might actually affect YOU.