Programming? Forget it. I'll just keep wandering.

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In the summer of 2013, a man named Patrick McConlogue gave Leo two choices: one was to give him $100 so that he could continue to live a homeless life; the other was to give him a chance to learn how to program and get out of poverty.

Leo was a homeless man living on the streets of New York City, and McConlongo encountered him almost every day on his way to and from work. McConlongo said he could teach Leo a skill that would help him "recharge" and find a job, which might help him end his homelessness. Leo chose to accept the opportunity.

Many tech journalists mocked McConlong's move, but he kept his promise and taught Leo how to program. In December 2013, McConlong and Leo worked together to develop an environmentally friendly ride-sharing app. The two even became a dream team, and their story was widely reported in the media.

But months after Leo developed the app on his own, BI, a mainstream American online media, found that he was still wandering. Leo seemed unwilling to accept the money that could be easily obtained, which was kept in McConlong's account, and the amount was very large.

On May 27, 2014, McConlong said in an interview: Leo has a year to decide what to do with the money, either put it in a bank or find an agent to hold it. If he doesn't want to do that, he can also choose a homeless shelter and we will donate all the money.

As the date approaches, Mashable, a well-known American technology blog, tracks McConlong and Leo’s current situation. They found that Leo is still wandering a year after launching his Trees for Cars app. Mashable reports:

Leo still lives in the alley where he met McConlong. Although he rents a storage warehouse, he still keeps all his possessions on a shopping cart in a pile of sandbags near Chelsea Piers in New York. He no longer programs every day, and Trees for Cars disappeared from the application site because he can't afford to continue paying for the service. Leo occasionally works as a welder or walks in the park to pass the time.

When Mashable and McConlong interviewed Leo, he said that he was planning to go back to programming, but life must go on and he could not fit into the programming space. When the reporter asked the reason, Leo sighed and said: "It's all forced by life. Life must go on. You have to do this, you have to do that." McConlong said: "Wandering is not a characteristic or condition of someone, nor is it a way to describe someone."

But Leo said: "That's how life is on the Internet: you can be popular one minute and completely forgotten the next.