Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69 • Hacker News Board

Personal aside: When driving, my partner and I always refer to a certain town west of London as Alan Richmansworth, I think simply because it is nice to think about him. Sad news.

Re: Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69

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Post by tomp » Thu, Jan 14, 2016, 2:14 PM UTC

pmtarantino wrote: post #40

I am very sad for this (I am a huge Harry Potter fan), but I can not let pass a curiosity of which this event is part of. Aaron Ramsey (Footballer player for Arsenal, UK) has a reputation for apparently killing off famous people when he scores. Whenever he scores someone famous tends to pass away, of course it is a big coincidence, but he did score yesterday too. Also scored last week, and David Bowie passed away. If…

Doesn't a "famous person" die almost every day?

Re: Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69

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Post by paulpauper » Thu, Jan 14, 2016, 2:14 PM UTC

ekianjo wrote: post #38

paulpauper wrote: post #36

between david bowie and this, cancer seems to be the midlife killer of choice . Much process has been made in heart disease, but cancer? Not so much. Once it's spread, you're dead. (2 years usually)

> Once it's spread, you're dead. (2 years usually) OK, this is completely wrong. There are several cancers which do not kill THAT fast in the first place, and several that can be cured with pretty good confidence. And it's often a matter of how soon you detect it - if you find it at Stage I, you have much better odds than if you find it at Stage IV. Please stop generalizations like this.

those are just the stats. Metastatic cancer is almost always fatal with an average survival of 2 years. That shows why more progress need to be made.

Re: Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69

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Post by epimenov » Thu, Jan 14, 2016, 2:15 PM UTC

pmtarantino wrote: post #40

I am very sad for this (I am a huge Harry Potter fan), but I can not let pass a curiosity of which this event is part of. Aaron Ramsey (Footballer player for Arsenal, UK) has a reputation for apparently killing off famous people when he scores. Whenever he scores someone famous tends to pass away, of course it is a big coincidence, but he did score yesterday too. Also scored last week, and David Bowie passed away. If…

http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

Re: Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69

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Post by herbig » Thu, Jan 14, 2016, 2:15 PM UTC

pmtarantino wrote: post #40

I am very sad for this (I am a huge Harry Potter fan), but I can not let pass a curiosity of which this event is part of. Aaron Ramsey (Footballer player for Arsenal, UK) has a reputation for apparently killing off famous people when he scores. Whenever he scores someone famous tends to pass away, of course it is a big coincidence, but he did score yesterday too. Also scored last week, and David Bowie passed away. If…

It's ridiculous that this is the top comment.

Re: Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69

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Post by maxerickson » Thu, Jan 14, 2016, 2:16 PM UTC

paulpauper wrote: post #46

ekianjo wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Once it's spread, you're dead. (2 years usually) OK, this is completely wrong. There are several cancers which do not kill THAT fast in the first place, and several that can be cured with pretty good confidence. And it's often a matter of how soon you detect it - if you find it at Stage I, you have much better odds than if you find it at Stage IV. Please stop generalizations like this.

those are just the stats. Metastatic cancer is almost always fatal with an average survival of 2 years. That shows why more progress need to be made.

The GP's point is that you should specifically say metastatic cancer if you want to cite that statistic, not generalize it to cancer.

Re: Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69

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Post by rootbear » Thu, Jan 14, 2016, 2:17 PM UTC

lionize wrote: post #22

Sad news, however how is this related to Hackery?

Well, it's a stretch, but when I saw Die Hard I just barely caught the BSD reference when they log into the CEO's terminal. I found a screen shot on flickr:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/armenws/9516176127/

That's a pretty hackerish reference for a film made in 1988 that wasn't particularly about computers or tech. There was probably a BSD fan at the company that created the computer screens. FreeBSD 9.2 had a tribute to this in it's boot screen:

https://mebsd.com/make-build-your-freebsd-word/freebsd-9-2-d...