Lee's rudeness perplexed his old friends. He had built his life around Cloudflare, once vowing to not cut his hair until the startup's web traffic surpassed that of Yahoo. He had always been easygoing, happy to mentor his colleagues or hang out over lunch. At a birthday party for Zatlyn, he enchanted some children, regaling them with stories about the joys of coding. The idea of Lee picking fights simply didn't compute.
At home with his parents in San Jose, Lee, 38, was restless. He paced the rooms and hallways of the 1,550-square-foot house, a loop he'd been tracing since he'd moved in with them two years earlier. He didn't speak. His parents had the TV on, and they called him over whenever Prince or Zatlyn appeared onscreen.
Lee and his friends would cart their computers to each other's houses to play games together. He became curious about the machines themselves and started learning computer science, first in high school, then at a local community college and UC Santa Cruz, where an unlikely set of circumstances connected him with Matthew Prince.
Everything you ever wanted to know about Equifax, Mariott, and the problem with social security numbers.Lee and Prince kept working at Unspam from their respective cities, but as Prince was wrapping up business school, Lee called to tell him he was considering other job offers. Prince countered with a new and rather audacious pitch: He and a classmate, Michelle Zatlyn, had hit on a startup idea they thought had potential.
Prince started his pitch. “I'm Matthew Prince, this is Michelle Zatlyn, Lee Holloway is in the back of the room. We're the three cofounders of Cloudflare,” he boomed, stabbing the air with his finger as he spoke. In fact, Lee was backstage furiously fixing a long list of bugs. Prince held his breath when he ran the software, and, perhaps miraculously, it worked. It really worked. In the hour after he walked onstage, Cloudflare got 1,000 new customers, doubling in size.
But around 2011 she started noticing that Lee was growing distant and forming some odd new habits. He spent a lot more time asleep, for one. After long workdays, she recalls, he'd walk in the door, take off his shoes, and immediately pass out on the floor. Their cat sometimes curled up and napped on his chest. His son, not yet 2, would clamber over him, trying and failing to rouse him to play.
Good coders ALWAYS have work... Your confusing code monkeys that finished a 'bootcamp' with people who actually know how to program.
An absolutely heart-breaking story. But very well written.
shoqëri por megjithatë nuk ka problem , por as për ndihmë kjo është absurditet , Kreynisca Arquette e ka emrin në facebook, po jua them kot për kuriozitet se ka plera që ekzistojnë nëpër Botë që nuk duan t'ja dinë fare fare , dhe për te unë që jam njeri i mir .
I dhashë shoqëri një vajze në facebook dhe e ftova,që ta linim ndonjë ditë për të drekuar,por nuk më dërgoi fare përgjigje,nuk e besoj mos ta ketë parë.E marr me mend që nuk më ka simpatizuar për shoqëri apo dhe më shumë se
Depressing af. At least he'll be getting the care he needs
Great article this, thank you for sharing.
It resonant to our current phase of mindset.
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Science Strong, stirring