It's a sad day. His many contributions to the open source and the gaming communities will live on, like his work on VBjin-OVR, a Virtual Boy Emulator.
http://code.google.com/p/vbjin-ovr/source/browse/oculus/Comm...
Oculus Rift co-founder killed by gang trying to escape police
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I usually don't feel anything when I hear of a innocent person dying on the news, but maybe because he's involved in tech, I too am very angry. Why does the police have to chase anyway? Why can't they just identify the car and silently follow it until it stops. Damn it.
Most cops are really dumb.
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#23Just terrible :( Why does it always seem like the worst and most insignificant wastes of human beings always take away great ones?
Because worthwhile people generally don't go around killing others.
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#24This is extremely sad, but it made me think of an important topic: contingency planning.
Pretty much every organization I've worked for was missing a "key developer got hit by bus" plan for at least one major project.
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#25I just wanted to say two things here. One, this is an incredibly damaging tragedy. I truly wish the best for the community, for the Reisse and Oculus VR family.
Secondly, my father has been an officer of the law for more than 25 years -- can we please not turn a thread which is being used to inform the community at large of a tragedy as a way to defame those who wish to do good in their community.
I ask out of respect of Reisse, and my good natured father that we keep at the very least this thread on topic.
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#26This is extremely sad, but it made me think of an important topic: contingency planning. Pretty much every organization I've worked for was missing a "key developer got hit by bus" plan for at least one major project.
Have you ever tried to talk to management about getting one of these plans together? They get mad at you for bringing it up and hexing the whole project!
My experience is you instead treat it like a computer backup problem and you add the contingency that top managers will know how to step in if information goes missing.
Also manage this with standards.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
I usually don't feel anything when I hear of a innocent person dying on the news, but maybe because he's involved in tech, I too am very angry. Why does the police have to chase anyway? Why can't they just identify the car and silently follow it until it stops. Damn it.
This article isn't available in full online (well, without paying), but it's all about why in the LA area there are so many police chases: http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/01/23/060123fa_fact_fr... I haven't read it since it came out in 2006, but suffice it to say that the Los Angeles area has vastly more police chases per capita than the rest of the United States, and therefore if something like this was going…
> That doesn't answer why the police chase, because obviously it's done far less elsewhere, though it does happen.
I'd suggest trying to correlate average vehicular speed with frequency of car chases. My guess is that certain cities are built for high-speed car transit and thus lend themselves towards this kind of thing.
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#28Terribly sad news, at least he got to experience the VR dream in his lifetime and see that Oculus is destined for the history books.
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#29I was about to lament how reckless the police were to be in a high-speed pursuit, but it's hard to fault them when this began with a fatal shooting of an officer at the beginning of the encounter.
Just a really sad turn of events.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
I usually don't feel anything when I hear of a innocent person dying on the news, but maybe because he's involved in tech, I too am very angry. Why does the police have to chase anyway? Why can't they just identify the car and silently follow it until it stops. Damn it.
Most cops are really dumb.
Really? I suppose you have some research to back that up or are you just being dumb?