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Re: Yandex CTO and co-founder has died

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Post by rorrr2 »

mjolk wrote: post #27
raverbashing wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The absurd amount of alcoholic beverages also help I'm not in any way against the moderate consumption of alcohol but the russians are in another level, really Just to be clear: I'm not implying this is the case

And Russians also eat a lot of salty food. Just to be clear: I'm not implying that smoking, drinking, or eating salty food was the cause of his stomach cancer, I'm just generalizing based on stereotypes that I know.

Smoking definitely is one of the causes (around 20% in the UK).

As is (sadly) eating smoked foods.

Re: Yandex CTO and co-founder has died

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Post by kombine »

numair wrote: post #14

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...

I wouldn't be so sure it's superior:

Google: "But he left behind a whole new generation of programmers, an entire school. And it sets the level of ethical standards for all of us." vs Yandex: "But he left behind a whole new generation of programmers, a whole school. And its ethical standards specified the level of all of us."

Google: "Tonight, he was gone." vs Yandex "Tonight he was not."

And RIP Ilya. Many people who knew him said he was a very good person. He didn't spoke in public often, did his work, supported charity and also had an active political stance. What a loss.

Re: Yandex CTO and co-founder has died

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Post by jentulman »

mjolk wrote: post #28
dakrisht wrote: post #25

RIP to a young and brilliant man. Go out there and live the day, hug your loved ones, enjoy the sun, work hard, don't think about taking over the world and being the next Steve Jobs, stay humble, you're given one life - go out there and make life proud that you are a part of it. Memento mori

While platitudes generally go over well on hacker news, I'm curious how one can "make life proud that you are a part of it." Should one also try to "make time notice that you exist" or "make gravity work for it?"

I intend to give all these a go by buying a self winding watch and hopping to work everyday and remembering to take a moment to wish everyone I pass a good day and good health.

Re: Yandex CTO and co-founder has died

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Post by jacquesm »

microb wrote: post #19
jschuur wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Didn't Crick advocate Eugenics?

Re: Yandex CTO and co-founder has died

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Post by znowi »

VladRussian2 wrote: post #22
ekianjo wrote: post #20

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

While i don't know about this guy specifically, Russia has high rate of smoking. Coincidentally, several prominent Russian people i've checked out about recently happened to had died from stomach cancer relatively young.

Apparently, Russia is the 4th most smoking country in the world, behind Serbia, Bulgaria, and Greece [1].

"According to a survey reported in 2010 by Russia’s Health and Social Development Ministry, 43.9 million adults in Russia are smokers. Among Russians aged 19 to 44 years, 7 in 10 men smoke and 4 in 10 women smoke." [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_cigarette_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Russia#Smoking

Re: Yandex CTO and co-founder has died

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Post by egor83 »

microb wrote: post #19
jschuur wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

...Stalin, Franco, Pinochet?

Re: Yandex CTO and co-founder has died

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Post by danabramov »

UPD: Ilya is in coma with no brain activity, but not dead yet. (http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&pre...)

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Ilya was very vocal about his contempt for falsifications in Russian elections. He went to protests and helped develop an app for election observers. This app helped volunteers submit proofs of violations during the elections.

http://webnabludatel.org

He adopted several children and hated the recent law forbidding child adoption by USA citizens.

He will be missed by many.

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Edit 1: Rephrased the first sentence per suggestion in reply

Edit 2: Added recent info about coma

Re: Yandex CTO and co-founder has died

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Post by nikster »

microb wrote: post #19
jschuur wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Maybe none of these guys would have done what they've done.

Maybe they'd never even have been born, their parents being to lazy.

Maybe we'd never have evolved from being pretty comfortable monkeys sitting around - why would we have evolved to breed, to love sex, and to make babies at all? Babies are just competition to an immortal being.

Bottom line is, none of us would be around to mourn the passing of an apparently very nice person. RIP Ilya.

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