A great person and developer who will be dearly missed. He was too young, but sadly is a prime example for the risks factors of heart disease. With overweight like that over a long period of time, he most likely had blood pressure and cholesterol issues, along with not much physical exercise. Of course there are a ton of people in similar condition who get to be much older, but still, risk factors are risk factors.
So very sad to hear about the passing of Ruby legend Jim Weirich
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Re: So very sad to hear about the passing of Ruby legend Jim Weirich
#42Jim was an amazing guy, and I wish I had spent more time talking with him. There was a time several years ago when the Ruby community was very vibrant and energetic, and in all that energy, just a little hostile to newcomers. There was a lot of hype about the best new testing methods with RSpec and this new thing called Cucumber, 100% paired programming all the time, 100% TDD, and 110% test coverage, fat-model, skinn…
great story. Did you give that talk ? If so, how did it go ?
Re: So very sad to hear about the passing of Ruby legend Jim Weirich
#43Jim was an amazing guy, and I wish I had spent more time talking with him. There was a time several years ago when the Ruby community was very vibrant and energetic, and in all that energy, just a little hostile to newcomers. There was a lot of hype about the best new testing methods with RSpec and this new thing called Cucumber, 100% paired programming all the time, 100% TDD, and 110% test coverage, fat-model, skinn…
I think once you started programming in "Ruby", you've given up your right to talk about how to program in the right way. Just saying.
Re: So very sad to hear about the passing of Ruby legend Jim Weirich
#44Jim was an amazing guy, and I wish I had spent more time talking with him. There was a time several years ago when the Ruby community was very vibrant and energetic, and in all that energy, just a little hostile to newcomers. There was a lot of hype about the best new testing methods with RSpec and this new thing called Cucumber, 100% paired programming all the time, 100% TDD, and 110% test coverage, fat-model, skinn…
I think once you started programming in "Ruby", you've given up your right to talk about how to program in the right way. Just saying.
I've seen a lot of snide, dickhead comments on HN, but dropping one like that on a memorial thread for someone like Jim Weirich takes the cake.
Re: So very sad to hear about the passing of Ruby legend Jim Weirich
#45Jim was an amazing guy, and I wish I had spent more time talking with him. There was a time several years ago when the Ruby community was very vibrant and energetic, and in all that energy, just a little hostile to newcomers. There was a lot of hype about the best new testing methods with RSpec and this new thing called Cucumber, 100% paired programming all the time, 100% TDD, and 110% test coverage, fat-model, skinn…
I think once you started programming in "Ruby", you've given up your right to talk about how to program in the right way. Just saying.
Once you've started making comments like that in this sort of context, you've given up the right to be considered civilised.
Re: So very sad to hear about the passing of Ruby legend Jim Weirich
#46Jim was a great guy and an awesome contributor to the Ruby community. He will be missed indeed. RIP.
Re: So very sad to hear about the passing of Ruby legend Jim Weirich
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think once you started programming in "Ruby", you've given up your right to talk about how to program in the right way. Just saying.
I've seen a lot of snide, dickhead comments on HN, but dropping one like that on a memorial thread for someone like Jim Weirich takes the cake.
He's dead. Nothing I can say here will affect him in the slightest.
Re: So very sad to hear about the passing of Ruby legend Jim Weirich
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've seen a lot of snide, dickhead comments on HN, but dropping one like that on a memorial thread for someone like Jim Weirich takes the cake.
He's dead. Nothing I can say here will affect him in the slightest.
No, it won't affect him. But his family will be reading these later and it will affect them.
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#49Re: So very sad to hear about the passing of Ruby legend Jim Weirich
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, it won't affect him. But his family will be reading these later and it will affect them.
Yeah. Like the family of a programmer reads HN.
As a matter of fact they do. I'm very close with his family, and when I spoke with them yesterday they were looking forward to reading the many threads and posts about him on this and other websites. I can only hope they'll be strong enough to ignore the cruel remarks made by heartless people like you.