Yandex CTO and co-founder has died • Hacker News Board

Re: Yandex CTO and co-founder has died

#11

Post by xenator » Thu, Jul 25, 2013, 8:27 AM UTC

Cancer killed another great IT person. Very sad news.

Re: Yandex CTO and co-founder has died

#12

Post by f902370 » Thu, Jul 25, 2013, 8:40 AM UTC

What's wrong with 2013?

Re: Yandex CTO and co-founder has died

#13

Post by forlorn » Thu, Jul 25, 2013, 8:42 AM UTC

Sad irony. Today I got an invitation to Yandex.Islands and at once recalled his presentation (video: http://events.yandex.ru/events/yac/m/talks/816/ ). In an hour I read the news...

Re: Yandex CTO and co-founder has died

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Post by numair » Thu, Jul 25, 2013, 8:44 AM UTC

Truly sad; what a brilliant guy. And a real class act... None of the money-throwing antics[1] of some of his peers. Just a brilliant, modest dude.

Quite fittingly, the Yandex translation is superior to the Google translate version:

http://translate.yandex.net/tr-url/en+ru.en/clubs.ya.ru/comp...

1: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57442907-71/russias-zucker...

Re: Yandex CTO and co-founder has died

#15

Post by jschuur » Thu, Jul 25, 2013, 8:46 AM UTC

f902370 wrote: post #12

What's wrong with 2013?

Without death, would we be as motivated to live life?

Re: Yandex CTO and co-founder has died

#16

Post by rorrr2 » Thu, Jul 25, 2013, 9:00 AM UTC

Stomach cancer, unexpected exacerbation.

Fuck cancer.

Re: Yandex CTO and co-founder has died

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Post by nine_k » Thu, Jul 25, 2013, 9:05 AM UTC

Very sad news :(

Besides being a great CTO, he kept helping orphaned children [1] and taught juggling (right at Yandex office).

[1] These children: http://mariaschildren.ru/content/view/141/96/

Re: Yandex CTO and co-founder has died

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Post by brilee » Thu, Jul 25, 2013, 9:07 AM UTC

jschuur wrote: post #15

f902370 wrote: post #12

What's wrong with 2013?

Without death, would we be as motivated to live life?

In a land of immortality, would you willingly give yourself an 80-year death contract in order to motivate yourself to live your life?

Re: Yandex CTO and co-founder has died

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Post by microb » Thu, Jul 25, 2013, 9:11 AM UTC

jschuur wrote: post #15

f902370 wrote: post #12

What's wrong with 2013?

Without death, would we be as motivated to live life?

Please. Give Einstein, John Von Neumann or Francis Crick another 50 years on this planet and tell me the world would be worse off because of it.

Re: Yandex CTO and co-founder has died

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Post by ekianjo » Thu, Jul 25, 2013, 9:12 AM UTC

rorrr2 wrote: post #16

Stomach cancer, unexpected exacerbation. Fuck cancer.

Stomach cancer is extremely deadly. That's one of the worst ones to get... It's quite rare to get it very young, though.