Wow... Very sad news. His twitter page shows him living in Eugene, Oregon, my hometown. I wonder what he was doing there.
He was getting in touch with his glass blowing roots. He had a studio that he opened down there last march or April.
Ezra Zygmuntowicz has died
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#72With my brief encounter of him, he was one of the nicest guys I've ever run across. He took everyone seriously despite the level of customer. He always helped like jx5 was saying. Damn.
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#73Ezra was a nice guy. Very approachable and even though he was probably smarter than most he talked to he never came across superior.
He is also the one who introduced me to nginx and I think he was instrumental in making nginx a western webserver that is now used all over the place.
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
His colleagues and family went to considerable lengths keeping it out of the spotlight - so we can assume he didn't want people to know. That means it's probably an illness with a significant stigma, likely something with a strong mental component. While personally I think it's a missed opportunity to raise awareness of a potentially fatal disease, and a missed chance for the people who admired him to make a final hu…
Was it diabetes? "I'm also not jumping back in too quickly as the stress had agravated my recently diagnosed type 2 adult onset diabetes which is what landed me in the hospital." -- Ezra Zygmuntowicz "@inetdavid type2 adult onset. too much hacking for 18 hours a day drinking red bull and eating fast food. lost 118lbs after diagnosed!" -- Ezra Zygmuntowicz https://groups.google.com/d/msg/trinitylabs-talk/f8XOageAwcY..…
No idea what happened to Ezra; sad to see him go. I am not in anyway speculating about what happened to Ezra.
That said, as a diabetic myself, I am answering this really only to your question, "How can type 2 diabetes kill a person after only 1 year of being diagnosed? What the hell?"
First - there is a very high correlation of age and aggression of disease progression within people with type 2 diabetes. What I am saying here is, on average, the younger you are when diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, the higher the likely hood of early/severe complications.
Second - uncontrolled high blood sugars can lead to diabetic ketoacidosis which can be fatal. This can come on very quickly. Additionally; if a diabetic goes into diabetic ketoacidosis and pulls through they become at a much greater risk of having this happen again in the future.
Third - Dead in Bed Syndrome - This is the sudden death of a diabetic in their sleep and accounts for the deaths of 6% of all type 1 diabetics under age 40. This one is highly tied to Type 1 diabetes, but can also occur in Type 2 diabetic that require insulin therapy.
I'm terribly sorry to see him go and not for the Ruby/Rails or programming community that so looked up to him, but for his family and his son to him he will always be irreplaceable.