What I Do for a Living

by olivercameron • 13 years ago

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dysoco2• 13 years ago

I don't really understand this article... anyone care to explain? Maybe I need some background information.

danso• 13 years ago

The author is an under-25 tech writer who founded MacStories.net. He was recently diagnosed with cancer, a cancer which he believes he did not act quickly enough to get treated. As a doctor makes small talk with him about what he does for a living, he reflects on his life choices to be come a tech writer and about the importance of doing what you love and making a difference.

dysoco2• 13 years ago

Ah I see, I couldn't understand the relation between his situation and his job.

run4yourlives• 13 years ago

I fricken hate that stupid "kudos" button that auto upvotes. Talk about bad design.

Cogito• 13 years ago

I missed it the first time, so I went back to see what you were referring to.

Now I want my Kudos back.

When you hover over the Kudos button it says "Don't move" for 1 second, and then up-votes the article. There is no way to get the vote back (that I can see) and it takes about a second to read what on earth the thing you just mouseover'd is saying, which means your vote is cast before you know it.

For reference, the following code is the implementation I see :)

    function s(t) {
        t.addClass("active"),
        t.children(".counter").children("span.txt").html("Don&rsquo;t move"),
        t.children(".counter").children("span.num").hide(),
        e = setTimeout(function() {
          clearTimeout(e), u(t)
        }, 1e3)
    }

[edit] added some linebreaks to the code

jval• 13 years ago

Awesome article and props to him for sharing that, must be hard to pour out something that is really hard for him and for all of us to admit, which is that even though we know not to put our work ahead of our health, we do.

If this can serve as a wake up call for people to stop putting off the burning necessities of health and family then it probably has more value than 99.9% of the stuff circulating on the internet.

_Lemon_• 13 years ago

This left me thinking "what are the signs of cancer"? Here are a couple of links after a quick search:

* http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancerbasics/signs-and-symptoms... * http://www.macmillan.org.uk/Cancerinformation/Aboutcancer/Si...

What I Do for a Living

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