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cmp··on Zencoder (YC W10) Wants To Be The AWS Of Video Encoding
I'm hooked. Where's the Python api?
cmp··on Penny-Arcade TV on chronic anxiety and antidepressants
I was screwed, it was a bad experience, and I've learned.
cmp··on Penny-Arcade TV on chronic anxiety and antidepressants
Psych-ERs are some of the most dehumanizing places I've ever been, and given the start of social services in North Central Texas. shudder Unfortunately, without insurance, any prescription usually necessitates a trip.

Luckily, I have my anxiety in check now that it has a name, but, I've seen too many discarded people laying on hospitals floors with sheets over their faces.

My current girlfriend is a third year in med school, I've begged her to ask the other med students to be especially kind to the patients during their psych rotations.

cmp··on Penny-Arcade TV on chronic anxiety and antidepressants
Sunshine is not the best disinfectant.

Last summer I had my first panic attack.

Saying that, I wonder how many people who say "I had a panic attack" have ever experienced a full on, face on the floor, depersonalizing / derealizing panic attack.

It felt like I was losing my mind.

$250,000 in debt, followed by the disillusion of an 8 year relationship, loss of a job, and a move across the country in a three month period. Chase that with years of outright poverty (earning less than $10,000 [net] over the course of two years.)

7 days of Xanax and the wounds inflicted by three years of prolonged anxiety began to heal.

I probably would have killed myself if it weren't for the seven tiny pills that let me keep coding.

My company launches in about two months.

[not my real account]