> I do wonder if some of his genius came from his ability to shut down some of the other noise in his life. Lee Holloway Recommended Market Profiles (9) Site Perf/Opt (Lumascape) 5,000 - 10,000 employees. wasn't working, Lee napped constantly. We spend lots of money on medical research but tiny amounts on researching brain illnesses. At the same time, I think I'm a better programmer than I ever was. I do wonder if some of his genius came from his ability to shut down some of the other noise in his life. That sounds like something to worry about the appropriate amount. Exactly, unless one sees the suffering of others as suffering of NPCs or punishment for a former life, I cannot understand how one can believe in a benevolent omnipotent god. It was incredibly sad to watch. I agree with you that this won't always be the case, and at some point, brain dead is pretty much brain dead like in the case of survivors of gunshot wounds to the head for example. And legion are those that selfishly deceive in the name of religion or even try to create their own religions. Everything was controlled by a single Postgres database that made very heavy use of stored procedures, that called other procedures, that called others. Lees memory, if anything, seemed to improve and hed bring up little details from when we first worked together Id long since forgotten. As an example, for ages the only way to do a reliable (pseudo atomic) upsert call on most databases was through a stored procedure. We chose 'Project Holloway' to honor Lees contribution. Not a clear (or rapid anyway) change in personality, but certain aspects of it seem to somehow become amplified. Also, it does not actually cost insurance companies much money as they can all just raise premiums. That great idea? I had a T1 laminectomy to correct this. That's the answer to "Would you spend your last 10 years securing a guaranteed multi-million dollar payout?" Eventually, many FTD patients end up as apathetic as Lee, the light of their personhood dimmed to a pale flicker. This hit especially close to home because my grandmother has been suffering from degenerative mental disease for the last few years. Click. A very similar deterioration process appears to happen with other disorders like Alzheimer's and the form of dementia discussed in this article, though the root cause still isn't understood. I honestly think I was better at reading difficult material when I was a teenager. Also to all the young people freaking out about the inability to concentrate: Relax! There's got to be something motivating you to sit down, and do the work. I dont think Lee ever toiled. Thank you for sharing his story. Both? From God's (or "a god's", for our dedicated atheists) POV, there is some enclosing context to the events of our lives that makes this mess we call reality "make sense". According to the S-1, trusts affiliated with him own 18% of the companys Series A shares (or common shares) and 3.2% of the companys total outstanding shares. I have similar problems. He's also extremely restless, and wants to run the washing machine and dishwasher and go for groceries many times a day. You don't know what they're going through. I utterly lack the motivation, energy, and focus, to pursue prolonged difficult tasks (like good programming takes). Now to defeat a type of dementia that has upended his life, his family is giving millions of dollars to help . I think the last two had similar impacts, and I still have a hard time finding proper words from time to time. It was a Sunday, but the office was packed with people writing up the pending announcement or delivering coffee and food. An old family friend was a brilliant engineer. And recently I also discovered that it's not programming itself that has become harder for me. Project HoneyPot's technology unlocked the core value to CloudFlare, which he cofounded. Holloway was its chief software architect; Prince continues to serve as chairman. one emacs buffer has stored procedure code, send functions over via keyboard shortcut to SQL repl buffer connected to DB to evaluate it 'live' (jupyter notebooks are basically a copy of this mode of operation in a more consumer-friendly package), 2) w/r/t python in db, as OP mentions pgsql, pgsql has support for in-db extensibility using a variety of languages, of which python is one: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/plpython.html probably referring to this. Lee loved his family and was intrigued with genealogy and his family's heritage. I could die much more easily knowing my family were safe after I'd gone. After reading this I had to do a quick self-assessment. Not to say my software engineer ex has the same condition, but maybe he has a touch of it. It is extremely difficult to keep her mind at ease at all. Will we likely just need to wait until targeted in vivo genetic engineering is understood and mastered? If this story moves you, and you have the means, consider donating to CSF Leak research at Stanford. Who's failures caused dementia? Incredible article, and really makes me appreciate how lucky I am to have my cognitive faculties. If I was given such a diagnosis while still lucid, I think I would want to try every experimental treatment available, if any exist. It's possible to add more epicycles to try and correct for these deficiencies, but the truth is that sprocs are dangerously double-edged. Some users have also used it for open data projects(OpenAPI is provided). Click back at the home page, and start the slot machine again. Over and over. When you know about such events it seems to me to be either a lame escape or maliciously ignorant to claim there might be a god who sees the big plan and is still omnipotent. Its hard to imagine losing the ability to imagine. How do you correlate those errors at the application level? I mean, they had a brain tumor which could've been causing damage itself, plus radiation to the brain, invasive brain surgery, altered brain blood flow during the surgery, general anesthetic That's serious stuff affecting the most complex machine we're aware of. I'm sure when you have a brilliant engineer like this you can make it work though. But not always. He's actually the pioneer of research IIRC. Watching a family member fade and the glimpses of them here and there can be horrific. After a few days in the hospital and tons and tons of tests for infections, MRIs, lumbar punctures, etc, they decided that I had idiopathic hypertrophic pachymeningitis. I'll be sure to keep chasing the hard problems in my own day-to-day code, and keep a thought for Lee while I do it. Memory, after all, is how most of us register our continued existence. By the time we all figured it out, it was a couple of years in. If you have zero external support system and. All parties to the argument find agreement on this point. What seemed to go away was his ability to process those memories into something more. Lee Holloway, 83 of Cumming, GA passed away August 1, 2022. Their cat sometimes curled up and napped on his chest. Do you have any parallel-write setups with eventual consistency? Often what looks like an ugly wart was a very compact representation of domain knowlege for a special use case. I had a CSF leak repaired by Dr. Schievink at Cedars-Sinai. Recovery back to baseline absolutely may be possible for them, but there's really no way to know that for sure when dealing with something so serious and without knowing many other factors. Again, thanks for sharing. I always hear this back from people, but it's a failure in understanding what's being said. The advantage of stored procedures there was that the organization's release process was so broken that it was much faster for sales and marketing to get features added by going through Carl, the DBA, instead of submitting the request to the dev team. Certainly wasn't our ancestors fault. cloudflare IPO Lee Holloway Digital pensions platform Penfold raises $8.5M Series A led by Bridford Group Mike Butcher 1:00 AM PDT August 13, 2022 Penfold, a digital pensions platform, has. One story that didn't make it the article: This Wired piece was amazing: full of sadness, humanity, and hope. This is one of the saddest thing I read today and a good reminder that life is always finite. Things got from bad to worse in the Holloway home. Maybe you write things to files somewhere to be consumed by some federated monitoring system. Lee Holloway is our third co-founder and the genius who architected our platform and recruited and led our early technical team. The most active insiders traders include Forest Baskett, Scott D Sandell, and Patrick J Kerins . I definitely do not have the ability to focus on coding (and mathematics) the way I did 20 years ago. In an effort (prayer) to help fix it, I am selling my iPhone 11 Pro for a SE. Being on the receiving end of at least one (possibly two with CSF) medical diagnosis in which there's less quality researchers/surgeons in the Western World than can be counted on one hand, you grow to have very strange ideals as to what's truly important in life. My wife mentioned seeing a therapist because she thought maybe I was depressed so I scheduled an appointment but it's been rescheduled due to the virus. He suggested that a host of mental phenomenamemories, intentions, beliefs, and so onforge chains that bind us to our past selves. When he returned, he seemed dramatically different. There is no religion without the person actively trying to be a better person to every single person around them. The ability to make strong abstract connections transforming into misassociations? It always seems to me that faithful people just don't confront themselves with the suffering that is happening and has happened. It is great: your code runs right near the data its working with. He could operate in deep-thought mode all the time - he is extremely intelligent and extremely focused. We should be able to identify and fix conditions like this. Is it just burnout? 2013). versioning for breaking changes, adding optional parameters or new result fields for non-breaking changes. He was deliberate in "minimizing toil". 2017-2023 Tribute Archive. It reminded me of the one line in General Magic where Marc Porat tells the documentary producer that the reason he agreed to make himself very available and open for the film was so that his (presumably somewhat estranged) children can get to know him and the story and the work they did, better. Thank you. I mean the people who got torched had their freewill removed without warning, death by direct action of God. I don't mind it much; I feel it's just a quirk I have to be aware of. (Also, most of my experience is from an MS SQL and C# background, so some of this may not translate over to PostgreSQL quite so well). Prince meanwhile owns 20.2% of the companys class B shares and 16.6% of all outstanding shares, and Zatlyn has 6.8% of the companys class B shares and 5.6% of the overall shares outstanding. Such a talent may be completely disconnected from normal intelligence. I think it definitely could be any combination of those things. The data is there. The programming abstractions I design are better for years of work with different systems. Also review your diet and any substances you consume. Do you already have read-replicas? More importantly, on a daily basis, the technical decisions Lee made, and the engineering team he built, are fundamental to the business we have become.". 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