I wouldn't trust this entry at all. The author did not do proper research to understand the why's behind the headers that he didn't understand or didn't know well enough.

There's no way to private message on HN, so I'm just going to leave this here for a little while and delete it.

Call me at -------. I will talk. I will listen. It will be private and not judgemental. I'm not a professional mental health specialist of any sort, but I do feel like when it gets to the point where you actually type out the words like this hearing a friendly voice might help. I'm awake. I'm ready for a call right now. If you don't want to talk today, call me tomorrow, next week, next month, whenever. Write down my number because I can't leave it posted.

1-800-273-8255 <- these people are professionals and can help too.

edit: If you didn't get the number and want it, leave a reply and I'll post again.

Suicide is not a reasonable choice. Quit. Reset. Declare bankruptcy if you have to. There's no dishonor in a personal struggle.

Money isn't the answer to most of life's problems. Getting in with the right company isn't the solution either.

These jobs are all just jobs. Garnering the approval of a hiring manager at one of these companies should be an ego boost, but not garnering it is no failure at all. It's not a measure of your aptitude or abilities. It's not a measure of you as a person.

It's very easy to get caught up in the moment and get caught up in the pressure of a work environment and lose sight of what matters.

What matters first and foremost is your own mental health. Take care of you. Nobody else can.

For a long time I've been saying that we can do better with online advertising and revenue generation - and that there's a wide open market for the startup providing the solution.

There are a lot of practices that are distasteful that simply don't provide value that overrides their distastefulness.

But quite simply the revenue is there to be had, and nobody is going to venture off in a new direction when you can make easy money doing exactly what everybody else is doing.

The market may shift with GDPR, or it may just shift in europe. Or maybe the market doesn't shift at all, but some company policies change. I think in the end what causes the current incarnation of internet advertising to go away is going to just be a better idea.

Yes. There wouldn't be so many different vendor solutions if it wasn't. I wouldn't say that the complexity isn't warranted, and it obviously can be wrangled in and once you know it it's not all that bad.

Conversely, it wouldn't be as popular as it is if the value it provided wasn't clear.

There have been instances where peering agreements were problematic. I remember Sprint being a part of one. Not sure if they were the problem causer or the victim, but I do remember their network being cut off in a major way for a short period in the 90s while contracts were hammered out.

As if Facebook wasn't already eating more than it's share of battery life.

I read this as a metaphor and it seemed quite apt.

When I grew up I would just show up at peoples houses. I'd be running around town doing this or that and "oh yeah... so and so lives over here" and I'd knock on the door and hang out or better yet come up with an adventure to go on and grab some other people.

I don't think I've knocked on someone's door without them expecting me to be there in at least 10 years.

Yeah, I really miss this. It doesn't help that I moved across the country in my early 20s and never developed any decent friendships since then.

500M sounds like a lot. It's a gigantic number.

But where call records are concerned it's not actually that big. I could pick out 100 mid-sized businesses and double that number readily. And that's not even thinking about text messages.

500M text messages. That's like 1 high school.