"Although I was invested in this project, I definitely wasn't "flirty sex chat with some random scammer" levels of invested. The thought also dawned on me that part of their playbook could even involve "Aidana" calling for phone sex.

Either would be crossing lines that I didn't want to cross, meaning that I'd stumbled upon an unexpected 4th rule of engagement: don't talk dirty with scammers."

Rules of life to live by.

Without venture capital? Yes. Without $20? Probably not. $20 subscription doesn't need to cover costs of most active user. It needs to cover the cost of the average user (assuming you don't want to put any cash into it yourself...but if that's the case, maybe you don't believe in this idea enough?).

Nope, not a surprise. I've been doing cloud for a while.

What I've never experienced from a cloud provider is a denial at creating infrastructure and told to use a different region.

This is when you ask for a discount

You want them to charge you less for what they can't provide you?

Exactly, that's how business works. You calculate the cost it will take to deploy in the new region, and tell them, in order for your business to move there, instead of using AWS or GCP or any competitor, we need 3-years at this rate. And they will do it.

The Guns of John Moses Browning. One of those where you didn't realize how someone you likely don't know much about has impacted every human on the planet.

If you're that close to publishing just publish already :) This thread is dead in the next couple hours.

Not the saddest; just the most recurring "just ship it" story ever.

Strictly speaking, one doesn't preclude the other.

Sure, there could be other reasons this can't be "the saddest" such story, but just being common doesn't logically seem to be one.

yeah this is the "just ship it" story with 1000 faces, not the saddest by any means

$40k learning exercise. And great job shutting it down sooner rather than later when it would have been $200k and your marriage.

I've felt the exact same way after working (consulting) for mostly very large companies. I'd love to do a startup at some point in my career and sometime I have FOMO on that experience. The grass is always greener.

I would not say putting a CloudFront in front of Lambda is a good practice anyway. It highly depends on your use cases (load, frequency of data changes, etc). In general, I probably lean the other way and use a CloudFront only when necessary as it only introduces additional architectural complexity which makes it more difficult to troubleshoot issues. You can also get in a bad place if there are two many CloudFronts in the call stack.

This person likely spent more time writing the review than using the product. I have a remarkable2 and saying you have to give "the sidebar menu a colonoscopy to find the UI to list all pages, then create a new one, then navigate to it" is patently false and just stupid to say. Also, in the comparison between remarkable and pen/paper/scanner, the reviewer leaves out several important features.

- How about an infinite number of pages?

- Or the ability to undo/redo?

- Or the ability to resize?

- Or the ability to quickly send a document to a coworker?

- Or the ability to just be drastically more organized?

- Or the ability to not have to carry around 5 different notebooks everywhere you go?

- Or the ability password protect your documents?

There are lots of reasons a reMarkable is drastically better than pen/paper.

Reading the review, i cant help but feel that the author was always planning to return the unit. They did not seem to spend much time actually using the tablet and invest in learning how to use it, they just took advantage of the return window, and from tge sounds of it, was always planning to.