[TWADDLE]

Its funny how people seem to be whining about Amazon.

In fact Amazon is one of the best places in terms of innovation. In addition to having a strong core business, they also have AWS, kindle, android app store.

Who cares if their legacy codebase is 40 milllions lines of C++ and not your hip Ruby or LIPS nonsense. The truth is that they get work done. AWS is one of the best cloud computing system out there. Nothing else comes even closer. Dropbox, Heroku and Reddit all rely on them. Who cares if they take resume in word format, they pay well.

Its sad to see HN turning into a language fanboi and apple fanboi club.

The AWS EC2 outage did not even affect 0.01% of their revenue.

[jacques_chester]

My understanding is that the original code for Amazon was written in hip Lisp nonsense with some ironic-retro C thrown in.