Mississippi Burning is one my favorite films https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Burning
Gene Hackman has died
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>“The doctor advised me that my heart wasn’t in the kind of shape that I should be putting it under any stress,” he added. >He maintained his love for acting and missed it but the business had become too stressful for him. Sounds like modern dev work.
This is a take you'd only hear on a site like Hacker News. Software development consistently ranks among the least stressful jobs you can get and it's really out of touch to compare this profession to genuinely stressful jobs. Looking over surveys of most stressful jobs, it looks like the common theme are those that deal directly with people like customer service, sales, nursing/health care, or working in physically…
> Software development is an incredibly stress-free job
laughs from a bootstrapped startup
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Very unlikely for two people to die like that at the same time without some common factor. Add a dog and the probability becomes even crazier. The evidence doesn't show any foul play but the probabilities and unlikelihoods do.
Keep in mind, he was 95 and was forced into retirement by health issues over 20 years ago. If your base rate is based on two healthy people in their prime, that's a little different. It could be as simple as he found her dead or dying, tried to get help and had a heart attack from the stress or simply just fell. Reports are they weren't found for two weeks, which sadly could explain the dog. Tragic situation all arou…
3 things dying in 2 weeks in the same house is just unlikely and the people must have died within minutes. This is still unlikely EVEN when you take into account age and health issues.
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#126Note to the Times writer if the obituary. you can't accidentally murder someone
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
>“The doctor advised me that my heart wasn’t in the kind of shape that I should be putting it under any stress,” he added. >He maintained his love for acting and missed it but the business had become too stressful for him. Sounds like modern dev work.
This is a take you'd only hear on a site like Hacker News. Software development consistently ranks among the least stressful jobs you can get and it's really out of touch to compare this profession to genuinely stressful jobs. Looking over surveys of most stressful jobs, it looks like the common theme are those that deal directly with people like customer service, sales, nursing/health care, or working in physically…
i strongly disagree as a SWE of 16y working silicon valley remotely
there are times it's great. there are times it's awful. and there are times i'm prepared to starve rather than continue working for ____
no one in my extended family went into this industry and none of them deals with the endless stress that i do
i envy those who can't relate
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#128Why do stories like this stay at the top of HN but anything “political” gets banned immediately?
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#129He was a great actor and seemed like such a great human as well. Never realized until today, reading his bio that he is a former marine. Semper Fi. Rest in peace Marine!
That background may have informed Hackman's portrayal of a military character in ''Bat*21'', a suspenseful film set during the Vietnam War based on the real escape of USAF Lt. Col. Iceal "Ham" Hambleton after being shot down.
I just looked into it and wow, that movie depicts him killing a farmer after failing to steal supplies from his family.
Kind of surprising. Might have to check that out.
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#130Why do stories like this stay at the top of HN but anything “political” gets banned immediately?
Because the comments aren’t as toxic