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I no longer need Netflix.

Seriously. I just watched 3 fascinating videos I would have otherwise never given the time of day.

Clickable link: https://www.youtube.com/@ComputerChroniclesYT

Yes. I intermittent fast every day from 2pm until noon the following day. I allow myself a 2 hour eating window (22:2) per day. This 2 hours involved me eating a decent amount of a mostly raw vegan diet. I do still cook sweet potatoes, rice and broccoli. I also eat beans and some nuts. I drink 32oz lemon water and 32oz of celery juice each AM.

I fast for 2-3 weeks quarterly. Water only.

When I am sick for any reason I start fasting immediately.

What has this done for me? My weight is finally where it should be from decades of abuse. Autoimmune conditions and diabetes are under control.

I posted a while back that my sleep was about 2-4 hours nightly. Over the last 5 or so months that has increased to 6 hours a night.

Edit: I drink at least 1 gallon of water per day.

Thanks! Watching him over the years made me start writing my own tools for a lot of things instead of just accepting what functionality an app provide and how they choose to provide it.

Dear Terry,

I didn’t know you...but I respected you. You had mad coding chops and a sense of humor one can appreciate when they view your YouTube videos. Reviewing the code of TempleOS made me a better programmer.

Long live Holy C and 640x480...

RIP and thank you.

A virtual friend.

I have about 500 physical books right now ranging from learning Chinese to advanced c++ to quantitative finance to Seeet Chi.

My wife hates it. I buy books because I want to. I hope to read them. Someday I will, I know this. I read a lot already but the implementing what I have read and practicing takes time away from reading new subject matter. Example learning Chinese..it’s been 3 years and I still practice daily. Quant stuff.. I’ve been implementing and refining my code but this all takes time away from th piles of books I have accumulated.

Here are the books on my desk:

C++:

"The C++ Programming Language", Stroustrup

"Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++", Stroustrup

Quant:

"Quantitative Trading", Dr. Ernest Chan

"Algorithmic Trading", Dr. Ernest Chan

"Machine Trading: Deploying Computer Algorithms to Conquer the Markets", Dr. Ernest Chan

"Advances in Financial Machine Learning", Marcos Lopez de Prado

"Options, Futures and Other Derivatives (10th edition)", John C. Hull

Buddhism:

"Open Heart, Clear Mind", Thubten Chodron

"Buddhism For Beginners", Thubten Chodron

"Working with Anger", Thubten Chodron

Reading For Pleasure:

"Naked Statistics", Charles Wheelan

"Algorithms to Live By", Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths

"Dark Pools"

"The Quants", Scott Patterson

"The Physics Of Wall Street", James Owen Weatherall

Plus some Chinese books, I wont bore with the details, unless anyone wants to know. Fun Fact, while I was in China for 8 weeks in late 2017 I bought 60 Chinese books and stuffed them in a suitcase. It cost me $4,000RMB (~$604 USD) to check all of my stuff and purchases home :-)

The Math books are:

"Discrete math", Susan Epp

"Discrete with Ducks"

various Calc books. If you want to learn math, find books that work for you. We all learn differently here.

My opinion: The Chan books are just amazing. Thought provoking and motivational. I am still reading the Prado book.

My opinion 2: If you ever want to slow down in life and learn what you are about, read about Buddhism. I'm not trying to start a flame war. It just works for me. It isn't being told what to believe because that is the way it is. I feel Buddhism lets me explore myself to find the right answers that work for me. Since studying my anger levels are in check. I am a better Husband. My wife comes first always.

I have the Ernest Chan books.

"Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives (10th Edition)"

and a few other Economics and Finance books. Happy to share a complete list if anyone really wants it.

A few Stroustrup books.

A few Chinese language books (to help communicate with co-workers)

A few Algorithmic Trading related books as well as a few math books.

And, laugh if you wish, a few Buddhism books to help remind myself patience, no negative energy, etc. If I am feeling frustrated I can read a few quick thoughts.

Can you share insight on how intensive of a task this is?

Let me ask, seriously: if we take the Great Firewall of China, it does all sorts of packet inspection. Why can't this be applied to personal firewalls and inspect the traffic leaving (or coming in) for malicious content being masked as allowed traffic, etc?

There was a company called Packeteer that did traffic shaping/inspection....could any concepts be applied to firewalling as they were to traffic prioritization?

I worked for a furniture company that used Access for everything and I mean everything. HR, Payroll, inventory, ordering, dispatching, security, etc. One amusing use was having to make an entry that you took a soda from the break room. Totally on the honor system. You filled out an Access Form that payroll then billed you for (provided they remembered to actually do it).

My job was to get them y2k compliant and then start modernizing them.

Here is how the modernizing went. I was told to upgrade them from Access 2.0 to Access 2000.

Everyday users sucked down data from Oracle to run queries and processes that I developed. Users had access to everything, so a user could modify one of my queries. When it broke, I had to remember what the original query was. I did this by always housing a copy of the Access database on my local machine.

Every Tuesday Payroll was run at 5pm. Guess what? Every Tuesday I was there until 11pm as something always went wrong in the process. There were these misc pieces of compiled code other developers had written that nobody know what it did or had source for. Example: one developer wrote a piece of code in QBasic, compiled it and made it part of the process to strip out white space from data that was read in via a text file. He lost the source. When there were problems with this step he denied it was his code. Every database used this piece of code and everything broke.

I digress. I loved Access for what I could do with it. It served a purpose. It wasn't the best but it is what I had to work with to put food on the table. Now-a-days, using tools like MySQL Workbench and TOAD give me some of the same sense of creating views and queries to re-use but obviously these are not replacements for everything Access allowed you to do.

I do, sort of. I bought a text editor a number of years ago that was very popular. I still maintain it and use it daily and have often thought about putting out a new version. I have it running on many OS's and devices now. I have also added a lot of features specific to what I wanted. I'm not really sure if they are useful to others or not.

Example: I have an iPad version where I can use an Apple Pencil and handwrite my code on the screen. To me it is very useful when my wife is driving me someplace and I still want to work. Recline in the passenger seat and code.

I have a few notebooks full of ideas. Detailed ideas.

I usually take a look and decide what would be the most interesting for me to work on at the time. I figure if I am interested, I'll stay motivated and therefore have a better chance of completion.

I used to do web contract work for a company that was eventually bought by Ticketmaster. I left before the sale. I was actually "let go" because I didn't comply with design goals.

One of the things that was encouraged in the design was to "hide away" things that detracted the user from checking out quickly. This included:

* Smaller font for things that you would gloss over or not even read, when you really needed to read it.

* A "time ticker" when one really was not needed. Create the illusion that those seats would be gone if they didn't checkout as fast as possible. In reality users were seldom in any danger of losing the seats.

* Put in the users face the event they were checking out for. Keep them reminded that they want to go to this event. Show them stuff about it and then show the cost and fee's in smaller font and break it up into steps so they see a smaller total first, keeps them happy, then add fees on but keep that "time ticker" going so they don't look to much.

Working there, I felt almost like we were a sleazy porn site.

Edits: clarifications

Edit 2: added that I didn't work for Ticketmaster.

He doesn't have to be confrontational at all.

An e-mail in a softer tone, stating the facts and that it hurts would be enough. He should mention HR in there too.

I never learned to type properly either. We had a keyboarding class in high school and I just didn't take it when it was really pushed as "needed for a career".

Now I am 38 and I code and I can keep up with anyone else just fine. I often think that I have adapted my typing based around the fact that I do code. I position my hands in what seems good for code. I seldom move my hands and I can hit every key in some manner.

My wife is a "proper typer". She can literally write a Word document blindfolded and make very few mistakes. She even realizes if she does and can backspace, etc without even looking.

I owned an ISP in upstate NY for a few years. Basically hosting websites for clients. I bought a used APC NetShelter cabinet and put 2 large UPS's in the bottom along with and Air conditioner cooling fan in the top. I have a Sun Fire V 1 u server that was running apache. I have a few Sun Blade 100 Workstations handling mail and a few more handing DNS, NTP, etc. All I remember spending at least 25K on all of this.

One interesting thing that I remember was trying to build a drive array back then. Trying to figure out how many IDE drives I could stuff into a 4U case to use as what we call NAS now a days.....

I did this from my house and had to upgrade to 200amp electrical service and have dedicated circuits run to my house. In order to do this the phone company had to dig up part of the road and it took them a week.. Not convenient for all that traffic down my street.

I dont know if he can help not using it. I dont even know if he knows he's doing it and that it is wrong. Seriously. He has Schizophrenia. It might control him more often than he would like.

He didn't view it that way but thankfully his boss did.

I once revoked my bosses e-mail and VPN access because his password was 'password123'. It was my job to keep things safe after all and I had asked him nicely a few times.

EDIT: I proposed a new password of: @$tevezA$$ignedPwD@# (Steve's Assigned Password)

He said no to that one.

at 33 now, this is by far the fondest memory I have of my dad. I looked forward to it every month. I would sit there, fall asleep there, I was brought dinner at the C64. We had a cassette player so I could save my work. I still remember when I started planning out my own programs. My dad bought me a box of dot-matrix printer paper and I went to town planning out my "apps"

Now with my own 12 year old son, He is writing iPhone apps and plotting his timeline to becoming CEO of Apple.