My prayers go out to the family and his colleagues. I was just watching the Kickstarter video about Oculus yesterday.
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.
There has got to be a better way. Here in AZ they have limited this due to accidents and death of innocent bystanders. Maybe there is a way to pin the car and catch them more silently, with all the tech we have maybe the cops can get some sort of GPS/trackable weapon. Of course they have to be close enough or have it already installed. Either that or a better notification system where vehicles may be so people in that area are on the lookout and the road clears almost like the O.J. chase.
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#63This is really sad and a great loss to the community over in Santa Monica. With this sort of thing happening so infrequently in tech, it makes events like these all the more of a loss, for our entire industry.
Condolences to the family and Oculus team.
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#64I 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.
Doesn't seem to me like the police were the ones who hit Reisse: > Investigators allege 21-year-old Victor Sanchez and two > other suspects then took off in a Dodge Charger. With > Sanchez at the wheel, the Charger slammed into two > vehicles during the pursuit before hitting Reisse, police > said. (from the article.)
The argument is that the police should never be involved in a high-speed chase because it threatens the safety of the general public and often ends in tragedy like this.
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#65This 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.
I don't know that there is any need to be so dramatic. "Key developer gets a new job" is pretty much the exact same contingency plan.
Not really. "Key developer gets a new job" means they are still available for you to ask questions to, get help locating passwords/keys from, and so forth. In the "key developer gets hit by bus" scenario, you don't have that luxury.
The idea isn't so much about being hit by a bus as "what would we do if a key contributor were to vanish off the face of the Earth with no notice or warning?" If the specific idea of the Death Bus seems too grim, feel free to replace it with another deus ex machina that would have the same effect (alien abduction, Christian rapture, surprise release of a new season of Firefly, etc.).
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#66Just terrible :( Why does it always seem like the worst and most insignificant wastes of human beings always take away great ones?
Just because he wrote some code that was used so widely doesn't make him more significant than a janitor who cleans after you, or the "gang" member who was evading the brutal cops for a chance for his freedom. The sooner we realize people are equal because they're human fucking beings the greater hope for humanity to avoid its imminent demise.
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#67Was it responsible for the police to chase them at this time?
two vehicles full of people involved in some type of criminal activity
Was this yet another incident where the police self-escalated the situation?
I sure hope there was a precise reason this happened and not that "they smelled pot".
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#68Just terrible :( Why does it always seem like the worst and most insignificant wastes of human beings always take away great ones?
Just because he wrote some code that was used so widely doesn't make him more significant than a janitor who cleans after you, or the "gang" member who was evading the brutal cops for a chance for his freedom. The sooner we realize people are equal because they're human fucking beings the greater hope for humanity to avoid its imminent demise.
Gang members are absolutely not equal humans, as they make their life by taking, not creating. Janitors do.
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#69This is really sad and a great loss to the community over in Santa Monica. With this sort of thing happening so infrequently in tech, it makes events like these all the more of a loss, for our entire industry. Condolences to the family and Oculus team.
This happening so infrequently in tech makes it less of a loss. There are communities terrorized by criminal- and police-related violence, that lose so much more. Events like this should be a wake up call to be aware that tragedies happen all the time outside our bubble. And what can we do to prevent them?
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#70It's so easy to focus on the bad in a situation like this but I wonder how many successful police pursuits that resulted in lives being saved. It reminds me of airbags, if they save 99% of lives but end up causing 1% of deaths then it is seen as a bad thing, but in reality it is really saving lives. It's just a terrible situation that's hard to understand, there is no black in white right answer.