Three years ago Jason was speaking at the vintage computer festival in Atlanta. He gave a talk about emscipten and all the cool things they do with it. I talked with him for a bit. Super cool and knowledgeable guy. I wish him well.
The Other Half
11–20 of 333 posts
Re: The Other Half
#12* Regardless, I personally would have been fine on the accomplishment/legacy scale, if not on the first-person/relationships/plans scale.*
Jason, I think it's an understatement to say that you've done incredible things on the accomplishments/legacy/contributing-to-society front. Thanks for your incredible work.
I hope the next however-many-years allow you to do all you wish to on the person/relationships/plans front. Godspeed!
Re: The Other Half
#13How is it THAT IN 2017 someone is still designing business critical systems with single points of failure?! Seriously though I wish him a full recovery and we all need to remind ourselves that all too often we lose track of what's really, life stoppingly, important.
Backward compatibility :)
I wish him a fast and full recovery, too.
Re: The Other Half
#14I sat on a "weird pain" in my chest for a few days. Basically it was uncomfortable to sleep on my left side, and I felt a bit short of breath. Turns out I was suffering from a double pulmonary embolism , and that the only reason I wasn't doubled over in pain is because by an odd fluke of nature, the interior of the lungs do not have nerve endings (only the exterior) and had I waited any longer I could have died. At t…
Or even if you're not experiencing any pain -- if you haven't been to the doctor in a long time... go to the doctor. Get a routine checkup! It can save your life.
I almost learned this the hard way a few years ago. I was in my late 30s, and handled going to the doctor the way I always had since reaching adulthood -- which is to say, I didn't bother with it unless I was feeling out of sorts. Routine doctor visits seemed like a waste of time. Why sit an hour in an office to have somebody tell me I was doing OK, which I already knew?
Then my glasses broke, so I went to my local optician's to get a new pair. They did a routine eye exam to make sure my prescription hadn't changed, and in the process noticed something odd about the little blood vessels in my eyes. That led them to take my blood pressure, which turned out to be high. Like, really high. The kind of high where the person giving you the test looks you in the eye afterwards and asks you, entirely seriously, how you are still alive.
I was a stroke victim waiting to happen. (See http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Conditions/HighBloodPressure/W...) And I had no idea. And would have continued to have no idea, right up to the moment when my circulatory system strangled my brain to death, if my glasses hadn't broken.
I went to the doctor, they gave me some pills to handle the immediate crisis, we changed my exercise routine and diet a little to bring my blood pressure down for the long term, and now I'm fine. But I don't skip out on routine doctor visits anymore! And neither should you.
Re: The Other Half
#15How is it THAT IN 2017 someone is still designing business critical systems with single points of failure?! Seriously though I wish him a full recovery and we all need to remind ourselves that all too often we lose track of what's really, life stoppingly, important.
Fair's fair: the system flagged up an error condition, and faced with a quarter of the critical system failed degraded performance but kept going until it could be patched.
Re: The Other Half
#16Quick readability fix: open DevTools and paste:
document.body.style.fontSize = '14pt';
document.body.style.fontFamily = 'Georgia,Cambria,Times,Times New Roman,serif'Re: The Other Half
#17"I’d now had been experiencing a heart attack for about a week." Holy cow. I didn't realize this was possible. This is a good lesson to all of us not to ignore weird, painful phenomena in our body.
Reduced function is a lot more common than heart attacks. Coronary artery disease and such. A heart attack is when it gets bad enough that the heart is damaged.
Re: The Other Half
#18Quick readability fix: open DevTools and paste: document.body.style.fontSize = '14pt'; document.body.style.fontFamily = 'Georgia,Cambria,Times,Times New Roman,serif'
Or click your browser's “reader” button.
Re: The Other Half
#19This is why it is important that you monitor your stress level and eventually just say "stop." Yes you may miss due dates, plans, and even make some people angry, but at least you don't die. I realize this is not always possible, but the "can do (everything)" attitude is not always the right one.
Also, having a surgery while being awake? Not sure how to think about that. I mean just imagining that makes me feel weird.
Re: The Other Half
#20A tablet of aspirin taken (even chewed if it's too bad) by the first symptoms of the chest pain can save your life.