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Grant Imahara Has Died

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Re: Grant Imahara Has Died

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Post by soared »

StavrosK wrote: post #171
citizenkeen wrote: post #170

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I also wonder how much of it is "nerd" adjacent. I came to software development late in my career (I was a lawyer and a health care administrator first). I work for a good company and I like a lot of my coworkers. I would never want to be friends with them. That's a barrier I'm not very comfortable crossing. When I worked in a hospital, when I was a lawyer, it was the same. Good coworkers, no desire to keep seeing th…

> Except engineers, developers, and data scientists. I'm not sure what it is. I assume you mean "they're not friends", rather than "they're all just friends"? That doesn't really echo my experience, I have many good friends from past jobs that I'm still in contact with. Though I've also definitely gotten frustrated with people we seemed to get along with at work but then didn't ever seem to want to hang out outside w…

So frustrating when you have a coworker who you get along with very well, will take walks/lunch/etc, but refuses to go to happy hour or do anything outside of work.

We’re all people, shouldn’t matter where we met. It’s not like we talk about work outside of work.

Re: Grant Imahara Has Died

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Post by chansiky »

ainiriand wrote: post #129
codecamper wrote: post #111

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So what can be done preventatively against a brain aneurysm? Seems like there is something called a Magnetic Resonance Angiography.

Having a controlled blood pressure really helps. Other than that... good luck I guess.

I guess that would also entail, surrounding yourself with people who don't embroil your blood pressure. That's something within some level of control.

Re: Grant Imahara Has Died

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Post by StavrosK »

soared wrote: post #181
StavrosK wrote: post #171

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> Except engineers, developers, and data scientists. I'm not sure what it is. I assume you mean "they're not friends", rather than "they're all just friends"? That doesn't really echo my experience, I have many good friends from past jobs that I'm still in contact with. Though I've also definitely gotten frustrated with people we seemed to get along with at work but then didn't ever seem to want to hang out outside w…

So frustrating when you have a coworker who you get along with very well, will take walks/lunch/etc, but refuses to go to happy hour or do anything outside of work. We’re all people, shouldn’t matter where we met. It’s not like we talk about work outside of work.

Yeah, and when I asked, the answer was "oh I don't hang out with coworkers outside work", which I can't understand.

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Post by squarefoot »

pradn wrote: post #162
rbanffy wrote: post #139

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It's a neurological condition. We go to college to get a diagnosis.

From someone who gets giddy about exciting algorithms, languages, performance numbers - I suppose we're kindred spirits, though across the pond of the hardware-software divide. Glad the world has all sorts of people in love with all sorts of things.

Do a search for "Jim Williams workbench", you won't be disappointed.

Re: Grant Imahara Has Died

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Post by chansiky »

d33lio wrote: post #10

Wow, this cuts really deep. This makes me want to take more risk in life, to live a bit fuller and care less about money. Even at 26 I still don't have a great way to digest loss like this. The loss of someone who I genuinely looked up to and whom had significant impact on decisions I made my life. Who I thought about when I really hated myself and felt that I didn't belong in engineering at college. Especially Grant…

Not a lot of genuine people in the entertainment business for sure. Its tragic that such a great thinker is lost, especially for our generation 50 feels so young, who knows what he could have done with more years.

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Post by atum47 »

My dad got us direct tv back in 2000. I watched a lot of MTV, Cartoon Network and Discovery Channel (where mithbusters was broadcasted for us, Brazil). I already had a taste for science and engineering, I use to love Beakman's World (when I was even younger). Is great to see how many people, like me, were inspired by people like Grant. He will be missed, for sure. You should see some of his videos in robot fight.

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Post by yellow_postit »

czbond wrote: post #179
petercooper wrote: post #160

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(I'm not really here to discuss the pros and cons, false positives and what not here as it's a complex topic, but..) I have a medical every three years that involves a full body MRI and ultrasounding which monitors for both brain and aortic aneurysms. There are people who have caught aneurysms in early stages through such monitoring, but there are enough downsides to such screening that it's not something that would…

Do you have an idea of some of the downsides? (Imagining cost - but also radiation?)

Not the poster but I imagine false positives as one specific cost to excessive monitoring unless there’s an underlying condition or history that necessitates it. One of the reasons in the US they raised the recommended age for mammograms.

Re: Grant Imahara Has Died

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Post by fnimick »

StavrosK wrote: post #183
soared wrote: post #181

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So frustrating when you have a coworker who you get along with very well, will take walks/lunch/etc, but refuses to go to happy hour or do anything outside of work. We’re all people, shouldn’t matter where we met. It’s not like we talk about work outside of work.

Yeah, and when I asked, the answer was "oh I don't hang out with coworkers outside work", which I can't understand.

I don't personally limit myself in this way, but I understand. Having personal friendships at work makes it more challenging to make hard business decisions such as switching companies when opportunities present themselves or firing / laying off team members. I've worked with people who are very friendly and pleasant to work with but explicitly avoid any personal relationships so they can use pure cost-benefit analysis in career and company decisions, rather than allowing emotion and sentiment to influence it.

Edit: actually, the most effective person I ever met who did this was someone who _did_ hang out outside work and etc to allow others to form personal bonds with him, but he avoided reciprocal investment in them. This let him take advantage of their empathy while not having any of his own to limit his decision-making. It was a bit sociopathic, but I saw firsthand how much it helped his career.

Re: Grant Imahara Has Died

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Post by jonny_eh »

dghughes wrote: post #177
GloriousKoji wrote: post #25

I normally don't care about celebrity deaths but this one really has me sad. I know a lot younger people were influenced by him but he had a positive influence on me even thought I was already well into my career as an engineer. He embodied a true engineering spirit, and watching him on TV would make me reflect and kindle the engineering spirit of my own. Even if my job wasn't as sexy, was in a sea of cubicles and th…

I saw him as an engineer before being a celebrity. I'm like you deaths of celebrities although sad tend to be of vapid people. But Grant was a scientist who inspired many. Just reading the comments here it's amazing the impact he had in such a short time.

I disagree. Celebrities are often highly gifted people, like Grant. But they’re usually entertainers, not technical.
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