Sorry to hear that. Bushing was awesome. Many of my IRC friends in the Nintendo DS hacking scene knew him well.
Ben “bushing” Byer has passed away
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Re: Ben “bushing” Byer has passed away
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
It says natural causes, so I feel that's enough to remove fears of anything self inflicted. On another note, I'm saddened to hear about this. I was actually just thinking about him specifically and wondering what he was up to since I hadn't heard anything about his involvement in Fail0verflow lately.
This is fairly recent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A7V3GLWF6U
I agree, but I hadn't seen his name attached to the PS4 work, so I just kind of assumed he wasn't an active member of the team in the last little while.
Re: Ben “bushing” Byer has passed away
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
I didn't think someone so young could die of "natural causes", but apparently even dying from the flu or sudden heart failure qualifies as a natural cause: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_by_natural_causes Ooof. Terrifying.
DVT is also considered a natural cause, and if you sit all day, you're at a higher propensity to die from it: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/deepveinthrombosis.html
Developers really need to look after their health. Our sedentary lives are impacting our health:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11040932
Hopefully, we'll soon figure out ways to monitor and measure our health. Then dying from natural causes will never happen.
Re: Ben “bushing” Byer has passed away
#24RIP Ben, you will be missed by one and all.
Re: Ben “bushing” Byer has passed away
#25Wow. I've been following bushing's work for a while and this is very saddening to hear. If you haven't seen bushing & marcan's "Wii Fail" presentation, I recommend it. My thoughts are with his family and loved ones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z81BCko-UY
Wow! After seeing the video and that his real name is Ben Byer, I think I went to high school with him. He looks somewhat different, but the voice sounds right.