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Pieter Hintjens (zeromq) diagnosed with incurable cancer

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Re: Pieter Hintjens (zeromq) diagnosed with incurable cancer

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Excellent question! (can you tell I'm bored in a hospital)? Well, it all started when I was about three, and I discovered ants. Fire ants, to be specific. Biting me all over cause I'd chosen to hide right on top of their nest. There's a lesson there.

I didn't know there were Fire Ants in Belgium :)

This was in Karen, Nairobi almost half a century ago.

Re: Pieter Hintjens (zeromq) diagnosed with incurable cancer

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I'm lucky enough to have done all that since my first round, five years ago. So now it's wrapping things up and saying goodbye.

Darn, but you seem to be quite a stoic. Anyway, I want to thank you for the Imatix webserver (blast of the past), Libero and the first few chapters of Scalable-C and all the other snippets of knowledge and wisdom which I'm happy to carry around on my head. Good stuff.

I'll try to continue work on scalable c. Seems like a useful thing.

Re: Pieter Hintjens (zeromq) diagnosed with incurable cancer

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I'm sorry to hear this, Pieter. I don't have a question, but would just like to wish you well - as much as possible under the circumstances.

Excellent question! (can you tell I'm bored in a hospital)? Well, it all started when I was about three, and I discovered ants. Fire ants, to be specific. Biting me all over cause I'd chosen to hide right on top of their nest. There's a lesson there.

Looking back, is there anything that stands out as something you should have done differently? Or not done? Or just done? (intended to be as open-ended as you care to interpret it)

Re: Pieter Hintjens (zeromq) diagnosed with incurable cancer

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Darn, but you seem to be quite a stoic. Anyway, I want to thank you for the Imatix webserver (blast of the past), Libero and the first few chapters of Scalable-C and all the other snippets of knowledge and wisdom which I'm happy to carry around on my head. Good stuff.

I'll try to continue work on scalable c. Seems like a useful thing.

It is, for me at least. But don't feel obliged :)

Re: Pieter Hintjens (zeromq) diagnosed with incurable cancer

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Damn. Damn, I'm sorry. Your work is excellent and you will be remembered for it, wish I could say the same. Now go have some fun.

Now you made me all weepy.

I'm fighting off a resistant infection that has decided to invade my lungs as well. My definition of fun is to get the doctor to turn up the oxygen one more notch. "5 litres per hour man? Are you crazy? Ye cannae handle it!"

Re: Pieter Hintjens (zeromq) diagnosed with incurable cancer

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Excellent question! (can you tell I'm bored in a hospital)? Well, it all started when I was about three, and I discovered ants. Fire ants, to be specific. Biting me all over cause I'd chosen to hide right on top of their nest. There's a lesson there.

Looking back, is there anything that stands out as something you should have done differently? Or not done? Or just done? (intended to be as open-ended as you care to interpret it)

Working on closed source and building up a business was an utter waste of time. I spent a lot of time with my kids the last years and should have done that before.

Other than that, and about a thousand fuck ups that seem inevitable on the road of life, I regret nothing, and admit nothing.

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