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Yeah it's odd we needed a whole article for this. "You can't out exercise a bad diet" has always been true outside of the most extreme cases (competitive athletes).

Fair enough, I guess this just seems like a bold assumption to make since an explicit handler function is a cornerstone of lambda, rather than being able to run module level code and having the end self detected.

It may just be such a basic tenant of the platform that no one thought to. You stop getting billed after lambda returns a response so why would you expect computation to continue? This guy expected free lunch.

For brochure / static content sites this is definitely the beginnings of a web crawler but it can be a lot trickier for web apps.

For example, clicking a link which loads some data, then clicking edit (which isn't even an anchor), typing in & clicking stuff, then clicking the save button (don't click the cancel button!) would not be an interaction that would get picked up with your suggestion. Detecting loops becomes much more ambiguous and backtracking to get all the permutations of interactions becomes a whole other problem to solve.

I don’t know what my use case for this would be. I don’t tend to do anything regularly through a browser that I’d want to automate.

Would be kind of handy to have a “pull all my relevant tax info documents from these sites and zip them up” automation but I only do that once a year.

I’m probably being unimaginative. Anybody have any interesting use cases?

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On an iPhone, can they actually access mic input without the indicator being on?

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It just seems odd in this context given they are willfully compiling these screenshots together, displaying them prominently, and saying they pay attention to details. What details are they trying to highlight here, if not the UI details?

In general the UI doesn't even look good. It's just a bunch of unflattering grey.

Am I the only one who gets an uncanny feeling visiting this site? If someone told me this was software satire I would believe them.

This cyberpunk-ish theme with juvenile sprite sprinkled over it (e.g. the little AI guy floating under the video and the figures under "What people are saying").

At the beginning of the video I get these '90s infomercial; "The world moves fast / information super highway" vibes. The background music seems ironic considering the visual content.

I guess it is just trying to be retro but the "I want to be post iOS 5 Apple" top bar throws me off. Sorry this is not constructive but I just must know if I'm the only one feeling this.

In any case, I don't mind Slack but I'd give this a try if they allowed more than 500 messages in the free tier. At least Slack gives you the 90 day history.

"Learn to Code like a Developer" is a funny tag line to me. Isn't the point to become a developer? Or are you saying: "you're going to learn with modern tools, just like how a may use tools to facilitate coding?"

Maybe highlight the fact that you have an AI bot helping you through it. I would not have known it unless I read your HN comment.

A concrete example would be a users shopping cart, as they build it. You don’t need the niceties of a fully ACID compliant DB, you need write performance, and extremely high availability.

That was at least a chief use case spotlighted in the original Dynamo paper by Amazon that what the precursor to AWS’ DynamoDB paper.

Not to say that couldn’t be done with Postgres but of course they were dealing with insane scale on Amazon Day.

C++ for when you need to be very close to the metal.

Java (and C#) are still legitimate options for server side code when you want speed and type safety but managed memory.

I duplicated a repo to test this out on and signed up, only to find that all I could try out was Authentication. That's probably one of the features most dependent on which library or identity provider you are using and they only have one library for now.

Wish I could have actually tried this out.

I think certain fads are a little dreadful in terms of unoriginality - those humaaans illustrations, for example. But I think most of the web really should look similar. I think of brochure websites like resumes: you're trying to depict key points without distractions and obstacles. Just like that one person's "unique" resume is actually the last one you want to read, so is that unnecessarily "original" website.