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Did you also wet your bed and have affinity for setting things on fire?

don't think I would've ever read it without the word Sex in the title. Not a lot of headlines here have the word Sex in them. YC needs a sexual revolution.

I think the actual software programmer job working for a company is different than someone working alone erratic hours, building apps, marketing, selling, and breaking even. It's quite challenging in itself to produce good software product let alone selling it and breaking even so it'd be interesting to see some statistics for single founder startups or micro software vendors.

I would say the stress is the biggest for SaaS type of software products, as someone posted a video here about "Constant Contact", it's described as the slow ramp of death because it takes so long and hard to reach that magic upward slope.

These are all just my magical assumptions based on my own situation and experience. I'm sure there's ton of positive, empathetic, emotionally intelligent coder/hacker/entrepreneurs although there's lot of Aspies, who studies have shown to be greater risk of depression.

Also a more interesting question would be, are people working in startup, especially single software vendors more susceptible to depression? Look at Aaron Schwartz guy, all those times he was depressed, look at his increasingly erratic and tendency towards martyrdom. The pressure from idiot zealots finally tipped him.

Heroin helped me beat my bouts of depression, although the downside being extremely addictive which seems to bring you right back where you started but in all honesty, depression is caused by fixation, ironically heroin taught me how to relax and "let go" of the angst caused by fixation while at the same time my mind was completely fixated on it. To each his own, you gotta stop reading about how to cure an illness, you have to act, find meaning even though it's meaningless.

All very good alternatives of course.

Everything you've described is pretty stupid. I hope nobody is working on the next Google killer or yeah another Facebook alternative. All the big names were purely by accident and luck. Tell this to the graveyard of all the smart ideas that never took off because the market didn't need them.

Why is it a waste of time? There are plenty of good solutions now like Hipache.

Nice try, not going to point specific fingers at certain environments out of risk getting flamed.

Ah yes. My early days in junior high school were spent trying to infect the school library computers so I could use free internet. Nostalgia.

This, this. Much of our Western culture is centered around the individual and their ideas which must be respected, no matter how ridiculous it sounds, if it's someone wearing hipster glasses.

Yes, quite literally there's more library than we developers/hackers can play with. I've spent a lot of time just browsing through all of them and they are all excellent. But there seems to be 3 types of npm modules on github, 1) active and mature 2)fairly new, stagnating, seldom active 3) abandoned.

Pretty much the same case here, I've abandoned LAMP stack completely. There's no need anymore, I am tired of having to google how to setup Apache config on some esoteric distro to see it fail when traffic spikes, I am not getting the best bang for the buck but with NodeJS, everything is so much easier.

What about for Canadians? Are we left out in the dark again? God damn it.

How does Streak work? Is it a browser add on I need to install or does Google let developers create their own hacks? Btw, you should also consider putting up ads of Steak on your website. I misread Streak for Steak, and have been craving for some medium rare steak. I wonder if Streak.com could become the Amazon of steak delivery.

There's never a shortage of stupid things and the stupid people willing to throw money at some rosy prospects. ie. Facebook.

yeah I saw the page in one of my tabs, and said "waht is this crap?" and closed it only to find out in another tab that this page linked to that hideous site.