I wonder how he died?
Mo Koyfman, a VC, tweeted that it is likely a heart attack. https://twitter.com/mokoyfman/status/594549389340876801
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Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died
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Re: Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died
#162I wonder how he died?
Mo Koyfman, a VC, tweeted that it is likely a heart attack. https://twitter.com/mokoyfman/status/594549389340876801
Accurate cardiovascular assessment: https://apps.evaliahealth.com/v2/b6075076-eac5-43db-b898-875...
Re: Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died
#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
>"Dave defined the word 'mensch'" FWIW, mech4bg is probably referring to Yiddish for "human being" and not a reference to the terrible ex MP (UK) Louise Mensch.
In German it means human being, in Yiddish it's taken to be "a person of integrity and honor" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensch
True.
German Wikipedia article translated to English: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr... (see the Etymology section)
Re: Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died
#164No one gives a shit about the people that died yestarday http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/20150503_U_S_... but when this fat idiot dies, its a big deal and makes it to the top of HN. No shit, survey monkey is a billion dollar company. Dont worry I am expecting down votes from angry bigots.
Re: Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died
#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
When I started to see similar things happen to friends or acquaintances when I was about the same age every time I heard of someone getting sick or dying prematurely I would say to myself "time to buy that Porsche you always wanted". So I did. My parents generation worked hard but never spent any money always assuming they would live to a ripe old age.
You can do so much better than buying an expensive toy. Why bother working so hard to blow it on something silly?
What is not silly? Someone invented a way of enjoying things after you die? Or is there a template for being happy that we all must adhere? Let me guess: "spend quality time with the people you love", "travel the world and experience more", "achieve something that will remembered" and other typical b..it.
Re: Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died
#166That is why you should see a competent primary care physician/GP/family care practitioner regularly.
I'm confused. Did he have cancer brewing for a long time that had gone undetected?
I also wonder if there is a place on earth where doctors genuinely care about you outside of an emergency.
Re: Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died
#167"Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead, Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves, Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.
He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.
The stars are not wanted now: put out every one; Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun; Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood. For nothing now can ever come to any good."
W. H. Auden
Re: Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died
#168No one gives a shit about the people that died yestarday http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/20150503_U_S_... but when this fat idiot dies, its a big deal and makes it to the top of HN. No shit, survey monkey is a billion dollar company. Dont worry I am expecting down votes from angry bigots.
Whoah. Uncalled for dude. This is a tech site you have to remember, he's a CEO of a tech site/husband to SS/seems like he was a big figure in the community.
I'm sure every single one of us cares that people died yesterday. Don't want to get into a big debate, jus sayin. #deepbreaths
Re: Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died
#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
And how does testing for early stage cancer markers help you? It's not a rhetorical question, clinical studies have been unable to show the positive effect that you assume (and actually these tests may do more harm than good).
As per my previous post, a CEA blood test would have shown mine two orders of magnitude higher than normal. Further non invasive tests would have found my tumor, possibly before it metastasized. Or maybe not. But for the cost of my chemo, you could do 100 CT scans. (And I have to have one every two months.)
Your CEA levels were two orders of magnitude higher than normal at a point were it was sufficiently advanced to be diagnosed from symptoms (as it fortunately happened in your case). If you want to diagnose early, you need a much lower threshold and the CEA test is not good enough. It's not like people have not been trying to find screening protocols...
According to http://www.clinchem.org/content/47/4/624.full
> CEA as a Marker for Colorectal Cancer
> screening
> In screening for colorectal cancer, the aim should be to detect disease at either Dukes’ A or B stage. Malignancy detected at more advanced stages is unlikely to be more treatable than that detected through the usual course of events. Using an upper limit of normal of 2.5 μg/L, Fletcher (19) calculated that CEA has a sensitivity of 36% and a specificity of 87% in screening for Dukes’ A and B colorectal cancer. These findings, combined with the low prevalence of this malignancy in unselected populations, render the positive predictive value of CEA unacceptably low and thus of little value in screening healthy subjects. For the present, therefore, we must rely on fecal occult blood and endoscopy to screen for colorectal cancer (20).
What does 36% sensitivity and 87% specificity mean? Imagine that you test ten thousand 40-year olds and twenty-five of them do actually have colon cancer (this is more or less consistent with statistics telling that 0.23 of them will be diagnosed with colon cancer before turning 50). You will get a true positive result in 9 cases (out of 25) and a false positive in 1297 (out of 9975). So only 0.7% of the positive cases are real, and you missed two thirds of the cancers.
Re: Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died
#170Of course we dont know why he died but I echo the sentiment that you need to be getting annual physicals and blood work to catch potential issues sooner rather than later. A few years ago a nurse told me my blood pressure was a bit high but I didnt think it was that high to worry about so I never followed up on it. Then a few months ago I went for a dental check up where they checked my blood pressure and after a par…
My blood pressure hits 150/90 somewhat regularly (the local gym had an automated cuff which I use to measure it). When I was about 29 I was concerned enough to ask the specialist physician who I see for an unrelated chronic condition. He was concerned enough by my readings to order a 24 hour blood pressure study. He didn't start me on any drugs when the 24 hour study showed that my BP dropped overnight. Indeed, my medical aid (Heath insurance) also has a fairly high threshold for funding BP meds as a chronic condition. I still see the doctor regularly, and although my BP has not dropped below 140/90 on any occasion that he has seen me he considers it normal (I think he regards it as "white coat hypertension").
It seems that doctors in South Africs have a fairly high threshold for prescribing medications for blood pressure to younger people. The contrast with your case in the U.S., where the doctor started you on BP meds immediately is quite striking.