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I've dealt with a couple major depressive episodes in my life. In addition to the standard advice of 'Go see a therapist!' heres some things that help for me:

1) Committing to myself that I'm getting out of this state, and reminding myself that I'm working on fixing it. Then having the leniency on myself that depression is not a solved problem, and I will keep trying until I actually have accomplished my goal - however unclear my progress may be.

2) Consistently enforcing myself to complete small achievable goals. For me, this is stuff like: getting out of bed within 3 minutes of my alarm going off, having an ironed shirt, show up at the gym and do some sort of exercise daily.

If you have motivational trouble, start with even smaller goals eg 'I will put water in my cereal bowl after I put it in the sink so the milk doesnt dry and get gross.' Then work up to 'I will put the bowl in the dish washer after I am done with it.'

3) Creating arguments for why everything is actually all okay. Many of them don't convince me, eg 'You've got a steady income', but some of them do eg 'Well I've read several papers that forcing yourself to smile releases neurochemicals that make you happier' was pretty convincing.

4) http://examine.com/topics/Depression I'm not a medical professional, but the evidence gathered for supplements listed on this site is convincing. In addition to Fish Oil and Saffron, I've seen a lot of evidence for supplementing Vitamind D and found it to be very helpful.

5) Go see a therapist that you like and respect. It was important to me to find one who I thought was smart and practical - I didn't want a ooshy gooshy feelings therapist. I've had the most success with CBT.

6) Learn to refocus your thoughts. This is tough, but, the worst part of depression for me is often the sad thoughts that come with it. I find that days are better when I don't allow myself to indulge in thinking sad thoughts. So this means 1) catching myself when I've starting thinking something sad 2) Successfully putting my thought train on a non-negative track.

If you take the meds, just be aware of the side effects of being on the meds and also be aware of the side effects of coming off the meds. I've found no doctor that really sufficiently warns of these.

If you ever want to chat, my email address is in the link in my profile.
Having an employee micromanage this will actually cost you more money over time.
What I'm going to say here is going to be extremely controversial. I ask you to think carefully about what I'm about to write before raising any objections mid way through. I've helped a lot of people get through depression when meds/basic advice(exercise, meditation, etc) just wasn't working.

1. First, figure out if it's your situation. Chronic stress that comes from a source outside your control is number one cause of depression. Most people are depressed because they lie to themselves saying they are working at a job/going to school for something they love but they really don't. The little voice in the back of your head that tells you maybe you should actually pursue EXACTLY what you want out of life, instead of telling yourself doing it the 'safe way' is better, safer or it's just what supposed to be. Because at that point even though you raise the stress level, you allow the stress to come from a source that you CAN control (you are finally in charge and are doing EXACTLY what you want in life) instead of from an uncontrolled source (shitty manager, company stock falling, you don't get along with your peers and can't change teams).

2. Stop running away from negative feelings. Learn to have a perverted attraction for mishaps. You don't actively seek trouble or purposely put yourself in situations, but you simply learn to love the fact how life just won't give you what you demand 99% of the time, and it will let you cherish the time that it does. Learn that it is okay when things go bad, it is not the end of the world, it is not unfair, you are not damned. It is merely unpleasant and annoying, but life is full of that.

3. Poor omega 3 - 6 ratio. Not enough DHA. Among other nutrition advice, this is probably the most prevalent. Start eating omega-3 organic eggs and wild caught salmon every day for breakfast. Both those foods are extremely high in omega 3, and unlike plant omega 3's, the animal sources contain DHA which is essential for neurogenesis on prefrontal cortex neurons. Those neurons are essential for willpower, motivation, and decision making.

4. Take uridine supplements (sublingually) and make sure you get adequate choline intake. Uridine + Choline + DHA increases the rate of neurogenisis than simply DHA alone. Most people with depression have under developed pre frontal cortex neurons, which exacerbate the symptoms of depression. Before people freak out about drugs/nootropics, choline is found in highest ammounts in eggs, beef livers, chicken hearts. Chicken breast/wings/thighs also contain a fair amount of it. Choline is essential for proper memory funciton as well. Uridine occurs naturally in spirulina. I recommend you buy bulk powder of Uridine online since if you take it sublingually, it is about 9 times more effective. Oral capsules for uridine are pretty expensive. I use powdercity.com.
Take that, everyone other than straight white young men!
Not that I have any love for Asterisk, but modern versions can handle that load. As can FreeSWITCH despite its... interesting... threading model, as can OpenSIPS. On top of that, who cares what a single process can run? It's better to run one per core anyways. I had several servers, each running several FS instances and scaling wasn't really an issue.

I even ran a 5 nines 9-1-1 service off Asterisk, as embarrassing as that is. We missed one call in 18 months during a hard maintenance cutover, but handled it manually, but of course it was only one part and relied on the rest of the PSTN.

With a SIP proxy in an HA setup, almost surely the biggest downtime is going to be operator error or IP connectivity issues. Or someone changing their signalling subtly, but OTOH 5ESS and DMS aren't totally identical in behavior either.

(Though fair enough, the "software" guys haven't shown the same uptimes, overall, as the old style switching, true.)
Although you have to wonder how places with right laws compete with places with wrong laws. Oh I know. You make another law to fix that?
Digital Native, eh?

I've been on the Internet since '86, when my dad was at school at Purdue. I had a commodore 64, and 2 1541 drives. One was hacked by me for bootlegging.

I did the BBS'es but found them boring when compared to the 'net. I could also get into newsgroups which had a wealth of knowledge and the connections to talk to the greats of CompSci.

I remember when we got our first dialup service, back when there here dozens of ISPs, and when Windows didn't have an IP layer. I remember setting up my own FreeBSD server to handle networking and dialup mediation (was 13). I lucked in at an auction and got a SunSparc lunchbox. Crazy computer.

I obtained my amateur radio license, as well as learning about analog circuitry and tubes. That's old, even by the previous generation's standards. And yet, I now 3d print tube sockets for my 300+ collection of tubes. Hard to buy them these days, so I make them. Oh, and I'm also good at 3d design.

I saw the advent of Google, and how it overtook Yahoo, Altavista, Lycos, and other older search engines. I remember Napster, Kazaa, and others. I still have the first file ever bittorrented, porn. I remember when I heard about the Harvard social network, The Facebook. I knew it would kill MySpace, even then.

I'm 33. Am I too old for "Digital Native"?
At least in the UK, that's not the case. You cannot, for instance, specify that only white people need to apply. Not unless you can make a functional argument for why it is a business need that only white people apply. And age is, as far as I'm aware, a protected characteristic in this regard.

Of course, one might claim by asking for "digital natives" one is not discriminating on the basis of age. But this feels like a rather disingenuous claim. Asking for computer skills is not discriminating on the basis of age, but asking that someone be "native" to an environment that did not exist when they were younger is. The older person might be very skilled with computers, but since they were not young when computers were prevalent they are not "native."

And yes, one might make an argument that this was not what they meant by the term "digital native", but it is a questionable enough argument that I would not want to rely on it in court. Not when there are terms that relate more directly to the skills concerned, which do not carry the same connotations of discrimination in this regard.
Define unbearable. Up until 10.10.2 the OS X window server was a bit sluggish. Now it's tolerable for my purposes.
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The term "Digital Native" is one of my biggest pet peeves. I once asked Howard Rhinegold if he felt there was any justification to the "digital natives" idea and he expressed that in his experience in teaching freshmen at both Stanford and Cal, there was no such person.

I started playing with computers in the late 70's. Got my first job working in video arcades in the early 80's. Got my webmaster job in '94. If my kids are digital natives, what does that make me?

edited for clarity
The technology doesn't matter

From Wikipedia

"Social media are computer-mediated tools that allow people to create, share or exchange information, ideas, and pictures/videos in virtual communities and networks." (Someone added "Web 2.0" later there but it's immaterial. Well, HN lets you vote without refreshing the page, I guess that's "Web 2.0")

The content is driven by users, either by creating (FB, Twitter) and/or curating it (Pinterest AND HN) -> Social Media
>In my experience people really are either amazing or terrible and those that are amazing are super passionate about programming, think about it and study it all the time...

I enjoy programming but I don't spend every waking second thinking about it. If that makes me a terrible programmer then thats fine with me. I'd rather be happy than be killing myself working 16 hours a day like some people like to glorify.
The one point consistently being missed is that many open source licenses carry a "taint" with them that causes most commercial companies to avoid them. What does it mean to propagate a program? If an employee checks out a personal copy outside of business hours, is that propagation, or modification of the single licensed copy that the business owns? When two employees modify the code simultaneously, who owns the copies? The amount of taint is irrelevant, either one included license taints it or no included license taints it.

Once a bit of copyleft code is modified and included in a binary, the legal question of whether the result is open source is not trivial and certainly open for discussion. That being said, it is certainly the intention of many people releasing the code under copyleft licenses that any modified work be open source. It is completely unfair to project the idea that all people siding with Mr. Aleynikov do so solely due to animosity towards Goldman Sachs.

It is completely circumstantial that he tried to hide the fact that he made a personal copy. It is often best to avoid having a discussion. I try to hide from my parents the fact that my wife and I... well you get the idea.
Oh yeah, you are right to criticize the Leaf on that front. You would think if they were going to make a really weird looking car like that, they could at least take advantage of the relaxed design constraints and make it super efficient...

The Tesla Model S on the other hand clocks in at 0.24, which is literally the best you can get on any production car right now. Admittedly this advantage might be partially cancelled out by the larger frontal area, but I think it's still noteworthy.
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Yeah, Hackernews is basically pg's guestbook and it needs more MIDI.
It's using drag to scroll
It's not just the cost of moving either. If you are poor your job is not likely to pay you when you aren't there, and jobs you would be looking at in the new location aren't flying you out for an interview. Chances are you'd be without any income for quite a while. Even if you aren't living completely paycheck to paycheck, that gap in time will likely eat up any money you might have put aside for rental deposits, utility hook up, etc.

Anecdotal, but, I do know people who have moved because of the promise of work elsewhere. Some wound up benefiting and turning their life around. Some wound up on the street. These people were all young with no children. As a parent, it would be very difficult for me to make the decision to move somewhere on a gamble that things would turn out ok. I'd honestly probably choose to continue to barely scrape by, but still feed my kids and keep a roof over their heads than I would gamble that we become homeless.

I'm glad I "won the life lottery" and don't have to make these kinds of choices for my family. I have a lot of compassion for those who do.
Editing a wiki is the kind of experience that is much more valuable to employers than social networking or most common online activities for most occupations, with the exception of marketing/PR-specific roles. Collaborative work on a wiki involves teamwork, research, editing, effective communication, and a whole host of other skills that are useful in a business setting. Blabbing to your friends on Facebook or Twitter doesn't develop these skills.
I suspect that an FB account for Facebook is "Mandatory" (because a lot of work is done "inside" FB - think of it as their internal comm tool, but of course you don't need to use it to post pictures of your weekend)
The Timeful team has built an impressive system that helps you organize your life by understanding your schedule, habits and needs. You can tell Timeful you want to exercise three times a week or that you need to call the bank by next Tuesday, and their system will make sure you get it done based on an understanding of both your schedule and your priorities.

I hope this will improve the "Snooze Someday" feature in Inbox, I'm not sure how this is supposed to work now.
I think it's in fact very true and there is a very good reason what that is the case.

Most expert know more and more about less and less because in order to understand something you need to dig ever deeper to understand the specifics.

What is needs is expert generalists that are able to understand several fields well enough to see where knowledge from one area can lead to understanding in others and vice versa.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system ("A bulletin board system, or BBS, is a computer server running custom software that allows users to connect to the system using a terminal program. Once logged in, the user can perform functions such as uploading and downloading software and data, reading news and bulletins, and exchanging messages with other users through email, public message boards, and sometimes via direct chatting.")

HN is actually a fairly primitive BBS running over TCP/IP.
> vast majority of voip routes tend not to measure up to their circuit switched counterparts

That's because circuit switching is literally setting up a wired connection between two points.

Good luck trying to be that reliable with a population the size of the Internet, and if you can, good luck being able to pay and maintain an infrastructure of that size.

> T.38 and RFC-2833 exist

Really? The last time I sent a fax was 2006.
No, employers are not allowed to come up with a code word that allows them to exclusively hire younger people. Switch "digital native" with "millennial" and see how that fairs in court.

Also, I really resent the implication on this one, like many in this thread. I grew up with a computer and digital communications before the internet.
Personally, what really gets me with the current publishing regime is how fashion-driven it is (at least in many parts of CS). Oftentimes, it feels like the most challenging aspect of producing publishable research at first is not rigor or novelty or writing a sufficiently readable complete paper but hitting something sufficiently "interesting"—largely a function of what happens to be popular at the moment.

Publishing has other issues, but they can be mitigated by releasing results in forms besides simple papers. (Again, I'm mostly talking about CS.) A lot of successful projects end up releasing blog posts, enhanced online resources, libraries or complete, living open source projects.

At least in CS, this is happening enough to be useful even if it is by no means universal. This even comes up in more theoretical fields—somebody recently pointed me to a website[1] on tree edit distance, which is a great example. (I really wish it had existed a few years ago when I needed the algorithm originally!)

[1]: http://www.inf.unibz.it/dis/projects/tree-edit-distance/
Anti psychotic medication, especialy depot injections, is very different to anti depressant tablets!
"Smart, talented, and can get the job done."

That's what I look for.

Also:

"Can they be coached?"

"Do they need coaching?"

"How is their personality?"

"How do they display passion?"
It specifically calls out recharging it to 50% every six months, so I assume it's a month+ kind of long term.

Also Apple seems to indicate that storage in a deep discharge state is far more damaging than storage at near-capacity based on the wording.

So if you're in doubt, charge it before you store it.

Finally, I don't think there's anything on that page that says you shouldn't keep your laptop plugged in when it's at 100%. I would be very surprised if they didn't have some cycle-conditioning going on. I have both a 2008 unibody and 2010 MBP, both essentially remaining plugged in for years. I don't think the battery life is abnormally low for their age, they still are capable of several hours of usage on battery.
I second the other comments suggesting to at least treat online advice with a grain of salt. That said...

I burned out some years ago and have been struggling with recovery since, depressive thoughts aren't far away but by now I've found coping mechanisms. It's annoying I don't feel I can talk about it with my real ID because I still don't feel like my performance and drive is even 80% what it used to be, and I fear that would impact my future chances of switching jobs if they discovered my inner struggles. But my performance seems to be enough for my coworkers to value me, so I keep going another day. I too almost lost my previous job during the early periods, but at the end of it I was valued again. (I just observe external praise, I never feel it. Whatever.)

I'm anti-big-med for myself, but I won't discourage you from taking them as a lot of people say they help and some even report total elimination of depressive thoughts. I would encourage you to see if extra caffeine helps you at all while you wait, especially as the big drugs tend to take 3-4 weeks before kicking in at all and caffeine seems to have a more immediate effect. How much caffeine do you take per day? If you don't take much, you may want to get a box of 200mg pills and try for 200-600mg per day and see if it helps you at all. Caffeine has some anti-inflammatory properties, and depression is increasingly being recognized as an inflammatory disease, plus caffeine as a stimulant itself can help with the focus. Anecdotally, what cripples me some days is never-ending introspection about my value to the world and my performance. Sometimes taking more caffeine than usual that day will allow me to shut my mind up about itself and think about other things, and that allows me to get things done. (Work, laundry, going to the gym.)

Last year I finally did start feeling like I was recovering a little bit, then my mom unexpectedly died. Expect life to continuously shit on you. But whatever. If you keep on keeping on you'll develop your own coping mechanisms (those that don't die) so even setbacks won't necessarily send you over the edge as you've been there before. Lastly, killing yourself in a nice way would take effort, it's not worth it. Just look forward to sleeping instead. You might also consider getting a pet, or a house plant -- something whose continued existence depends on your existence.
> Freedom is knowing that we are not bound by our class, our race, our religion,

Just as long as you're of Chinese ancestry, of course.
When I hear "digital native", I think of a generation familiar with Snapchat, Instagram, Vine, etc... So they would -somehow- be more familiar with creating content for those platforms.

I don't think it's an age issue.

Or else how can you not call someone who has been in the IT business for 30 years a "digital native"?

It is about what part of that "digital" you are dealing with.
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I don't think there is a war instinct directly. But when you mesh self preservation with social status you get weird interactions where you end up being compelled to attack so as to not lose face with your in group.

Damn it, the cold war almost went hot as much because neither side wanted to be the "weak man" and bend as it was because of a overt threat.
Looks like it is the only C# project in their github:
https://github.com/Netflix
mis-read that as cunts.
30mpg at $2.25/gal is 7.5c per mile. Versus 9c for an EV (7c battery, 2c elec), this is a $1500 over 100k miles. If we consider the other maintenance costs, I think they are nearly equivalent.
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Fitting in v. Belonging
I think this is more of a "You're mine now, but I'll eat you... later."
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