Josef Desimone, Facebook's executive chef, has died
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Re: Josef Desimone, Facebook's executive chef, has died
#2I just think about projects I benefit from and team members I've worked with and how this can happen at any moment. How differently the world seems when you take just one person out of it. Suddenly, everyone around you becomes the most important person to ever exist.
My deepest condolences to the Desimone family and to everyone at Facebook.
Re: Josef Desimone, Facebook's executive chef, has died
#3Mark's grinning face right above this announcement bothers me for some reason: http://cl.ly/image/2k0p2v2A1U3t
Re: Josef Desimone, Facebook's executive chef, has died
#4According to http://articles.latimes.com/2008/apr/04/business/fi-chef4, Desimone worked for Google before Facebook. "As Google's first executive chef, Ayers hired Desimone in 2003 when Google was growing so fast that they cooked in the back of an 18-wheeler and served meals under tents."
Quite an amazing journey. RIP.
Re: Josef Desimone, Facebook's executive chef, has died
#5Mark's grinning face right above this announcement bothers me for some reason: http://cl.ly/image/2k0p2v2A1U3t
it might be a decent (though seldom used) feature for these communication mediums to have (FB, G+, etc) to be able to hotswap your icon for just one message when the message is grave.
many gmail users now have icons (gee thanks, G+), and I can imagine that this awkwardness happens frequently in death notice emails sent to family and friends. Swapping it with even a generic frown face icon might do.
Re: Josef Desimone, Facebook's executive chef, has died
#6One good thing about his passing, at least Josef Desimone doesn't have to worry about Zuckerberg helping the NSA spy on him anymore.
Re: Josef Desimone, Facebook's executive chef, has died
#7Perhaps I am just lacking some perspective here and someone could better inform me, and I don't mean to be "that guy" right now, but how does this really relate to the guideline of:
"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."
I can understand when someone like Douglas Engelbart dies and HN is filled with stories about him, but what exactly has this chef done that makes him noteworthy on HN?
Re: Josef Desimone, Facebook's executive chef, has died
#8Mark's grinning face right above this announcement bothers me for some reason: http://cl.ly/image/2k0p2v2A1U3t
it might be a decent (though seldom used) feature for these communication mediums to have (FB, G+, etc) to be able to hotswap your icon for just one message when the message is grave. many gmail users now have icons (gee thanks, G+), and I can imagine that this awkwardness happens frequently in death notice emails sent to family and friends. Swapping it with even a generic frown face icon might do.
The ability to have a "tone profile picture" -- where you can have several pics and then pick the tone of a post....
Re: Josef Desimone, Facebook's executive chef, has died
#9Mark's grinning face right above this announcement bothers me for some reason: http://cl.ly/image/2k0p2v2A1U3t
it might be a decent (though seldom used) feature for these communication mediums to have (FB, G+, etc) to be able to hotswap your icon for just one message when the message is grave. many gmail users now have icons (gee thanks, G+), and I can imagine that this awkwardness happens frequently in death notice emails sent to family and friends. Swapping it with even a generic frown face icon might do.
I recall when a colleague I had worked with passed away suddenly and we were not yet connected on linkedin, and linkedin was sending me reminders to connect with her for months after she passed.
I emailed support at linkedin and told them of the passing - never got a response - but the alerts eventually stopped... though I do not attribute their stopping to my email to them.
Re: Josef Desimone, Facebook's executive chef, has died
#10Perhaps I am just lacking some perspective here and someone could better inform me, and I don't mean to be "that guy" right now, but how does this really relate to the guideline of: "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." I can understan…
Perhaps he's fed (or knew), at one point, many of the folks here on HN.