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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.

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
• I found a way to communicate with my mother that avoids excessive anxiety

Better than 2014, I guess.

Happy New Year!
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!

• 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

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

I am officially immune to small font sizes .

Something to add to my own list:

• I realised that I have tastes in music besides what my mother listens to

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 )

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)?

onlyonemac wrote: am officially immune to small font sizes .

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

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 .

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.

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 .

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.

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

No offence taken.

onlyonemac wrote:Would I be mistaken to assume that you, like me, have Asperger's/Autism?

No. I've always been very social.

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?

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