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 Post subject: Happy new year!
PostPosted: Thu Dec 31, 2015 4:55 am 
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Happy new year!


2015 was probably the worst year for me, while 2013 and '14 being the best. I didn't learn anything significant. I didn't work on my projects much. I made a really horrible mistake. I suffered from constant depression. I hope, 2016 would be better.

On the other hand, I got to improve my grammar a little bit, read a useful book, get good grades in school, etc.


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 Post subject: Re: Happy new year!
PostPosted: Thu Dec 31, 2015 5:08 am 
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2015... well...
  • I went blind
  • I got back into programming, and especially osdev, after a complete burnout mid-2014
  • I got a new computer :-)
  • I started going to college :mad:
  • I found a way to communicate with my mother that avoids excessive anxiety
Better than 2014, I guess.

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 Post subject: Re: Happy new year!
PostPosted: Thu Dec 31, 2015 10:40 am 
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Happy New Year! :D
I've achieved quite a lot in 2015...
  • learned a lot about x86 and working on a 32-bit OS (ExDOS)
  • still learning about x86_64 and working on a 64-bit OS (ExDOS64)
  • learned a lot of social skills on my own
  • learned how to manage my money, and I now spend without wasting
  • improved my grades in maths, science and social studies
Much better than 2013 and 2014. Hopefully, 2016 will be even better for all of us!

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 Post subject: Re: Happy new year!
PostPosted: Thu Dec 31, 2015 11:11 am 
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  • Managed to get to the Moscow Programmer School at Yandex (a Russian software company).
  • Collected a bunch of stickers for my laptop.
  • Ordered a Raspberry Pi and an Adafruit's USB-TTL cable.

Happy New Year!

I was going to be the first to make a New Year post :twisted:

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 Post subject: Re: Happy new year!
PostPosted: Thu Dec 31, 2015 2:24 pm 
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omarrx024 wrote:
  • learned a lot of social skills on my own
Would I be mistaken to assume that you, like me, have Asperger's/Autism? My successes with social skills this year have been rather limited (although better than previous years, nevertheless - probably about the one good thing about going to college).
Roman wrote:
  • Collected a bunch of stickers for my laptop.
What kind of stickers?
Roman wrote:
I was going to be the first to make a New Year post :twisted:
I am officially immune to small font sizes :-D .

Something to add to my own list:
  • I realised that I have tastes in music besides what my mother listens to

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 Post subject: Re: Happy new year!
PostPosted: Thu Dec 31, 2015 3:40 pm 
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To me, 2015 was a good year:
  • I finished high school after a quite long track
  • I finished 7th place in the Dutch national computer science olympiad and 10th in the Dutch biology olympiad
  • I started college at Leiden University ( Physics + Astronomy (double BSc) )
  • I moved out from my parents
  • I saw some great bands
  • Nothing terrible happened :)

Happy new year my fellow OSdevvers! ( Even though in my timezone it is only 10.40 PM at the time of posting )

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 Post subject: Re: Happy new year!
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onlyonemac wrote:
What kind of stickers?
Sorry, I'm not sure I understand your question. Should I post a picture or you would be more comfortable with a description (sorry, I'm not sure about your blindness degree)?

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 Post subject: Re: Happy new year!
PostPosted: Thu Dec 31, 2015 9:15 pm 
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onlyonemac wrote:
am officially immune to small font sizes :-D .

You could always increase browser's font size and/or use a speech synthesizer.


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 Post subject: Re: Happy new year!
PostPosted: Fri Jan 01, 2016 4:58 am 
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Roman wrote:
onlyonemac wrote:
What kind of stickers?
Sorry, I'm not sure I understand your question. Should I post a picture or you would be more comfortable with a description (sorry, I'm not sure about your blindness degree)?
A description, please. Like are they software/hardware/Linux stickers, or just random stuff? By "collect" do you mean that you bought them or just acquired them like from friends, magazines, etc.?
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onlyonemac wrote:
am officially immune to small font sizes :-D .

You could always increase browser's font size and/or use a speech synthesizer.
I think you misunderstood me: what I'm saying is that using a small font size will not hide anything from me because I use a screenreader (speech synthesiser). But I know that it was a small font size from when I was editing the quote to extract the other bit, and I "saw" (heard) the size tags.

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When you start writing an OS you do the minimum possible to get the x86 processor in a usable state, then you try to get as far away from it as possible.

Syntax checkup:
Wrong: OS's, IRQ's, zero'ing
Right: OSes, IRQs, zeroing


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 Post subject: Re: Happy new year!
PostPosted: Fri Jan 01, 2016 5:47 am 
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onlyonemac wrote:
Roman wrote:
onlyonemac wrote:
What kind of stickers?
Sorry, I'm not sure I understand your question. Should I post a picture or you would be more comfortable with a description (sorry, I'm not sure about your blindness degree)?
A description, please. Like are they software/hardware/Linux stickers, or just random stuff? By "collect" do you mean that you bought them or just acquired them like from friends, magazines, etc.?
Muazzam wrote:
onlyonemac wrote:
am officially immune to small font sizes :-D .

You could always increase browser's font size and/or use a speech synthesizer.
I think you misunderstood me: what I'm saying is that using a small font size will not hide anything from me because I use a screenreader (speech synthesiser). But I know that it was a small font size from when I was editing the quote to extract the other bit, and I "saw" (heard) the size tags.

My bad. I thought you were saying that you couldn't see small font.


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 Post subject: Re: Happy new year!
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Muazzam wrote:
My bad. I thought you were saying that you couldn't see small font.
No offence taken. :-)

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Syntax checkup:
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 Post subject: Re: Happy new year!
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onlyonemac wrote:
Would I be mistaken to assume that you, like me, have Asperger's/Autism?

No. I've always been very social.

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 Post subject: Re: Happy new year!
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omarrx024 wrote:
onlyonemac wrote:
Would I be mistaken to assume that you, like me, have Asperger's/Autism?

No. I've always been very social.
Do neurotypicals learn social skills too?

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 Post subject: Re: Happy new year!
PostPosted: Sat Jan 02, 2016 5:50 am 
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2015... uhmmm

  • Released the second version of my hobby OS... was a fun experience really
  • Did some cool side projects
  • Started working on my graduation project
  • Went for an internship and learned some cool stuff

I was waiting for 2016 because I will graduate in July.. Finally :mrgreen:


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