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I hope you get better soon. And thank you for all your contributions: your books, the talk on the one weird trick, the software.
by asimjalis 10y ago
I hope you get better soon. And thank you for all your contributions: your books, the talk on the one weird trick, the software.
- ZenoArrow 10y agoIf I remember right, his cancer is terminal, he doesn't expect to get better, he's just trying to live the time he has left with some dignity. I understand it's hard to face, even the author has struggled with it, but we all have to come to terms with death.
- dredmorbius 10y agoI can understand the sentiments. And I'm not Pieter. That said, at times the realisation is that you are going to die, that parts of it are going to be awful. And yet there is so much more in life you wish you could have accomplished. So you do what you can, with the time you have left. That doesn't just apply to Pieter. It applies to all of us. So, no, he's not going to get better. He's going to die, fairly soon. But he'll use some of the better parts of tech to do parts of what he'd hoped to do. And I wish him every comfort while that happens, and appreciate his insights. The Shanzai concept was new to me, but resonates deeply with ideas I've had myself, and is something I've wondered "well, why can't that happen?" It turns out it is happening.
- breakingcups 10y agoIf you want to read some more about Shanzai, Bunnie's blog is excellent. You can start here: http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=284 http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=284 http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=147 http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=147 is also interesting.
- dredmorbius 10y agoThanks. Queued up.