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Just make sure they regularly withdraw the funds, Paypal have a habit of freezing accounts. Perhaps a bitcoin address too?
Understood, thank you.
Thankyou, it's time we give you something back.
Pieter Hintjens (zeromq) diagnosed with incurable cancer
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Re: Pieter Hintjens (zeromq) diagnosed with incurable cancer
#62Maybe an odd, somewhat morbid question, but I dare to ask: what is to become of your digital legacy - your websites, trademarks, contributions, entitlements, books, twitter/facebook account, etc ... ? Have you given this any thought?
Re: Pieter Hintjens (zeromq) diagnosed with incurable cancer
#63Maybe an odd, somewhat morbid question, but I dare to ask: what is to become of your digital legacy - your websites, trademarks, contributions, entitlements, books, twitter/facebook account, etc ... ? Have you given this any thought?
I hope it's understood that I wish Pieter to stay with us for a very long time. Yet, this news made me reflect on my own digital legacy and wanted to hear what his thoughts were about this subject.
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.
I started to read your blog and ...discover you, in a way! All I've known before was ZeroMQ. I wish to have found your blog-posts earlier, maybe posted here on HN.
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I also started reading "The Psychopath Code". It got over my expectations, so far. It may be one of the books I'll recomend to my children when the time comes. Till then, I guess it'll just make me a beter psychopath. I haven't considered to be one myself, but (unfortunatelly for others) I partially fit the psychopath profile described by you. Interestingly, I found the detailing on emotion-evolution idea to be close to one of my convictions, which I've briefly mentioned in a comment a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11496916
Re: Pieter Hintjens (zeromq) diagnosed with incurable cancer
#65Maybe an odd, somewhat morbid question, but I dare to ask: what is to become of your digital legacy - your websites, trademarks, contributions, entitlements, books, twitter/facebook account, etc ... ? Have you given this any thought?
fund the main domains forward a few years, give admin control to trusted friends and then trust the community to do what they want.
Re: Pieter Hintjens (zeromq) diagnosed with incurable cancer
#66Pieter, I am so sorry to hear about this. Not sure if you need it, but I (and maybe others) would like to offer some money to help your family. It's not unheard of for people at your age to have debt, etc. Anyway to set this up? I cannot begin to say how much I love your work. Thank you!
Well this is really kind. Yes, I'm pretty broke and have three young children who will be semi orphans. Cue violins. Happy to receive on PayPal at ph@imatix.com. I will give my family the keys to that so they can put it aside for ma wee bairns... Thanks for suggesting this.
Also, it would be good if you could post the address and fact that you are broke with three children prominently on your blog. It's already buried here. I suspect there are droves of people who really want to help but don't know how. #justfkingdoit
Re: Pieter Hintjens (zeromq) diagnosed with incurable cancer
#67Thank you Pieter for your work! Also, I wanted to thank you for your great and inspiring talk at Euro SciPy 2015 in Cambridge!
Thanks, and don't forget all my talks are now on Amazon Prime at $9.95 each! Just kidding, they're on hintjens.com.
It'd be worth it if you weren't. You are truly one of the great reads/listens in this or any community.
Re: Pieter Hintjens (zeromq) diagnosed with incurable cancer
#68Man, sorry to hear about your troubles. Zmq was a refreshingly new idea in a sea of otherwise cookie cutter message passing frameworks. Take some quick selfie videos wishing your kids happy birthday, congratulations on graduation, wise wedding words of advice, and general parental guidance. You'll live on for decades through your children, and they'll love you more getting to see you at choice moments in their life. Peace be with you.
Re: Pieter Hintjens (zeromq) diagnosed with incurable cancer
#69Man, sorry to hear about your troubles. Zmq was a refreshingly new idea in a sea of otherwise cookie cutter message passing frameworks. Take some quick selfie videos wishing your kids happy birthday, congratulations on graduation, wise wedding words of advice, and general parental guidance. You'll live on for decades through your children, and they'll love you more getting to see you at choice moments in their life. Peace be with you.
Re: Pieter Hintjens (zeromq) diagnosed with incurable cancer
#70Lost for words on your diagnosis. I hope and pray, for you and your family, that you will squeeze as much out of the short time left.
I'm not lost for words on your contribution to open source, how we think about systems, and the great legacy of building blocks you've left for the rest of us to carry on building with. Your work and writing was like a sledge hammer to the way I thought about systems. After I was exposed to the ZMQ Guide and years of building systems with ZMQ, I saw the problems and their solutions in a very different way. Thank you for being that hammer - I owe you and am sad that I won't get the chance to say thank you/buy that beer in person.
I always think that as long as my children, and their children etc. live then there is a part of me that will never die. I think that if I ever produced anything that had near the impact of ZMQ, then I would include that in the list of things that told the world that I was here after I am gone.
The only question I have for you is, what made you realise that an open source approach was the way forward for your work?
All the best Pieter, and thanks for all that you will leave behind - especially the community.