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I am 39 years old, I have a similar problem. Here is a short excerpt (unfortunately, the quality of the translation may not be very high quality) from http://lurkmore.to/%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%81_%D1%...

First of all out of your head delusion that "time lost", "polymers fucked", "clock is ticking" and that your age is not something to achieve. Only where the roads are closed to you - is the astronauts (in flight school adult uncles are not accepted) and the police (by law there are taking up to 35 years, though ...). And then, there is nothing stopping you hard earn money, and eventually fly to this your fucking space tourist. Also, you will be quite difficult to set a world record in some sports disciplines (although not impossible). Everything else is affordable 40-year-old man in the same way as 25-year-old. Of course, this does not mean that you should continue waste a time, but count every second - at least, stupid. Currently live as he lived, but finally put a clear goal, and achieve it as sought would be if you were 20 now. The result will be exactly the same. Errors makes all but the biggest mistake - if I think that they can not be fixed.
This is a pretty good illustration of why professional appsec people don't like PCI.
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If you're unhappy with your life, but despite that feeling you're unable to change things, it could be a strong indicator for depression. Dreamer, loser and loner reads like lack of motivation, low self-esteem and loneliness. All symptoms of depression. I've been through this myself and while I couldn't see it for a long time, now I know life is full of joy and opportunity, there is really no need for anyone to describe himself as a loser. Depression is not a character flaw, it's a disease. I can only encourage you to seek for psychological help. You don't have to be ashamed and you can only win by doing so.
FWIW, Nokia L&C does not have "massive development teams" working on HTML5 visualization of geo-data, quite the opposite...
I'd like to recommend a book for you: The War of Art
http://www.amazon.com/War-Art-Through-Creative-Battles/dp/19...

It's a very short book, but it may change your life. Read it twice. It is for procrastinators. I'm one of the worst there is, yet this book has helped me tremendously, and helped a ton of others as well.

Good luck
What an idiotic response! Instead of moving to SSL or adding a signature check, they just disable the auto-update and tell you to visit their non-SSL site.
Good luck =)

The longest journey begins with a single step.
Databases are for...
Gynandromorphs - part female and part male organisms
i need just multiple tags per feed
Indeed; there's absolutely nothing new here for those of us who lived through the '70s, e.g.: http://www.csmonitor.com/1980/0701/070114.html
Dreaming is necessary but not sufficient for great accomplishments.

This reminds me of a great line I ran into somewhere: "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

EDITED to add: ah, through the magic of the Web I discover that this quote is from Thoreau. I've corrected my misquotation.
here's one i just made http://fakerestaurant.cibarsi.com/

The way it knows how to format the menu is awesome btw... great job.
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How does making it multiple steps help the end user? It pops up a dialog recommending you update. As a user, I have zero way to know if the new driver is going to mess everything up. So automatic or not, I'll still be in the same position.
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Take baby steps. Whatever you do, start with something small. A project you can finish in not more than 2 months would be ideal.

If you want to establish a business, don't invent something new, pick an existing business and compete. Pick a business that interest you, and you think you are passionate enough to stay with it. Running a business is a marathon and not a sprint.
Though I want to like the idea (restaurant websites are incredibly broken as a species), your onboarding flow is really messed up. The confirmation email was in italian, though everything else up to that point had been english. The confirmation link (http://www.cibarsi.com/attiva?token=gVngeWcA) results in an error page.
I don't have any counter-evidence to show if the incubator trend is a bubble or not so I am not going to argue along those lines.

I have a very different perspective to offer. I live in Pakistan where there is an energy crisis so serious we don't have electric power half the day. It is in these challenging conditions that we are trying to establish ourselves as a tech startup. Perhaps this is not such an issue in SV but incubators can play a very crucial role in places where the conditions are not so ideal .

For example the incubator we have here, apart from providing seed money and mentoring, provides 24/7 power supply, connects us with businesses abroad (huge benefit, because no one wants to do business with a Pakistani startup, right?), is trying to get some foreign investors on board, etc. In effect, an ecosystem is being built and I dont see how it could have been possible without an incubator at its center.

Perhaps in SV these things dont even matter but they can be the difference between survival and failure in lesser developed ecosystems.
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Though it was before my time, Eisenhower seems to have been pretty good. I liked Goldwater too, though he didn't make it.
Kite, though it's not ready for production yet:

https://github.com/jscheid/kite
> First, who are you accountable to? Saying "HN" is too easy. Find someone who will keep you on track with this.

Actually, I already found someone. Right before posting this. It was my motivation to "come out" in the first place.

> Second, what's your plan?
Start building stuff. Starting tomorrow morning.
And who's to say long-term user engagement predictions had anything to do with the valuation? If you were Drew Houston and had all the resources of Dropbox to leverage using what appears to be one of the most popular mobile email applications in the world, what could you come up with? How much would it be worth to have a credible vehicle with which to compete directly with Google Mail, for instance?
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Good luck Stefan. Just keep trying. I've had lots of failures, but ya just gotta keep at it.
> Lots of people don't want content discovery or anything smart. They just want a list of articles from feeds.

I would add that now content discovery is very boring, I don't remember receiving previously unknown recommendations in a field that I know.
Hey Stefan,

Take it or leave it, but I started www.Earbits.com 3 years ago, when I was 32 years old. For all of my professional experience, so little of it has helped me prepare for the challenges of building Earbits. My co-founder is one year older than me and his professional experience before Earbits was almost exclusively music production and composition. Now, not only does he manage the music department of Earbits, but most of our sales, editorial content, accounting, and frankly, he is the yin to my yang that balances out Earbits in so many ways.

30 is a great age to start something new and significant. The first startup I worked for took 5 years to sell for $15M. You could be retired by 35. Get on it. If you want to chat, email me. -Joey
Larger dynos would mean it would be easier to run JVM apps. Looking forward to that!
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I don't have too much time left. My 20ies are gone.

This, and I mean it in a kind way, is totally batshit absurd and thinking this way will only hold you back. I know the feeling. I felt it myself and spun my wheels for years because of it.

When I turned 30, I had just graduated from business school (which I went to because I couldn't figure out what to do with my life). I had never built a real piece of software, and object oriented programming seemed to be too much for me - I too had started that journey with C++ and failed. (For me, it was Ruby that made it click, for what it's worth).

So here I am, 30, with some interest in technology with an MBA and no programming skill. I truly thought I had wasted the last 8 years of my life since college. What was I doing during those years. I was working at NASA. On the Hubble Space Telescope. I was paid to scuba dive with astronauts and build hardware that would fly in space. I own not one, but TWO pieces of the actual Hubble Space Telescope that flew in space. Looking back, that job was a dream come true - jobs do not get much better. But at 30, looking forward I thought it had all been a waste of time - my 20's were gone, and I was woefully unprepared for the business I wanted to start. There were people smarter, younger, and more successful than me everywhere I looked.

It was a ridiculous way to think for me, and it is for you too. Enjoy life, and don't compare your inside to someone else's outside.
You just quoted my favorite Chinese saying. For the record, 千里之行，始于足下
Publishers will make or break RSS, not readers
why? do you have any proof/calculations? what you're stating seems unintuitive to me. would't you expect intelligent routing and random routing to converge in the limit of many concurrent processes?
Stefan,

Lower your expectations. Be grateful for your health and living in a developed country like Switzerland. You have awesome mountains there.

Startups are an escapist fantasy for millions of people. I would guess 99% of web startups make no money. Most HN readers are in the same situation as you, but that doesn't make them losers. Enjoy life and think of your startup like a lottery ticket.
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Who do you think threw Greece under the bus?
“Intelligent routing” is round robin and requires knowledge of the number of request handlers. It's not intelligent at all, it just means that you are ruling out high concurrency servers.

If you would extend the whole thing to have a negotiation protocol that lets the load balancer know how loaded the individual backend processes are then you could start talking about intelligent routing. That however currently does not exist in the Ruby world.
We use Node.js on our backend, were involved in some of the work that led to libuv being split out from node core, and were already planning to use Lua based on our experience with the Cloudkick agent. All told, when we saw what Tim was doing with luvit it seemed like a natural fit.
mainnav element is unnecessarily wide. Also too much of spacing between the elements in top-bar.

The margin to "About" in the mainnav looks a bit odd. Is it required?

The contents of the mainnav is oddly placed. I feel it can be organized from left to right in terms of usability to users. Like Downloads and Documentation first rest should follow in the respective orders.

The latest news can be placed somewhere in the first page itself for better visibility. Users has to scroll down now to see it.
Why is a single app mapped to multiple routers? Why not just map it to one?
There's already a lot of negativity on this thread, suggesting that they only care about this because they're facing bad PR and lawsuits.

I'm inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt. They made a reasonable engineering and product tradeoff to increase their system's scalability, decrease it's latency, and allow new kinds of applications that are able to serve more than one request at once (eg. node.js servers holding onto tons of idle websockets).

Given an increasingly large infrastructure (which makes stronger queueing much harder if you don't want to add a lot of latency) and strong requests from customers to allow other languages that don't fit into the "one fast request per process" paradigm, I can absolutely see making that tradeoff. It makes the infrastructure simpler (and thus more robust), cuts some latency, and makes the many loud customers who wanted to run things like node.js happy.

Doing so, I would have been aware that in some cases, this would lead to suboptimal routing that increased latency, but I never really would have thought it would have as devastating effects on an application's overall performance as Rap Genius saw.

So yes, they do care a lot more about this issue now that there has been a big stir about it, but I think it's reasonable to assume that this may be more because they've realized it can have a huge impact on overall latency rather than a moderate one, and that it's come to their attention that some of their messaging and docs hadn't been updated reflecting the routing change.

But given how great of a company Heroku usually is, the fact that it is not in their interest to decrease their quality of service, and that there are very legitimate reasons to move away from intelligent routing (namely, the facts that it doesn't really make sense for applications that can do multiple requests concurrently and that it is extremely difficult to scale), I'm inclined to believe that this is more a mistake than a malicious lack of concern for their customer's well-being that they are only addressing due to vocal outside pressure.
> money and position will only marginally improve your internal world

Maybe at a certain level, but for most people, money and position would provide both the resources and the freedom to live as they "truly want".
Actually, that would have been a better!
Nope, you're right. But he also has no fundamental right to get paid for being the first to magnetize his hard drive in a certain configuration.
That does change things. Debt restructuring is a bit like musical chairs. If there was truly no group left to haircut, to avoid default this had to be done.

On the other hand, that €10B euro could have come from somewhere outside the country, especially since it was the forced Greek bond haircut that caused the crisis. I find it hard to believe that northern Europe isn't taking advantage of this crisis to increase their influence.
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Considering the incredible amount you have already achieved, I am optimistic.
Interesting, have you tried Checkvist (I'm the dev)?
That sir, is very good advice. Thank you!
Previous poll 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2368964
clearly, there is no fair, well-defined measurement for 'bad comment', except for the number of upvotes and downvotes. if now votes themselves were voted, and in turn those were recursively voted; we would end up in a ridiculous web site where diversity does not prevail and majority suppresses minority.
OK, as another posted put it well, that line was "too melodramatic". Apologies. I do admit that I'm a bit desperate.
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Intuition & insight in the process of design
>Find something that needs to be built (preferably by someone other than yourself).

>The reason you're stuck is because you're too focused on yourself. Remember, it's not about you. It's about others.

I disagree. Often times, great projects start with "scratching a developer's personal itch" (ex: Linux kernel).

If you try to build something for others, it will often be boring and unmotivated. You have to be passionate about making exciting & new things. Most importantly, hack for fun, not to satisfy someone else and get profit.
Come on.

The "terms" are that I get direct access to the SQL database behind your application for free. You can mess around with your bullshit rights-management "privilege" and "account management" features all you want.

You know exactly what I'm talking about. You know exactly how dumb these "terms" are. Might does not make right. And if you're going to make a stand for some set of principals, can't you find something better to fight for than free mainstream movies?
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Random routing seems okay if you think only about busy servers under light load. However, one of the problems is it creates light servers when under heavy over-all load. Any time a server is idle during a high overall demand period is work opportunity that is irreversibly lost. I made this argument in the single-thread 2-server case here http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2013/02/randomized-algorithms... , but he principle applies much more generally.
This is by design.

The more people that uses ST2, the more people that buys it.

Preventing people from using it will only make them look for and use an alternative.

You may call it 'DRM by guilt' if you wish.
I like the idea of a website builder for restaurants because the majority of their websites suck - they're either flash OR they want you to download a PDF. However, there are a lot of competitors in this space such as:

http://www.happytables.com/ - who are using a Wordpress Backend which I'm pointing out because

http://en.wordpress.com/restaurants/ - Wordpress are offering designs for Restaurants as well

http://www.letseat.at/

http://www.bistrosquare.com/

http://www.restaurantors.com/

However, I noticed that you actually launched on HN, 192 days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4483473 - which I'm assuming didn't give you a massive uptick in the signups that you wanted which is why I have a few suggestions:

First of all your website is a little bare, I would add more content etc onto the site, with additional pages etc. Likewise, I'd also make it clearer that you can click on the tablet etc to view the demo restaurant websites as well.

Have a look at your rivals (some of who I mentioned above) and you can see that they all have a considerable amount of content on their websites which encourage non-technical users (the ones with 100 toolbars on their browsers) to trust them more than you.

Likewise, you don't really have what I call an “Effective SEO” plan in place so you should start to get this going as quickly as possible - some of your rivals have been covered by high authority websites as well meaning, you need to get this started ASAP.

The “Effective SEO” plan goes back to the earlier point about lack of content on your website as well, which is something you definitely need to add. Once you have done that you need to focus on the following:

- Advertising & Partnerships With Sites In Your Niche

- Off-line Marketing (inc. word of mouth & traditional ads)

- Bloggers & Other Webmasters Within AND Outside Your Niche

- Online Communities e.g. Relevant Forums etc

- Social Media Channels - Twitter, YouTube etc

- Capture Future Leads (Newsletter Subscribers etc)

- Effective Site Branding
You can at least be conservative by saying "don't touch any software on my machine, I like how it works now".

You can see what bugs were fixed and what features were added and choose to include or not include. At worst you can google and find out how this update affected other users.
The funny thing about success is that it's highly subjective and sometimes the perception of failure is just a issue of narrow perspective.

If during the course of working toward some arbitrary goal you enjoy yourself and learn something then you have accomplished something that is more important than most end results.

What you do for a living does not define you as a person. It's just the shortcut that others use to categorize other people into easy to quantify values for comparison. You can certainly through the course of your professional life enact change that touches the everyday lives of countless people. The majority of actions that change lives though are the plain, boring, and downright ordinary actions of the majority. The combined machinations of our every day lives and how we impact those directly connected to us are just as important as that next disruptive idea that shifts culture.

Live inspired and find joy in the things that really matter.
Computation should be at the same level of importance as reading, writing and arithmetic, given that no other paradigm is contributing more to job obsolescence right now.

But, sure, you can be productive without understanding computation. I should have said "maximally productive". Even a chef benefits from understanding how recipes mimic algorithms.
...Enhance
Got it. Works perfect.
Very easy to setup. Could add more pages to the content.
My hat's off to you for being so vulnerable and courageous. I don't have any advice but wish you the best and thank you for sharing this thread. I can relate to so much of what you have said.
The post misses the role Reader played in the ecosystem. It may have been intended as a content discovery app, but it actually became a content creation tool.

When I was a journalist, Reader was my main research tool. I didn't care about what was trending. I wanted to find things before they became trends. I subscribed to lots of obscure blogs and publications, and Reader allowed me to skim them very quickly for items of possible importance. I was also able to go back and search all of my feeds for interesting material.

I think this article sums it best: Killing Google Reader is like killing the bees - http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2013/mar/15/google...
I got ROF-LLOL. It's quite the conversation starter, ha.
Stop posting on Hacker News and start getting shit done.

Good luck.
Look, I can't tell if that funny bump on your neck is malignant and I can't tell if that 99.1F fever is worth going to a doctor about and I can't tell you if you should eat less gluten and I can't tell from a message board comment if you have a mental illness.

I don't care what you want to call it; "depression", "desperation", "determination". All I can tell you is that if you are convinced (not "worried"; we all worry sometimes) that you're a "loser" or that this is your "last chance" to do something meaningful, that's not normal. If you were a friend of mine, I'd be hassling you to find a professional you could trust to work that stuff out.

Hey, either way: best of luck to you. Your career will be fine.
An extremely naive implementation of a morally dubious idea. Not a good advert for the company behind it.

Would a good solution be to have your browser spoof the user agent to FF21?
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Doesn't work for me in Chrome 27.

I'd love to have one that accurate emulates the real animation.
Don't be so hard on yourself. "Building a business" is one of the most difficult adventures you can take in life. Stop worrying about how much time you have too, that is ridiculous. I have family friends in retirement (65+ years old) that are building incredible little niche companies. What do you want to build?
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