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first, please talk to someone about your depression. it's temporary, i promise.

second, companies/businesses that require or care about a degree or diploma are usually the worst. you had a high paying engineering job? well, that should be sufficient to get you into your next job, and if you sell them on who you are as a person/potential employee, even better.

third, you're only 20, and i know how that sounds, but it's true. relax. your life is just starting, and what you think you want or know now, is mostly going to change A LOT over the next 5 years. it might help to figure out some short-term goals, and go from there. we all go through rough patches in our lives, and you actually had the balls to quit and face a challenge head-on. this is something most people can't imagine doing, so it's easy for them to criticize others for doing it, which is why they're pathetic.

if i was 20 again, i would scrape together enough for a bus ticket to the bay area (palo alto, mtn. view, san francisco, etc.), and find a job at a startup. if that's not for you, then take the advice of others and get a job at a supermarket or somewhere just to get your brain on something else. then, focus on befriending people who were more like you, and decide what is best for yourself going forward, one day at a time.

some of us have been right where you are, and some of us know exactly how you feel. it will workout, you just have to ride out the rough times and climb your way back. no one on HN is going to judge you. as you can see there's a lot of support here.
No, it is simply another means of control, like touch input.
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Because it doesn't make any sense? What, are you planning just randomly try every permutation of 142 bytes?

You can't have a genetic algorithm run on something where almost every attempt will simply produce invalid code. Genetic algorithms work when you can try various strategies to maximize a fitness function. But here the fitness is yes or no, does it work or not. There is nothing to maximize - and you can't try to maximize the "size fitness" because pretty much all the attempts will produce invalid code, so there is nothing to mix together for various generations.
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You did the right thing.

But it's time to move on, life is too short. Try to start again, like the Phoenix, from your ashes.

You can start a new life from what You think is a failure (it is not, because You didn't anything wrong!).

Maybe You can consider the idea of having a job in another field, maybe You should try something less stressing, and I'm saying this because I'm a developer too!

Obviously, at the beginning the money will be not too much, but why You shouldn't try?!

Let us know! :)
Agreed. There are no issues with this site as it works today. Google is way off base with this and it's troublesome.
It's like the bible, once you collect enough data, you can find a passage that supports whatever belief you are trying to defend. Being "data driven" is one of the company slogans ("Its day one!") and there's a lot of people who believe that stuff. On some levels its very true. Some groups are very data driven. In other situations, due in part to Sarbanes Oxeley, you couldn't get at data that was being collected and relevant to your efforts because you had to get a VP to sign off on it.

Data was used to bolster opinions, but unless it was hard and fast proof, it was often ignored as well.

I don't think Larry's results were considered "real" data.
Thankyou, that means a lot to me :)
Judging from your previous HN post i take it that your reason for quitting was because you hated where you were working and were being worked out. Its difficult in such situations, but you have to be prepared to lower your expectations cause they may be set too high and that is why you are feeling bad. A lower paying job can be really satisfying, you are young and can build your skill set. Even if you were much older you can still build your skill set. Start from somewhere you can set you feet in and go from there. I would like to read a post of you succeeding in your next endeavor.
We do? I'm an geek, using Linux with a custom kernel and a tilling WM, and I never had any real interest in Apple products, but Siri seems fantastic; it's the first time I really want an iPhone feature.

Siri seems to be the dream of every guy who read or viewed sci-fi, where voice interfaces are ubiquitous.

Sure, I'd wish it didn't transmit everything to "the cloud", and I'm definitively not buying an iPhone just for it, but it reached to me like no other Apple product did.
Yes, that's kind of interesting, isn't it? If those horror stories are true (and we have no reason to doubt they are), it kinda shows that the way you treat your employees doesn't really matter to your success.

It certainly matters a lot to them; it matters from a moral point of view; but from a practical point of view the only individuals whose happiness matters are the customers.

Of course, if your employees are so unhappy that they make your customers' life miserable, you have a problem. But Amazon is still very far from that.
WTF? You expect your consulting to work from the first fucking month? Didn't you read any articles about it?

You are supposed to have some money reserves to keep you afloat for at least 6 moths. And you shouldn't expect your consulting to thrive until at least a year later.

It takes time to build client base and it takes time to build your personal brand. If you expected it all to magically just work you are just plain stupid^H^H^H^H^HH^H^naive.

In my case it was somewhat faster as we switched from a full-time job to working for the same company as contractors, but after a year, that first client was a tiny blip on our radar.

Work on promotion, hit all the meetups and conferences, meet people, release some cool open source, write a blog. THEN you will start getting clients.
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You're young, you took a risk and you failed.

There's nothing wrong with that and somewhere down the line you'll realize you actually learned something useful from all this.

Also, things could be much worse; for instance you could be an unemployed father or being hunted by money lenders or with a chronic disease and no insurance -- you're not the only one that experiences trouble in this economy, yet many people will live to see a brighter day.

You are also not an idiot. To succeed in this economy, smartness is only one factor. Others are luck, timing, the environment you live in and the acquaintances you have.

Get a job, any job whatsoever. Low paying jobs, like being a driver or a cashier or working in constructions, require more physical effort and a lot less mental effort. This is good, because you probably need a break from software development. Physical effort is also good when you're depressed and it helps you pay the rent too.

I would also move out of my parents' house as soon as I got a job that allows me to survive, as there's nothing worse when you're depressed to also be dependent on other people, especially parents that look down on you with disappointment; remember that they lived in different times when entrepreneurship and failure may not have been so common.

So take it easy and don't worry, you will recover.
"... The new attack in the article is hard to carry out on a tram ..."

This is what caught my eye:

"... German engineering academics David Oswald and Christof Paar, both from Ruhr Universitat Bochum, have been studying how to hack into the card ..."

The article got term, 'hacker' right.
You seem to be having trouble setting priorities. Shall I:

a. Purchase "The 7 habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen Covey?

b. Purchase "Getting Things Done" by David Allen?
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Not having to backup because the data is "in the cloud" is just a pipe dream. Wake up, people!

Redundancy is good. It saves your ass when the critical piece of infrastructure that should not fail, fails.
You say it hasn't worked out .... well, it just hasn't worked out YET. In a few weeks time ski resorts will be hiring for the winter. How about doing that for a few months? You might be very glad you did. :)
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That is more or less what every language is trying to achieve. It would be more accurate to say "Clojure: All other Lisp implementations are impractical".
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I've thought a lot about this. In part because, you can't generally say anything bad about Amazon without being attacked. "You must be disgruntled" etc. I only made my post because I had the cover of Steve Yegge saying very similar things (Though I went into more detail.)

Most people believe Amazon's press releases. In 2006, they said that AWS powered Amazon.com. It was a flat out lie. But how could I prove it? Fortunately, others there at the time have posted in the thread as well. But come back to HN in a couple weeks when AWS has done their next press release, and say that, and you'll likely be down voted to oblivion.

The thing is, Amazon, and Jeff Bezos are damn good at spin. You see glowing articles that talk about Jeff as if he were a visionary, boldly leading his commerce site into the future of web services. (As I understand it, AWS was pirate operation, which got cover from a politically endowed VP in the company, and they were able to get it far enough along that Jeff saw the value of it, when he'd previously wanted to knife that baby.) Their manipulative ways extend to other people as well.. and when you're getting most of your stuff from them, and you've had good customer services, you naturally inclined to want to believe in them.

People believe Amazon must be good in all ways, because they are good in one way.

Amazon is really, FREAKING, good at fulfillment. Amazon prime, their return policies, their streamlined ordering policies... at this point, ordering things from other websites has so much more friction that they just feel old. "You mean I have to enter my credit card? Why don't you just sell this thing on Amazon.com and let them do it right!"

I don't know how Amazon treats their stockholders. They treat their employees terribly (but they do tend to hire a mix of type-A aggressive and meek. The meek just are grateful to keep their jobs and the Type-As love the political sport). But they treat their customers damn good.

And they have the fulfillment thing nailed cold. I give them respect for that.
My rule of bluetooth headsets: the more often you wear it (when you're not on a call), the more likely you are a douchebag.

It's held up fairly well, even as bluetooth adoption has increased.
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All of the above.

If you think about it, a programmer with a computer can replace hundreds of workers typing on typewriters, thousands working on mail delivery and essentially infinitely many people who would previously be required to produce books (if we allow for ebooks).

That kind of productivity isn't limited to programmers at all, even a temp worker with basic excel skills can outdo essentially all math geniuses from before the twentieth century (as far as computations go) put together.

I won't even mentioned how much more efficient email is compared to the two or three days it takes to send a regular letter (and more to the point, getting a response back).

Now a huge part of this improved productivity isn't realized because it isn't necessary and another huge part is lost because most of these things have diminishing returns (it takes a ton of computations to do the nice charts that are part of many simulation programs but it might not change more than a single percent of how you do business) and another huge chunk is given to the buyers (because if you don't your competition will).

But interestingly enough even jobs that have not seen very large improvements in productivity (say childcare, doctors, classical music players) also see an increased salary. It takes about as many doctors to do a surgery today as it did 50 years ago, it takes about as many people to look after the same amount of kids and it takes exactly as many people to play Beethoven's fifth today as it did when he wrote it.

The reason they have seen their salaries go up (aside from government meddling with things like AMA) is that as the general productivity increase the salaries that a company can afford to pay workers increase too and if the salaries paid to the other workers don't increase then there will be nobody to play the classical music.

Incidentally that is also the cause behind the higher salaries to teachers, some of the increased cost of health-care as well as the generally increasing cost of living.
We migrated the US retail rendering fleet to AWS last year. simonw posted a link about it elsewhere on this thread.
My first thought when reading was 'wow, he must be confident about how open to criticism the bosses at google are, to be posting this'.

And now i've come back a few hours later to find his post has been removed...

Let's hope he was right when he claimed he could easily get a job at facebook, for his mortgage's sake :)
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I didn't earn a single cent till I was 22, and that was a research assistantship at school. I really started working outside when I was 26.

At 20, you have better things to worry about.
You seem to be surrounded by people having a very bad influence on your state of mind (insulting father, friends mocking you).

Think about it for a minute, how would you feel if the people around you where understanding and kind? You'd think you made a choice that didn't work out, and that you need to get on your feet and move on. But instead you get all this bad stress from the outside!

Try to tell them it's serious, that all this means a lot to you and you need their support. That you can't take what basically amounts to constant emotional harassment. It might help them realize they're doing more harm than good.

But you can't decide for them, they might just keep at it. So the second step is spending more time with the people who care about you and won't make you feel like crap. What you hear all day everyday has a lot of influence on your outlook on life, hang around with positive-minded people, and tell the others you don't need their hate / insults. And be sure that hosting you doesn't give your parents a right to judge you.
dude, you're still VERY young.. instead of crying about your lack of education, GO BACK TO SCHOOL. You whole life is ahead of you. You've lost NOTHING by taking a risk
I always find comfort in the following verse no matter what the problem. Nothing ever stays the same, were always in transition. Take a minute and think about it...

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A time to plant and a time to uproot,
A time to kill and a time to heal,
A time to tear down and a time to build,
A time to weep and a time to laugh,
A time to mourn and a time to dance,
A time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
A time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
A time to search and a time to give up,
A time to keep and a time to throw away,
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Amazon internal propagand emphasizes that Amazon is a startup. "It's day one!" is a phrase I heard way too many times. They have "door desks" -- which actually cost them more than regular off the shelf furniture would-- but they pretend like they're being frugal to perpetuate the perception that they're a startup. (When I found out about the door desks costs, I was sworn to secrecy, it is very important for morale.)

I think the result of this is that a lot of employees believe it.

I think people generally, want something to believe in.

If you give them something to believe in, and it seems plausible, and especially if its tied to their income, they'll believe it.

And they'll work harder for it.

It worked on me-- that's why I didn't just go back to sleep that night. That's why I stayed on for several months after that, until things became untenable for me. Hell, I was going to stay with the company, I had met the AWS team, had gotten an offer for a position there and was in the process of transferring, and only quit when that transfer was blocked!

In a way, "well run" could mean that you get a lot of work out of your employees, even if they are miserable. I think optimizing for employee happiness can help you, but it isn't necessarily the only way to have high productivity.
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I totally agree that you only feel free as long as your savings last. I quit my perm job in 2009, (I didn't even have the option of going back to my parents) it was tough and very depressing!

However just because it hasn't worked out so far for you doesn't mean it won't lead to better things.

No one is an idiot that quits a job that makes them miserable. You've used the resources you have available to get you out of a job that you hated. The fact that you are only 20, have moved back in with your parents and have no debt means you (heck, you even had 4 months savings!) shows that you are responsible. It's not like you're 45, with 5 kids and a mortgage.

There's nothing wrong with wanting something better out of life even if you don't know what that is right now.

It's easy for your judgement to become clouded especially when you have the pressure of friends/family telling you what they think. I think there is a fine line between free and lost.

It may not seem like it but you've got quite a few options. First it starts with looking at your budget, how much exactly do you need each month to cover your bills & spending money while you're at your parents?

Get a part-time job that covers this amount (maybe a little extra for savings)

Once you have some cash flow you could consider the following options :-

Studying art (as you have mentioned)
Saving up to travel, to get some perspective on what you are interested in.
*Using your free time to improve your portfolio, network & build a demand for your work. You can work freely, no eye on the clock because you're backed up by your part-time income.

You were logical and brave enough to make the first decision don't let others opinions paralyse into not taking the next step.

There are plenty of people that need a coder for their projects who could maybe cover your living expenses during development and a then share of the profits once it's up and running. I know I've got a few!

Like others have said, keep promoting your work, you're now free to take up opportunities that arise.
No mention of Android. I know it was an acquisition, but Google built it out into a platform. Yes, it has flaws, but overall I would consider it a success.
So, about 4 years after it was publicly claimed to be running on AWS.
It's always darkest just before dawn, so do not give up hope just yet. Hang in there, you took a risk that did not pay off, so take a few minutes to lick off your wounds then move on, take it as a learning experience and do not repeat the mistakes you made.

Your story touched me as it's exactly what I am living through at the moment, its now 6 months since I quit my well paying job and being broke constantly is no fun, especially after life threw some unexpected twists my way, my dad being sick and me taking time off to stay with him the past 2 months till he got better.

Point of it all is there will be lows in life but also highs, so hold on and take heart.
Wow! Thank you for sharing your amazing story. It's very inspiring.
I'm wondering if you're from a different species.

My elder son is 6 and can't read, draw, or, God forbid, understand "the relationship between files, images, servers and browsers".

He's far from stupid; he plays chess, and Angry Birds, and many other games. But this? At 4??
Are you working on a startup or something like that? I think the assumption in the original thread might have been that you were, given the nature of this website. If so, your old job would have made it utterly impossible to accomplish anything. You would be better off to sweep floors or deliver pizzas 30 hours/week, if it came to that - if you're starting a startup.

What are you doing with this free time?
Awesome answer, especially because it comes from experience.
This is what you're going to do. You're going to stop everything for a moment. You're going to listen to me and you're going to feel better about this; because it's not as bad as you believe it to be. Trust me. Really trust me. You'll be happy you did.

First, you need to accept right now, that we need to sad times to appreciate the happy times. They are our reference points. There is no avoiding that. It's how the human brain operates.

Listen to me carefully. Imagine I'm in the room, sitting next to you. Relax and take a deep breath. Focus only on whats happening within you're proximity. The ambient sounds, the light from the screen, the keyboard, the mouse. Focus on that and nothing else. Empty your mind of your worries. Think about how passive everything around you has become. It's all just sitting there, just waiting for you to do something. You're the stimulus that puts things in motion. We, as humans do that.

There is a fantastic quote by Stanley Kubrick, that helps expand on this idea:

“The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.”

Look at your situation. You hated your job. So much so that you quit. That takes balls. At the very least, it's inspiring. In fact, Im at a cross roads in my life, very similar to you. You're not alone. You're story has captivated me (and many others) so much so that I've put aside an hour to read your story and respond from my heart. I think you're in far more control that you even realise man. I'm sitting in work right now, I should probably be coding some CSS or aligning my layers in Photoshop but no, you've won my attention. I'll probably think about you later tonight when I'm doing something unrelated. This is an incredibly powerful ability. It's who you are.

I'll try keep this short, but no matter who you are in this world, no matter where you are. You are always free. The mind is capable of making any choice it wants. Nobody can control your mind. Focus on the reality in front of you, focus on that fact that you and only you are the master of your decisions. You can achieve anything. Live is self-fulfilling, never forget that.

Read over what I wrote. Read it a few times. You won't get it first time. Think about it man, you've got a lot more control and freedom than you ever imagined.

Life is self-fulfilling. What you believe, is what happens.
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