That was my first thought. How are they ordering pizzas? I could see a backend portal combined with phone calls working well, but I doubt that a stereotypical tech startup is comfortable using humans to order. And if I ran a Dominos pizza store, I would certainly find an automated order by text-to-speech or email to be fraudulent and ignore it.
Biometrics are immutable! I don't think anybody's going to cut your arm off to steal a television with. However, extremely secure environments certainly avoid biometrics as a "single factor" for this reason.
Datacenter staffing in the cloud is fairly easy; only about 6 or so are needed on-prem for HVAC and hands-on. The rest are remote. Many cloud datacenters are able to be located in extremely obscure locations because of this.
I wouldn't be so fast about getting medicated. There are well known side effects. I don't think that is the solution, at least right now. I'm not sure about this obsession with getting medicated for every problem, honestly. If I got medicated for every issue I've had in my life, I would be in debt.
To answer to the original question, one of the easiest and potentially best solutions is to pick up an sport if you don't practice one and to spend more time with other things besides programming. Forget about programming for a few weeks. Do your college duties and don't spend more time than that. Go do other stuff. I've gone (and still do sometimes) through the exact same thing.
12. Never do drugs. This just amplifies your problems.
Your points #1 and #12 are a nice big contradiction.
Anti-depression drugs in particualr tend to have rather significant side-effects, which can last for a decade after you've stopped taking the drug.
Going to drugs to help against depression should be a plan C kind of a thing. Changing your environment and activities should be well tested before that.
My guess is that GP is not native American (or a native of other English-speaking country). As a non-native, it took me some time to grok that the term "drugs" can mean both "medicines" (like aspirin) and "addictive substances" (like alcohol, tobacco or cocaine). I suspect GP is referring exclusively to the second meaning. For instance, in Polish, we always use separate words for those two concepts.
Well depends how you look at it. They are pretty much the same in many cases. There are plenty of "drugs" that aren't addictive and plenty of "medicines" that are. Is caffeine a medicine or a drug in your view? I don't see as much of a distinction as you would appear to.
Again, I'm not saying there is much difference - just that there are languages that use two separate words for those concepts and don't have a (common) one for both.
For example, in Polish you'd classify aspirin as a medicine ("lek", "lekarstwo") and caffeine as a stimulating substance ("używka"). There is another word that is used to refer to harmful addictive substances like cocaine ("narkotyk"). There is no generally used word in Polish that encompasses all three terms.
Sure, you shouldn't rush to get medicated, but you should be open to medication as an option. I believe depression is often chemically caused, and if you've tried healthy living, meditation, etc., there are many good, relatively benign, well tested medical options out there.
Indeed. Medication are not silver bullets and usually won't solve problems alone, but a right pill may be just what's needed to enable you to deal with the problems. Personally, I'm on SSRIs and (despite getting a common side effect) I'm very happy with them - even though I still suffer from depression symptoms, they're nowhere near the level I had before getting those pills, which pretty much restored my ability to hold my head above water.
Definitely this. I fought depression (originally PPD, but didn't go away) without medication for three years. Tried exercise, sunshine, B vitamins, volunteering, etc, etc. When I finally went to the doctor the medication working was such a huge relief, because nothing else did.
Consider your state of mind. Contemplate and act on potential adjustments. This, too, shall pass. Put out feelers. Find an understanding, not "sympathetic" professional. Also, pull your pants up and get to work.
Having spent a long time on medication for depression in the past, I can verify this. There's a lot you can do to help yourself before trying medication. Exercise and learning to manage your emotions are a great place to start and can help a lot more than most people think. It definitely has a time and place, but the side effects can be a lot more drastic (and sometimes detrimental) than a lot of people expect.
Rather than taking medication, you may want to take some supplements with 5-HTP, a precursor of serotonin. IE: Griffonia Simplicifolia.. It does have far less side-effects, no dependency.. Far less popular with the pharma industry because not patentable..
I will agree with Volunteerism. That was the best thing to help my mood, because, while I wasn't getting paid for it, I was among people who were genuinely happy to see you and talk to you.
Neither DNSSEC on Route53. Plenty of technologies are just not available on 'insert popular cloud provider of today'. That's why not everyone there where everyone-else.
Why the downvotes? Just because I said something negative about DNSSEC? DNSSEC is a bad solution. More well informed minds than HackerNews have come out as to why DNSSEC is a bad idea. I'm not being mean or spiteful. It really isn't going to work.
They've been working on it for at least three years. We were really interested in deploying our application on the AWS infrastructure, until they made it clear that IPv6 wasn't going to happen for the foreseeable future. I guess they do get good marks for being transparent on their roadmap and not getting our hopes up.
They might have had issues with various gear, tooling, etc. You'd be surprised how many routing vendors screwed up IPv6 subnetting. Hence, why you need to assign a /126 on PtP links for some gear, instead of a /127. Some vendors still thought IPv6 had a broadcast address (it doesn't). Sure that's just an example and doesn't preclude them from offering it, but maybe they're conservative and wanted to get everything working right before releasing it?
Also, some older gear routed/forwarded IPv6 in software; making it much slower.
Our biggest problem had nothing to do with network hardware. It all came down to developers still writing IP regex's wrong for our app. Maybe I should write an e-book "IPv6 for the node/jquery developer?"
tl;dr it's not in Amazon's market interests to delay IPv6 adoption
"Some vendors still thought IPv6 had a broadcast address"
I have never known anyone working with IPv6 for more than a day who doesn't understand that IPv6 does not have a broadcast address. I do not believe any vendor writing a routing stack would fail to understand that. Though, I do agree in early days, they screwed things up. For example, Dell would not route RFC 4193 (FC/7) addresses around 2005. I had to rip out and ship back a dozen of their routers when I realized they weren't going to fix that.
I think you might be onto something about gear though - I've read that Amazon builds their own routers, and routing stack - which means they can't simply deploy a well tested/regressed IPv6 stack, they have to write and test it from scratch. The dark side of doing everything yourself.
