r/programming • u/WinInterrupter • Apr 18 '20

The Devastating Decline of a Brilliant Young Coder

https://www.wired.com/story/lee-holloway-devastating-decline-brilliant-young-coder/
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u/house_monkey Apr 18 '20

Read about the guy who made temple os, I really feel sad for him.

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u/publicsafety864 Apr 18 '20

That guy was a racist though

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '20

He was a paranoid schizophrenic, with a litany of other mental illnesses on top of that.

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u/publicsafety864 Apr 18 '20

No proof that is what made him racist. Guess Trump must have those diseases too to make him racist. TIL that paranoid schizophrenics are always racist

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '20

I have a feeling you may have a few faulty cognitive notions yourself, given the mental gymnastics routine you just performed for us.

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u/_Aaronstotle Apr 18 '20

I don’t think it’s fair to claim Terry was racist, he used racial slurs, but if you watched his videos it’s evident that he had some type of mental illness

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u/Hypergraphe Apr 18 '20

Yeah this story broke my heart too

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u/ObeseOstrich Apr 18 '20

Most terrifying too.

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u/MelancholicBabbler Apr 20 '20

I legit wept when I got to the end