"toxicology results would be done in two or three months" This seems like a long time, is it normal?
It's sadly pretty typical.
Grooveshark co-founder, 28, found dead in home
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#142Keep in mind that there are health conditions that can kill seemingly healthy young adults instantly - aneurisms, heart attacks, brain cancers, and others. I'm reminded of one of my dogs dying of hemangiosarcoma - a cancer of the blood vessel linings that thankfully only happens to dogs, not humans. In many cases, the way we find out a dog has hemangiosarcoma is that the dog suddenly just drops dead. (In Rubu's case,…
Yes. A girl in my high school died of a brain aneurysm right in PE class. Perfectly healthy, by all appearances, then... gone, like turning out a light. As I recall, they said that she'd likely had it since birth.
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#143"toxicology results will take two or three months." Did this bother anyone else?
Considering that's how about the time period we were told to wait for my brother-in-law's toxicology report, no.
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#144My step-sister dated Josh for a while when I was growing up. My few memories of him consist mostly of Josh explaining technology to me at the dinner table in slow, careful words so that a middle school kid could understand. I remember him laughing with me about the crazy/terrible things I had done to overclock my Android Dev Phone 1 at a time when no one else I knew thought that was interesting. I remember feeling re…
I didn't know Josh, but sent Grooveshark an email when I was starting to hack together something cool using their APIs. Quick response, many thanks for being interested and a free year of Grooveshark Premium. A clear culture of enthusiasm and love.
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#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
I hope this doesn't come off as too selfish, but I hope that I can do things/interact with people that leaves a meaningful bond long after the relationship has "ended" Maybe paying it forward is the best thing to do in his memory.
I think we don't even realise the impact we can have on people, deliberate or otherwise. Years ago, when I finished highschool, this guy came up to me and said "thanks for acting normal to me, it really helped me through the last four years". I kinda knew he got bullied, but I never really realized how much it bothered him or how my interaction with him affected him. He was just this guy, and on occasion I'd talk to…
I shall pass this way but once; any good that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being; let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
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#146I never knew him and scarcely used GrooveShark. But reading through these comments it is clear we've lost a wonderful guy. Very sad this happened to him. Rest in peace, Josh.
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#147R.I.P Josh :(
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
On several scuba and climbing sites I visit, there is a strict separation between mourning a death and speculating/analyzing the cause. It may be a little different here, but the experience with risky sports is that a thread examining the cause may include suggestions that the person was somewhat at fault. Many of the people mourning someones passing would prefer such discussions not be interleaved with celebrating t…
I wish that HN was more like Metafilter in its ability to section off condolences and well-wishes threads from speculation threads. Unfortunately, the method by which posts get to and stay on the front page ensure that HN will never be able to perform this sort of segmentation.
Well that leaves it in the hands of caring individuals, intelligent sentient beings, to refrain from speculation here.
No need to call for a tech-solution, when the solution is simply to be found in human decency and kindness.
Having gone through a quite similar loss myself recently, I view things maybe slightly different and would not have liked reading/hearing speculation about fathers death while mourning his loss and having to deal with the shock of his last farewell.
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#149I worked with Josh for over five years at Grooveshark. The day I applied for the job, he spent several hours pitching the company to me with rampant enthusiasm in hopes that I'd take a risk (and a huge pay cut) and come work with the team. From the day I took the job, I watched Josh tirelessly run through his pitch time and time again, always with the same attention to detail, and the same level of genuine interest i…
I'm sorry for the loss of your friend. Grooveshark was my absolute favourite website for close to a half a decade, I can't even count the hours I spent listening to it.
Absolutely. Spotify be damned. Grooveshark felt like Audiogalaxy done by professionals.
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#150Can anyone explained to me that why Grooveshark did not convert into the same model as of Pandora or Spotify?