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Gosh... This is not some random guy. He wrote the release announcement
https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-announce/2023-Nov...
Whoooooooosh
Colin is extremely well known on HN. Famously he was a center of a.... peculiar exchange where his skills were questioned, and he had the comeback of a lifetime: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
OP is the founder of Tarsnap, a Silver sponsor of the FreeBSD foundation for over a decade at this point. This means donations between $10,000 - $24,999 for the fiscal year.
GP might have been joking
Yes, I do.
Obligatory reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35083
What's the Putnam if I may ask? It sounds like an academic competition? Google didn't really enlighten me.
I know what it's like though, I won a big prize in school. Not saying it compares to yours but I stood out too. Didn't really help me become more popular though or boost my self confidence. But it was nice to give a middle finger to all the bullies for once.
Re:FreeBSD 14.0-Release Announcement
by boomboomsubban on Monday November 20, 2023 @10:27PM
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Ah ok a maths prize, cool! My prize was more general science. I'm very good at sciences but I have a mental blind spot for maths, I can understand really complex abstract problems but only if I can imagine them, explaining them with math makes it more confusing. It's weird :) In fact I was super surprised I won it because I screwed up the math part as expected.
Nice about the scholarship! I didn't get one but we don't really need them in the Netherlands. All universities cost a minimal standard fee only.