PieterH

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   by PieterH 10y ago

   In my case, my lungs are filling up with something that is slowly choking me. I take oxygen and have bad coughing spells, and that's it. No pain yet. When the cancer grows into my stomach it'll be worse. I've no timetable s
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   by PieterH 10y ago

   Hey, high five to fellow Belgian Pieter! :) Yes, I was with my dad a month or so ago, same thing. One small injection to make him sleep, then after 5 minutes, one to stop his heart. It was instant, like switching off a light.
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   by PieterH 10y ago

   Honestly, when I was told I had cancer five+ years ago, it was just the same. I understood the diagnosis rapidly, cooperated fully, and when they told me I would be operated (on my birthday, 2010), I realized I might live, and prepared myse
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   by PieterH 10y ago

   If you read my book The Psychopath Code you'll see my discussion on "grounding", which is a simple (yet hard) technique for keeping yourself free of destructive emotions. That book, BTW was absolutely panned on Reddit since
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   by PieterH 10y ago

   I'm determined to show people that death does not need to be a sad or depressing thing. Loss is, of course. I know my kids are going to suffer. I know they're going to be angry, confused, maybe even self-destructive at times, when
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   by PieterH 10y ago

   Thanks for the links. I'll also try to contribute to this thread where I can.
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   by PieterH 10y ago

   I've had chemo twice now, the first time I got this cancer and now a different mix (folfox). The negative effects are painful yet really minor compared to the potential of getting rid of your tumor or cancer. The first chemo (gemcytabi
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   by PieterH 10y ago

   You're right, and I was wrong. Thanks for the correction.
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   by PieterH 10y ago

   Thank you for your email, and I realize what you meant now. Sequencing my DNA to protect my children from the risk that my cancer has a genetic basis... very thoughtful. Yes, I'd do this if I could find a researcher willing to help, an
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    by PieterH 10y ago

    This is not accurate. Euthanasia in Belgium (as in all countries where it's a legal act) has nothing to do with suicide and everything to do with removing pain and criminality from what is a fairly widespread act. * Doctors who wish to
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    by PieterH 10y ago

    Well, the original product survived until it was really more work than I could deal with. This was before the days of github. In 2009 I wrote a new HTTP core using the tools we'd developed for OpenAMQ, and called it X5. It's in th
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    by PieterH 10y ago

    protobufs generates code for one model. GSL lets you build infinite generators for infinite models. Its like comparing an apple with a fruit farm.
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    by PieterH 10y ago

    You write your own backends. These can be trivial to very comolex. See zproto or zproject for examples.
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    by PieterH 10y ago

    Look, this can be hard to grasp. In zproject we write models of our library APIs. From these we get stuff as exotic as bindings in Java, python, Ruby, node, and all scripts to build them.
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    by PieterH 10y ago

    The ZeroMQ core library does not use gsl. We use it in two projects, zproto and zproject, which are nice examples of what is possible without going too meta. I started explaining zproject in my [Scalable C]( http://Scalablec.org )
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    by PieterH 10y ago

    Love you too, Jan.
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    by PieterH 10y ago

    Honestly, I didn't write the protocol for my friends and family, who almost all know exactly how to behave. A few percent, maybe, have no clue. But then people reflect Bob's style and I'm a pretty chill guy. I just thought it
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    by PieterH 10y ago

    Hahaha... oh wait, you're serious? I think, and hope my kids will slowly forget about me except as deep and positive experiences, and it would be narcissistic in the extreme to ask them to carry my DNA around like ashes, just in case.
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    by PieterH 10y ago

    It's not sincere anger. It's trolls who are trying to find ways to annoy and provoke people. There is no point in arguing with them logically, they'll just continue in a different direction.
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    by PieterH 10y ago

    That is not correct. I was given five extra years by diligent medical work, expert surgeons and great after care. That didn't come from nowhere.
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    by PieterH 10y ago

    I'm... fortunate in that respect.
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    by PieterH 10y ago

    :-) Thanks.
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    by PieterH 10y ago

    Forgive me for this, but it's my life and my death, and of all the bullshit I've had to tolerate in my life, the insane preachings of long dead desert shamans are the worst. Take it somewhere else, thank you.
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    by PieterH 10y ago

    I get a decent chunk of the sale price in fact, as I'm my own publisher. Some people like paper books, some like ebooks, some like PDFs.
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    by PieterH 10y ago

    Good thing you read the book and came back with a solid criticism instead of launching a superficial attack on my lack of credentials. Nice work.
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    by PieterH 10y ago

    It's easy to love a person who will never turn up on your doorstep with a dog and a bottle of whiskey and ask to sleep on your couch for a week. :) I think euthanasia rights are worth fighting for. People will argue that it's a &q
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    by PieterH 10y ago

    Thanks for catching that. I was figuring the dates out on my calendar and slipped down a row. It was the 18th.
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    by PieterH 10y ago

    Funny, that is how I feel about 95% of the thousands of programmers I've talked with over the last years. :)
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    by PieterH 10y ago

    Thanks for letting me know how it affects you. :)
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    by PieterH 10y ago

    Thanks for taking that journey. I've never had such joy in coding as since we started using C4.1 in our projects.