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I think that's the core issue here. I run a portfolio of sites, did a series of experiments on Google's quality guidelines. Frustratingly, they are nowhere closer to finding the quality content as humans do, but they think they know it and implementing it.

My experimental sites(the contents that I made sure they are crappy in the eyes of humans) with cheap content ($3/100 words) without any editorial control marked as quality sites and perform well in searches. While the sites that we spent thousands of dollars with strict editorial control were punished for some reason.

At one point a scrapper site that picks up one of our sites partial feed with 150 words excerpt out ranked us in the search results. What kind of quality guideline is that, a 750 words post is bad quality while a 150 words excerpt of that is good.

Google's motive may be good, observing it for the past 7 months, I found their approach is wrong.

As you do I use BIng/DuckDuckGO these days. Google has so much market share (around 85% in my observation ), if it goes down to 30% then we don't need to worry about pleasing Google, but focus on pleasing our customers/visitors like normal business do.
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Just noticed the same. This is another case of, how can this happen?
Someone with more industry experience than me here that can explain how this is possible in such a shop?
I think it is a matter of "opportunity cost". If you take the commute as a given then the question wrt to the technical tome is: "What must I give up to read this book?" On the train the answer is: "Sleep, stare out the window, solve crossword".

Contrast with home where the answer is: "anything and everything." Then reading a giant technical treatise is not quite as appealing an option.

I'm not advocating long commutes but there is perhaps something to be said for artificially limiting one's choices at times.
I can't wait to try stuff like this: “Remind me to fix Amy’s glasses when I get home.”

Does its understanding of location extend to more than just home is the address I entered for myself? Exploring its capabilities will be really interesting.

Siri's understanding of context is what makes it so useful. Pair it with Watson and it'd be unstoppable. (Wait, no! We've seen how that movie ends.)
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That is not true, Benford's law has rigid mathematical theory behind it, it is not solely empirically grounded. It is a property of numbers.
Also, tinyproj, a site featured here recently, has weekly lists of freelancing opportunities. Maybe something there will help tide you over.
This is vastly more capable and polished than the app in the App Store for the last two years. Deep integration with calendar, reminders, location (it looks like they've smoothed over a lot of the awkward permission requests in iOS 4), phone book and hardware (via the home button) makes it a radically different app.
It gets better brother. I've been there. Keep fighting. You're not alone.

You've already done the hard part. You've redefined yourself as someone who works for himself. Taking a job to keep going doesn't change that - it reenforces it.

Just keep doing good work and treating your clients well. You'll get more; it will snowball. It just builds really slowly at first.

Please drop me a line anytime - george@illuminatikarate.com. We're a small group and we need to stick together.
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Soometimes, while playing guitar, i wish i would not own a computer, because i'm sure my guitarplaying would be so much better... then i snap back to the real world and am happy as fuck that the computer pays my food.
Try Phenny. I wrote a module for Phenny that captures URLs and tweets them to our channel friends. Pretty easy to learn and extend:

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> I'm actually a bit hesitant to talk about this, even years later, because I expect to be attacked for it.

A bit unfair, don't you think? There have been several HN threads about Amazon in the last few months where former employees chimed in, and nobody has been maligned for it.
That's next to impossible for a ton of reasons.
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Definately not hiring nitpickers or micromanagers.

From what I understand, everything works in small teams. Knowing my own small startup, you can easily get swamped with bugs and issues and put off documentation and checking it till later, when it becomes an issue. It's bad practice, but with only so many hours in a day you have to prioritize.

Nonetheless, someone from the marketing / developer relations should have noticed this.

EDIT: Question was, how is this possible.
I'd suggest staying away from Hacker News too

This may be good advice, but I think the more general form is even better advice: Don't rely on the internet for hanging out.

Make contact with real people in real life, whether or not they are hackers. You are human, you need human contact. That's a big part of the definition of what it means to be human: We're one of the most social creatures on Earth; we're designed for communication.

Depression is real. And trying to be a solo freelancer in your basement is a form of solitary confinement, and that is bad for your health.

At the very least, get ye to a coffee shop or a library on a daily basis!

Also, because every comment in this thread should really include a citation of jgrahamc: Find counseling. Seek advice. You can't think yourself out of depression. It's not like solving a puzzle.
Cheer up, you're only 20. A lot of people will miss you. Life isn't easy. Don't make it harder on those who love you. You took a risk and it didn't work out. Get back on your feet and give it another go when you are ready.

I was working a lot throughout college and even high school when I had my own website generating income. Looking back, I wish I had enjoyed life a lot more rather than focus on money.

Get some part time job to keep you afloat.

Go back to school, enjoy being a 20 year old. You will be amazed at how many opportunities that just land in your lap while at school, interacting with your fellow classmates. Join clubs or anything where there are people around.
When I went from having a 2 hour commute via public transit to a 15 minute walk to work, the main thing I've been lacking is the time to read recreationally - though as someone points out below that's just me not making time for it.
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in a similar fashion, i am having more and more problems in handwriting, and it is funny to see my Samsung android tablet offer a note taking based on handwriting.
No commute is better, but if you're going to have to commute, his commute is much better than most: 1 hour of walking and 1 hour by train.

For me, walking is by far the most pleasant way of commuting. Driving is way too stressful and eliminates the opportunity to multitask. If I bike, it pumps my energy level up too high, so it takes a while to calm down enough to get into the zone. Walking is the only way I can start doing productive work the instant I get to the office.

The huge advantage of the train is that you can work on the train if it isn't too crowded. That's a big if, but if it works and you have a cooperative boss, suddenly commuting time is no longer commuting time.
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A risk taker doesn't sit around feeling sorry for himself. Specially at 20 years old!

Not saying it to bring OP down but get a job, any job. Get out of that house.
Another link, from the WaPo:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/arts-post/post/steve-job...

"Jobs preferred $175 St. Croix cotton and microfiber mock black turtlenecks. According to Bernhard Brenner, the founder of Knitcraft, St. Croix’s parent company, Jobs bought about two dozen black turtlenecks each year."
Everyone seems to be posting long, drawn-out responses to everything you said, but I just want to touch on one point.

You're twenty years old. Maybe quitting your job was a bad move, maybe it was a good move that you just can't see the bright side of yet, but in any event you've got plenty of time to figure out what to do.

And, bonus, you know what financial hardship is like. I know a lot of folks that won't take big risks because they're afraid of losing their savings. Not a problem for you, it happened once and you know you can survive it.
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Worked at: Apple.
I don't think so. I looks like they plan to add some "enterprise" functionalities that will be available using a privative license.
Yeah, I wasn't calling all Danes lazy--just curious if a notoriously overworked sub-culture might exist there.
These are all in-browser, not native applications. That's new.
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You're not alone! I went through the same thing earlier this year. Luckily I managed to find a full-time job fairly easily.

You are not alone.
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just watched social network movie the first time fully; apparently some people are motivated by a failed attempt to date a dream girl. I totally agree, the passion of what you want to work on, that is what I feel too.
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Hmm.. Great level of detail in steve yegge's post for a rant....Infact one of my pain points with google+ is not being able aggregate(#tags) and publish feeds from my blog.
slightly OT: does anyone else think there seems to be a trend of ranting recently, i mean Ryan Dahl,ted dziuba, and now steve yegge??
Excellent advice from edw519.

I only want to add that you are welcome to contact me (I'm a pastor and a programmer :-) if you need more help with the depression and suicidal thoughts. My contact information is in my profile.

My startup is a church congregation ... which in some ways is nothing like a technology startup, but in other ways is very similar. So I understand everything you wrote.
So it didn't work out. Would you rather you succeed 100% of the time at everything you attempt ? Where would the feeling of accomplishment come from then? Contemplating suicide is very very naive. It kills all your other options as well. You're 20, for crying out loud. Just figure out what you really like to do - maybe it's computers, maybe it's not.

You're probably being too hard on yourself - you were burnt out and bored from your last job - you quit and went straight to this new thing. No gap in between to recuperate from the burnout. Give yourself a break for 20 days - forget about this ordeal during this break. When you're back from this break - then decide what you want to do in life. When you're done with that, devote 5-6 years to learning or improving your skill in whatever it is that you decide.

Take the long view. Try to master your craft. If you have, it shouldn't be really hard to land a job to keep you afloat.
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now that i have tablets and smartphones, i accompany them to exercise, sunlight or tech readings. sleep is my only time without a gadget in my hand.
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Oh interesting. I'm looking at it now. How are you handling plugin dispatching? Are the plugins threaded?
Joke attempt. Men who are good at picking up women may be the best advisers for men looking to pick up women, while women may indicate what they'd like to see from a guy but their advise may not be the best advise in how to pick up women.

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I know it's tongue-in-cheek, but this is one of the first uses of Siri that makes me a bit worried about it in the future.
Maybe this doesn't work on something the scale of Sony, but if I detected a breach, I'd identify all effected users, and automatically force change of all their passwords (Google does this), making old authentication data stale.
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> If you (or someone you know) has a write up detailing these statements and tests showing them to be true, I'd be very interested in reading more about this. Please do share.

This is NDA information :) I'm repeating what I've heard from drive makers and my experience after setting up several thousands of RAID systems.
I didn't made tests recently, but vibrations can kill an array performance. I've seen a chassis where the central drive slot (among 24) wasn't usable because it vibrated more than the others :)
This might sound harsh, but hear me out.

Suicide? Come on. Really now. You can't pay some bills and are feeling lost so you want to KILL yourself?

Everyone makes mistakes. Some of them feel "stupid" in retrospect, but none of them should instill regret. You are 20 years old. You have BARELY begun to live. I speak from the RIPE old age of 29 and have experienced SO much in just the last 10 years.

When I was 20 years old, I was just about to drop out of college. I had a full ride to a private university. I just had to maintain my grades. However, I was sheltered as I grew up and was not prepared for the freedom of being able to make my own decisions. Instead of studying, completing homework and preparing for exams for a heavy 18 credit-hour semester; I went out drinking, partying and exercising my right of free will.

Long story short....my grades nose-dived. I not only lost my full ride scholarship, but the organization who was offering it made me accountable for the 3 semester's worth of funds I had already "wasted". About midway through the third semester I was in a deep depression as I felt that my 1.8 GPA was unrecoverable to reinstate my scholarship at the rate I was currently going. I was going to screw up the biggest opportunity I had going for me in my life so far. (To be clear, this was the first and only opportunity I had in my life so far.) I felt the world was going to end.

Then I made the most grown up decision I could ever make. I dropped out, moved in with my parents, got a low paying job working a call center, and started paying back my $45K in student debt and loans. I hated living with my parents.... especially when I JUST got a taste of freedom. But I learned more discipline and responsibility over the next 5 years than I did in the entire 20 years prior. (Maybe not a fair comparison, but it's true.) I STILL haven't payed back all of that debt, but I DID finally get back to school. I brought my 1.8 GPA with me. And I graduated just a year ago. Magna cum laude. (Second highest honors.) I got an internship through school which I'm still working at and making good money again. And I really think I made it this far because I took responsibility for my actions and prioritized a comeback.

Life is fucking HARD! Nothing that was ever worth doing was easy. But the lessons and experiences we gain while we try to overcome our challenges are some of the most rewarding things this life will ever offer you. You were right to quit such a slave-driving position. You're suppose to be working to LIVE and not living to work. Remember that. And persevere. Life will fly by faster than you can imagine and there are still MANY experiences left to find.
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This is one of the very few times I've seen Steve back-off of a provocative statement; whatever made that happen does not bode well for Google and I think my point stands.
Apple won't even claim this. They just waffle and avoid the question. I don't know why it is so hard to believe that Apple would do this to give more incentive to buy the 4S. It is the flipside of the famous Google criticism "if you aren't paying, you are the product". With Apple, you get the product, but you are going damn well pay for it. Whereas on my Android my crap prepaid 600 MHz phone runs Voice Actions just fine.
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FWIW check out the posts from OkCupid on their statistical analytics of dating photos and such. It was an excelent overview as to what people find attractive and how the same person with two diff cameras and shots can appear on opposite scales of the attractive-o-meter.

*Idea -> professional photos for online profiles -> guaranteed awesomeness.
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The good thing about that though is that it allows clever startups to offer a service that takes care of the horribly documented details of making a Facebook app, and let their customers focus on the actual app.

(Guess what my company is doing)
Does Rails define so much functions that it counts as an alternative to Ruby? I would say Ruby is a pretty good/modern language on its own.
You tried. You failed. You move on. Life will always have its fair share of lemons.

Don't compare what you would have been (if your venture succeeded) with what you could have been have you stayed on the job. I think this is what makes you depressed.

Focus more on what you're good at. Take a different approach without losing your perspective. Always be on the positive side of things. With your latest move, at least you already have some life learning lessons that not all people would even have the luxury of knowing or experiencing. Think of it as one painful part of your life where you ultimately learned a lot of lesson.

Get your mojo back. Believe in yourself. Never stop trying. Feel better about yourself. Not everyone will do what you did - which would take a lot of courage and heart.

After you read this, go back to the drawing board. Look where you could temporarily fend for yourself while looking for the next big thing. Life is a constant change and whether you remain at the pits or keep on moving is up to you.

I would not wish you best of luck as I believe that luck is what we make of what we have and what we do.
Your life is essentially a series of experiences unfolding in ways you are likely to never predict with any reasonable degree of accuracy.

Steve Job's graduation commencement speech touches on this idea of being unable to "connect the dots in your life" forward, one can only do it retrospectively. It is a keen observation and is certainly worth listening to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA

Try and minimize the amount of time you let your mind spend regretting a decision you made in March and focus more on looking forward and taking the next positive step in your life.

You are only 20 and are bound to make many more decisions that you may consider to be a mistake in the short-term, but you have no idea how your life will ultimately unfold.

What you once considered to be a mistake could turn out to be a great decision, even if it only serves the purpose of teaching you some lessons to grow yourself further.

Kudos on your bravery to take a risk, I'm sorry to hear it isn't working out at the moment but I assure you it is totally within your domain of influence to change things around for yourself and realize new opportunities.

Just take it one step at a time and try and frame the experience as simply an opportunity to grow through a challenge.

I read edw519's comment and he is certainly right, we do care and things are never as bad as they may seem.
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The two features aren’t really comparable. It makes no sense to compare the two.
Yes. We did work to make wave scale before we knew what features would be important to users. That was definitely a problem, but its hard to avoid scaling when you're google and the whole world is watching.

The earlier you launch, the sooner you need to do that scaling work. But the later you launch the more development you do in a vacuum, without real customer validation.
No explanation is given why any supplement is unhealthy. That's the first thing.

Secondly, the context in which this occurs is that various government agencies and professional guilds want to prohibit the sale of supplements, or impose ridiculous 'standards' on their manufacture and testing.

However, it's very important that people remain free to choose which non-prescription chemicals to put in their bodies. Medics and pharmacists don't always get it right, they are difficult to consult, and they are as subject to whim and fashion in their thinking as other professions.

Meanwhile, only a handful of people die annually from vitamin overdose, whereas hundreds of thousands people die who take prescription drugs (yet we don't say that there's no justification for prescription drugs).
It's worth noting that they're describing the effects of high doses of vitamins. Given the average modern diet (at least, for Americans like me), vitamins may be necessary to achieve "normal" doses.

I take a fiber supplement (which, I know, is not a vitamin) because I try to avoid refined carbohydrates, which tends to mean I have to avoid carbohydrates altogether except when making a home-cooked meal. Since the average adult male around my age/weight needs ~28g of fiber a day, and I probably consume 15g or less, the 6g supplement seems prudent. Anecdotally, my ... er, system ... seems to work better that way.
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> (Unless Google is crazy enough to actually do multiple depots on a single p4d instance...)

Why is that "crazy"? AFAIK, depots are just an organizing mechanism, they don't have any effect on scalability.

http://kb.perforce.com/article/684
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> The problem I'd wanted to fix 2-3 months earlier. The problem I'd gotten chewed out for trying to surface but been told "won't fix" all the way up and down the chain of command.

I mostly don't have responsibilities (family) and 6mo living expenses and supreme self-confidence (aka the perhaps non-rational belief that'll I'll find work or at least make a living no matter what). Because when people try to pull shit like that. I email Bezos and all the people who said won't fix, (paraphrased) "Fuck you, you ignored me months ago when I brought this up. Now I'm ignoring you when you ask me to drop everything and fix this right now! You should fire these incompetent fucks but you will probably fire me. That's fine, this company doesn't deserve me. Happy Holidays"
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You have now the great opportunity to learn the best thing that you can learn in life: to master your negative emotions. Keep the ballsy attitude you had when you quit your job.

Also, check the "connecting the dots" Steve Jobs speech... you're just 20 and in the future you'll be proud of how you overcame these difficulties.
Some will transfer to the Android camp. Some will wait it out. I suggest if the iPhone 5 had been shown many more would have taken an upgrade rather than waiting or jumping ship to Android. Hence, it's not that releasing the iPhone 4S was "bad" as such, just that iPhone 5 would have been much much better.
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