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22-Year-Old Google Engineer Dies At His Work Terminal (nypost.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the dead-at-22 dept.

"A Google software engineer has been found dead inside the company's Chelsea headquarters," reports the New York Post: A janitor found 22-year-old Scott Krulcik unconscious at his work terminal on the sixth floor of the building on Eighth Avenue near West 16th Street around 9 p.m. on Friday, police sources said. EMS workers tried to perform CPR but to no avail. Krulcik was pronounced dead at the scene.
"Krulcik's Linkedin page says he began working at Google in August," reports long-time Slashdot reader McGruber, adding that "Police sources say that his body did not show any signs of trauma, nor did he have a history of medical conditions or substance abuse problems."

209 comments

  1. Probable Cause by SuperKendall · · Score: 5, Funny

    Kids, this is why you NEVER go back through source history to look at the first commits for any old project.

    Think end of Radiers Of the Lost Ark.

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    1. Re: Probable Cause by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Gross no thanks

    2. Re: Probable Cause by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Blah blah blah

    3. Re: Probable Cause by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Haha they must have looked at his missing todo items the following Monday and their hearts sank. His boss probably donâ(TM)t know how to code

    4. Re: Probable Cause by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's the stress. It happened to me twice last year and one this year already that I died at my work terminal due to stress.

    5. Re:Probable Cause by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'm not surprised this happened. The working conditions in the United States are hellish compared to civilised countries.

    6. Re: Probable Cause by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      RIDE A BIKE! Anyone still experiencing stress at the end of the day... will be fired!

    7. Re:Probable Cause by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Kids, this is why you NEVER go back through source history to look at the first commits for any old project.

      Think end of Radiers Of the Lost Ark.

      That's it make fun of a man's death, classy you ass-wipe, very classy.

    8. Re: Probable Cause by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Scott 6-8-5
      Krulcik 3-1-4
      ---------------------
      Total: 9-9-9

      The tragedies and losses total

    9. Re:Probable Cause by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "Radiers "???

    10. Re:Probable Cause by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      He wasn't a man, he was a kid. Men are 30 or over.

      Also, since we didn't know him, there is absolutely nothing wrong with having a laugh over this. If you were to mourn every death in the world, you would be in constant mourning from the day you were born until the day you die. It's like you have a child's worldview.

  2. so? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    So?

    1. Re:so? by diesalesmandie · · Score: 1

      There's 7.7 billion people on this planet and only ~1.8 billion seconds in a 90-year lifespan.
      Even if you tried to care about every single person, 1 second for 1 person, your life would run out by the time you hit 1.8 billion if you are lucky to hit 90.
      Kind of a pointless venture.
      That's why i find these groups who represent an entire gender or race moronic. You don't even have the basic math education to realize you don't have the lifespan to represent them all for 1 second each, yet you are pulling this shit? Get the fuck outta here.

      Agree, with your logic but i don't believe that's their angle, maybe it means that they are FIGURATIVELY representing an entire race or gender?

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    2. Re:so? by Mr+D+from+63 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Every once is a while, someone who appears to be perfectly healthy just suddenly dies. Film at 11.

      Is there some reason we would should be surprised that Google employees are not exempt from this possibility?

    3. Re:so? by ebacon · · Score: 3, Informative

      There's 7.7 billion people on this planet and only ~1.8 billion seconds in a 90-year lifespan.
      Even if you tried to care about every single person, 1 second for 1 person, your life would run out by the time you hit 1.8 billion if you are lucky to hit 90.
      Kind of a pointless venture.
      That's why i find these groups who represent an entire gender or race moronic. You don't even have the basic math education to realize you don't have the lifespan to represent them all for 1 second each, yet you are pulling this shit? Get the fuck outta here.

      Agree with your logic, but not your math:
      90 * 365.25 * 24 * 60 * 60 = 2,840,184.000
      so more like 2.8 billion seconds

    4. Re:so? by ebacon · · Score: 1

      where 2,840,184.000 should be 2,840,184,000 (oops)

    5. Re:so? by Kjella · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Every once is a while, someone who appears to be perfectly healthy just suddenly dies. Film at 11. Is there some reason we would should be surprised that Google employees are not exempt from this possibility?

      Well it's not really once in a while anymore, it's rare. From the mortality tables here in Norway the average 22 year old has a 0.0473% chance of dying that year. And of those it's about 1/3rd accidents/violence, 1/3rd suicide and 1/3rd medical conditions. From there I'd have to speculate based on diagnosis how many of those conditions were previously completely unknown, but it's definitively a minority so the risk of unexpectedly dropping dead is <0.01% and quite possibly much lower than that too.

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    6. Re:so? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Someone who is figurative about representation can only be a dumbshit hack, while someone who is literal about it is detached from reality.
      The only people who do any good in this world are people with the following two philosophies:
      1. I will improve myself and therefore society will be improved by 1 unit, and if i serve as an example to the surroundings then society will be better off.
      2. I will help the people around me or at a specific locale that i can see and physically meet, and i will help them with what i see are the problems by venue of observing them and helping on-the-spot, which will be tangible help. Helping in the field. Voluntary work is like this.
      The dumbshits who have this universalist view of representing entire collectives in the millions whether figuratively or literally always fall outside of the aforementioned 2 philosophies, always. They do more to damage the image of the collectives they represent than to improve anyone's life or situation.

      Also yes, i skipped a number. ~2.8 billion. My mistake.

    7. Re:so? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      In retrospect, his risk was 100%.

    8. Re: so? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      I was thinking of that last week actually. I volunteer, give money, etc. I am not the best, but I try. The biggest alleged Social Justice Warriors I know are generally some of the most self centred people I know when it comes to physically, with real time and money, helping real people. They give a nickel and feel like they have saved humanity, while others give far more. They are also some of the most privileged people I know.

      I am gay, non-white and disabled and come from a very impoverished background, single parent home with physical abuse and I see people that this SJW profile as nothing more than people who are experts at lipservice. That is on a good day. It is to make themselves feel good, not fix real problems.

      Where I am, we have people that are homeless and it is negative 15 around this time of year (I am in Canada). They need real money, real places to stay and real counselling and care. Protesting Christmas donations at Salvation Army for the homeless, while not even bothering to create alternatives has nothing to do with the people affected. They could not care less that they are in a Christian, Islamic or whatever shelter. They are just happy they are warm and eating. What it has to do with, is people that are even more self righteous than the people they claim to protest, while not lifting a finger for the alleged people they claim to represent without their consent.

      So, I agree with the notion of actually trying to physically help others (money and time), or encouraging others to do the same. Talk is cheap, as they say.

    9. Re: so? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So fewer than 1 in 10,000 young people randomly die each year? That's rare, but certainly accounted for within the number of workers at a place like Google.

    10. Re: so? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I was thinking of that last week actually. I volunteer, give money, etc. I am not the best, but I try.

      You try, which is a good start. Sometimes trying gives the wrong results and then you should stop, and perhaps try something else.

      There are people who believe that merely trying, or even merely having good intentions, is all that matters and that absolves from any responsibility from (negative) outcomes. I disagree with such people.

      The biggest alleged Social Justice Warriors I know are generally some of the most self centred people I know when it comes to physically, with real time and money, helping real people. They give a nickel and feel like they have saved humanity, while others give far more. They are also some of the most privileged people I know.

      No surprises there. It's been long a dark secret of the charity crowd, and the stories there... eh, you got an interwebz, you can use google. I've already read more than I can stomach. But why does a director of a charity "need" to make as much as a CEO of a (not-so-)small company?

      I am gay, non-white and disabled and come from a very impoverished background, single parent home with physical abuse and I see people that this SJW profile as nothing more than people who are experts at lipservice.

      I'm white, straight, male (and on the dole for having become unemployable 13 years ago, ha), and I sort-of agree with you.

      If you're interested, this, that and even the other migth be worth a read.

      That is on a good day. It is to make themselves feel good, not fix real problems.

      I think you're mixing up things a bit. There's the narcissists, who're in the charity space prancing around like they're saviours or something.

      There's also the SJWs, who're into wagging fingers under everyone's noses. Those people are more of a cult, which is a different thing. (See e.g. the discussion of "intersectionality" in the "this" link above, and in same the discussion of "identity politics" taught in sociology departments.) You might not see much of the latter if you're stuck in charity land.

      Talk is cheap, as they say.

      For some, talk is all there is to it. To the point that others saying things they don't agree with must be shut down with shouting and possibly violence. SJWs do this, as do *cough* certain other people *cough*.

      As they say, "the heretic isn't dangerous because he's wrong; he's dangerous because he might be right". And now we're talking religion, so yes, social justice-the-movement is religious in nature, full of dogma. Hence, a cult.

      Worse, a cult whose fount of origin is with academia. For me reason to want to shut down entire sociology departments, fire everyone, and let's see how they survive on their own medicine.

    11. Re: so? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      2.8 billion or so not 1.8 by my math.

    12. Re: so? by jd · · Score: 2

      So, for you, personally, you have to count every integer that exists before you can define the abstract set of integers?

      No?

      Abstract sets can contain every element, past present and future without having to inspect each one?

      Then I can apply any operation to the entire set without having to apply it individually.

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    13. Re:so? by Archangel+Michael · · Score: 0

      The people representing "Minorities' don't really understand, the smallest minority is the minority of one. There are 7.7 billion minority groups on the planet. They know they can't represent the individual, so they start representing the group. Without realizing it, they are siding with the tyranny against the individual, and are in a cause against that which they claim to represent, those groups that are oppressed by larger groups.

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    14. Re:so? by maxbuzz · · Score: 1

      Agree with your logic, but not your math:
      90 * 365.25 * 24 * 60 * 60 = 2,840,184.000
      so more like 2.8 billion seconds

      If you don't get at least 6 hours of sleep per day, you wont make it to 90.

    15. Re: so? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Violence and suicide being excluded it is 1 in 30,000. However, of those dying from medical condition how many had no known condition leading up to death? The odds of that happening is orders of magnitude less.

    16. Re:so? by diesalesmandie · · Score: 1

      The people representing "Minorities' don't really understand, the smallest minority is the minority of one. There are 7.7 billion minority groups on the planet. They know they can't represent the individual, so they start representing the group. Without realizing it, they are siding with the tyranny against the individual, and are in a cause against that which they claim to represent, those groups that are oppressed by larger groups.

      Again, I agree with your logic/reasoning. Not to sound like an apologist for the people representing "minorities", but do you have an alternative?

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    17. Re:so? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Sure. The US used to have a system of law that considered certain minorities to be subhuman and allowed them to be treated as property and, frankly, to be maimed or murdered at will. Those laws have been watered down and chipped away at decade after decade and year after year until the traces of them are _nearly_ all gone. Traces remain, however, and the cultural attitudes that created them are far from gone and there are plenty of individuals and groups continuously pushing new oppressive measures.

      Up against that, some sort of weird individual representation mandate for organizations representing minorities makes no sense. Honestly, it literally makes no sense. You seem to be advocating that, for example, representative governments should be banned if the leaders don't personally know every single voter.

    18. Re:so? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Forgot to check "Post Anonymously", eh?

    19. Re: so? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Don't ever try.

    20. Re: so? by jabuzz · · Score: 1

      My sisters friend at school, husband dropped dead at the office 6 months after they got married. There was absolutely no indication of any issue and they say he was dead by the time he hit the floor. Despite extensive efforts they where unable to revive him. A couple of years ago a young footballer (soccer) in the English Premier League collapse on the pitch, and for the prompt actions from a cardiac consultant in the crowd would have died. Well he did, but with expert help at immediate hand they where able to revive him. People drop dead usually from undiagnosed heart conditions (the case in both instances here), it might be rare but it does happen.

    21. Re:so? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Every once is a while, someone who appears to be perfectly healthy just suddenly dies. Film at 11.

      Is there some reason we would should be surprised that Google employees are not exempt from this possibility?

      Geez... some people gets all the luck!

    22. Re: so? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Trying is bad because it is possible that intentions do not lead to good, even if real children are fed, clothed, housed and counselled. Let them be hungry and homeless because there are charities with problems. Lets not give anything, and if they have it wrong, lets not try to correct it so we can righteously help these people according to our standards.

      I prefer a narcissist helping people in tangible ways with a loud mouth, to a narcissist with only talk. I prefer an inarticulate old lady sharing their religion while feeding people to a narcissist with only talk, even worse, typing.

  3. Identifies as evil by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    As long as he/she/they/xe/ze identify as alive, we must treat them that way out of respect for their identify. We cannot tolerate this abuse of the dominant livearchy, despite their claims that no accomplishments were made by the non-life-gifted.

    1. Re:Identifies as evil by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      As long as he/she/they/xe/ze identify as ...

      Please stop trying to make "xe" and "ze" happen. They're not going to happen. We already have "they" for gender-neutral, and it's quite sufficient, thank you.

    2. Re:Identifies as evil by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yes, but "xe" is the gender-neutral male version, and "ze" is the gender-neutral female version
      (notice how I listed the male version first; it's the way God intended, male > female, don't you know).

      CAP === 'subparts'

    3. Re: Identifies as evil by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "They" means "many" so it is really really grammatically incorrect to use it on an individual.

    4. Re: Identifies as evil by GuB-42 · · Score: 1

      The grammatically correct pronoun is "it".
      It is rarely used on people but I don't see any technical reason why it shouldn't.

  4. The only clue by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Police on the scene -- you know what I mean -- noted the letters YTREWQ on his forehead, but they were marked as if they were meant to be looked at in a mirror.

    At least it wasn't Comic Sans, said the world weary detective.

    1. Re:The only clue by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      And if he hadn't had a membrane keyboard, someone would have heard him fall.

    2. Re:The only clue by hcs_$reboot · · Score: 1

      More seriously, he was actually working on a recursive problem and made a stack overflow

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  5. How disrespectful! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You did not ask what was their preferred pronoun.

    1. Re: How disrespectful! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Singular-they has been a feature in English for referring to an unknown subject for 700 years, it's a little late to be complaining now.

    2. Re: How disrespectful! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Language evolves. Like all evolution, it doesn't necessarily mean an improvement.

    3. Re: How disrespectful! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Found part of a deleted chat log.

      They exist!
      They are coming f...

    4. Re: How disrespectful! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      it changes to better fit our needs. the idea of an objectively superior state of a language is risible

    5. Re: How disrespectful! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You flunked all your grammar classes didn't you.

    6. Re: How disrespectful! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Are you sure? I have it on good authority that's not quite the case ...

  6. Still suspicious by DaMattster · · Score: 2

    I think an autopsy needs to be ordered. If there are no obvious causes, then further investigation needs to happen.

    1. Re:Still suspicious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I believe he's an expert, like most top commenters on Slashdot. The homicide department probably reads Slashdot to get important clues.

    2. Re:Still suspicious by thegarbz · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Can I interest you in a jump to conclusions mat? They are great. You can just claim something as suspicious based on an article with only around 200 words, most of which you clearly didn't read otherwise you'd know that the medical examiner is already tasked with determining the cause of death.

    3. Re:Still suspicious by magusxxx · · Score: 2

      "I'm going to allow this." - Futurama judge.

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    4. Re:Still suspicious by sunking2 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Autopsies are always done when the cause of death isn't known, suspicious or not. 99% of them are done for purely medical history reasons.

    5. Re: Still suspicious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Thanks Mr. Internet Detective, what would we do without you?

      Though I think it's more likely that he died of natural causes. Yes, this does happen to people at his age. Brain aneurysm, blood clot, acute cardiac failure, etc. My coworker nearly died of a bifurcated aorta. In many cases, the symptom of these is just tiredness, easily confused with the tiredness most office workers experience later in the day.

      Why this is news? Who the fuck knows.

    6. Re:Still suspicious by flargleblarg · · Score: 1

      Chewie, take the professor in the back and plug him into the hyperdrive.

    7. Re:Still suspicious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I guess he refers to the youngster being worked to death, literally. And something I do agree... who ordered that person what, to being working to death...

      You know, "I want this tracked in visual basic, and I want it in 10min" sort of stress...

    8. Re:Still suspicious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Google execs found their leaker!

    9. Re:Still suspicious by hcs_$reboot · · Score: 1

      Wow, what an insightful comment ; nobody thought of that.

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    10. Re: Still suspicious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      How much?

    11. Re:Still suspicious by demonlapin · · Score: 2

      No, they are not. Autopsies are done when the family or the coroner requests one. I had a high school friend drop dead at the age of 24. He was not autopsied. His death was not mysterious or suspicious; he had a previously-unknown heart arrhythmia that manifested itself. He wasn’t doing anything unusual at the time. He was just unlucky.

    12. Re:Still suspicious by siriuskase · · Score: 1

      How was this "previously-unknown heart arrhythmia" discovered? Healthy young people who drop dead are always autopsied unless they are already diagnosed with a terminally ill disease, and even then, they might be autopsied. For one thing, a healthy young man dropping dead for no reason looks a lot like homicide, so that must be ruled in or out.

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    13. Re:Still suspicious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Perhaps different jurisdictions have different rules on when an autopsy is or is not performed.

    14. Re:Still suspicious by demonlapin · · Score: 1

      Maybe in your jurisdiction. Not in mine. Laws vary by state. There was nothing suspicious about his death; he was in publc, his pregnant wife was next to him, and the most likely cause of death was Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.

    15. Re:Still suspicious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I think what the commenter is wondering is how you know it was a heart failure if no autopsy was performed. How do you (or the person that informed you) know that it wasn't a busted blood vessel in the brain or aorta? Or an inflammation of the heart muscle due to illness? Or any other unlikely but possible cause of death in a seemingly healthy individual.

      Sure I they could have made inquires to his wife/friends/family and found out that he often got dizzy when training hard or something. But still odd that they would proclaim the cause without an autopsy.

    16. Re:Still suspicious by demonlapin · · Score: 1

      The history alone is perfectly adequate for the diagnosis. His father is a physician, and I was in medical school at the time. Neither of us had any question about what happened, and there would not necessarily be any premonitory symptoms - cf. Len Bias.

  7. uploaded by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    He uploaded himself to Google's cloud

  8. Chelsea, New York City by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Just putting this out there that they mean Chelsea in Manhattan, New York City.

    For those of us whose first notion was Chelsea in London. You know, on the other side of the big-ish pond.

    1. Re:Chelsea, New York City by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 2

      Just putting this out there that they mean Chelsea in Manhattan, New York City.

      For those of us whose first notion was Chelsea in London. You know, on the other side of the big-ish pond.

      I though Chelsea was Obama's daughter...

    2. Re:Chelsea, New York City by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 1

      I thought it was something on Netflix...

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    3. Re:Chelsea, New York City by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This is an american centric site. Deal with it.

    4. Re:Chelsea, New York City by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      As opposed to Chelsea in Melbourne?

    5. Re:Chelsea, New York City by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      They is (or is it "are" though it is a singular "they"?) dealing with it - by pointing out that murkins should broaden their views.

    6. Re:Chelsea, New York City by Chelloveck · · Score: 1

      Good thing you clarified. I was thinking Chelsea, MI, home of Jiffy Mix. Sounded like a clear case of one too many corn muffins.

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    7. Re:Chelsea, New York City by siriuskase · · Score: 1

      I thought it was a kind of morning.

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    8. Re:Chelsea, New York City by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You mean the same Chelsea, Michigan that is home to one too many dumb and dumberer actors? He would appreciate all these stupid jokes at the expense of a dead man.

  9. Won't you spare a thought? by Hallux-F-Sinister · · Score: 4, Funny

    Next time you just hop on google and start "googling" things, think of the poor, poor 22 year old engineers with those giant stacks of books and banks and banks of filing cabinets, and how rapidly they have to run down them, find a document, type it into their terminals at lightning speed, just so you can ask dumb questions, like, "is the moon bigger than the sun?"

    Have a heart and THINK before you just ask google something. This guy was evidently worked to death.

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    1. Re:Won't you spare a thought? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Next time you just hop on google and start "googling" things, think of the poor, poor 22 year old engineers with those giant stacks of books and banks and banks of filing cabinets, and how rapidly they have to run down them, find a document, type it into their terminals at lightning speed, just so you can ask dumb questions, like, "is the moon bigger than the sun?"

      Have a heart and THINK before you just ask google something. This guy was evidently worked to death.

      That's not how indexing and search engine programming works.

    2. Re:Won't you spare a thought? by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 1

      Next time you just hop on google and start "googling" things, think of the poor, poor 22 year old engineers with those giant stacks of books and banks and banks of filing cabinets, and how rapidly they have to run

      Wait... they’re using people? I thought it was some sort of really fast dog.

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    3. Re:Won't you spare a thought? by Hallux-F-Sinister · · Score: 1

      Next time you just hop on google and start "googling" things, think of the poor, poor 22 year old engineers with those giant stacks of books and banks and banks of filing cabinets, and how rapidly they have to run

      Wait... they’re using people? I thought it was some sort of really fast dog.

      No, brah... that was Lycos. Lycos, sadly, died in 1998 after fetching Claudia Schiffer about seventy eight million times in 30 minutes after they ran that ad and lonely horny guys decided to try it out. Also, Claudia Schiffer was probably pretty exhausted after that, too.

      He was such a good boy. :'(

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    4. Re:Won't you spare a thought? by Hallux-F-Sinister · · Score: 1

      Next time you just hop on google and start "googling" things, think of the poor, poor 22 year old engineers with those giant stacks of books and banks and banks of filing cabinets, and how rapidly they have to run down them, find a document, type it into their terminals at lightning speed, just so you can ask dumb questions, like, "is the moon bigger than the sun?"

      Have a heart and THINK before you just ask google something. This guy was evidently worked to death.

      That's not how indexing and search engine programming works.

      If you have to explain a joke, you kill it.

      This joke did nothing to you, and now it's dead. Happy?

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    5. Re:Won't you spare a thought? by Shompol · · Score: 1

      Absolutely! For those who want to learn how Google search actually works.

  10. He read the comments by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    NEVER read the comments.

  11. Karshi or Ennui? by bobstreo · · Score: 2

    Dead at Desk was always one of my worst nightmares.

    3 or 4 people in my group were hospitalized during a death march project that involved 200+ consultants over the course of less than a year.

    1. Re:Karshi or Ennui? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Dead at Desk was always one of my worst nightmares.

      3 or 4 people in my group were hospitalized during a death march project that involved 200+ consultants over the course of less than a year.

      Were those 3 or 5 workers fired for having the nerve to be hospitalised?

    2. Re: Karshi or Ennui? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      They were summarily executed.

    3. Re: Karshi or Ennui? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Just as I suspected, this happened in Japan or N. Korea, amiright?
      Oh wait, N. Korea doesn't have hospitals ...

      CAP === 'multiple'

    4. Re:Karshi or Ennui? by Dunbal · · Score: 1

      Depends on what is being displayed on your screen at the time...

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    5. Re:Karshi or Ennui? by Seven+Spirals · · Score: 1

      Dead@Desk is also my nightmare. It comes from one terrible experience. It happened to a guy I knew pretty well. I worked with this guy pretty closely on a night shift with only two other people for a couple of years. We both switched jobs and ended up at the same hellhole company. About a month before I quit, I went to lunch and I saw him with his head down on his desk. That was pretty normal. He was a somewhat heavy guy in his 50's and he would often read or take a ciesta during lunch time. So, I thought nothing of it. When I came back from lunch there were fire trucks and ambulances parked in the front of the building. I had this sinking feeling and as I went back to my desk someone stopped me at the elevator and told me that my buddy Dan had just had a stroke and died. I still feel guilty to this day because I don't know if he was alive, dead, or needing help when I left and I saw him with his head down. I feel like I should have noticed something and maybe it would have helped. He left behind a very kind wife and a couple of grown kids who were devastated. It also made me a little angry at others who sat closer to him and said they only said something after they noticed the smell of urine (and that was much too late). Anyhow, sorry for the depressing story, but man Dead@Desk is a real thing in IT and let's all plan on pulling the ripcord before that happens.

  12. It's Demons by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The executives at Google can't resist their hunger for the occasional human soul.

  13. Another case of sudden heart attack death by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    I have no idea why it happens so much more frequently these days, but every now and then you get reports of young adults and teens just dropping dead from a heart condition nobody knew they had. Young athletes regularly get screened for these nowadays, but most people aren't aware of the risk.

    1. Re:Another case of sudden heart attack death by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Dude, two people had heart attacks at my work this week. Fucking bizarre. One one old as hell, and the other weighed about 500 pounds, but still...what is triggering this? The cold? It's not really that cold. Weird.

    2. Re: Another case of sudden heart attack death by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      There's a prophecy in some old book that few believe in about the hearts of men failing them in the last days.

    3. Re: Another case of sudden heart attack death by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Kira strikes again.

    4. Re:Another case of sudden heart attack death by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      Infection, even from a flue, can in rare cases cause heart attacks. My brother had this happen at 25 years old. The worst part was that the ER nurses at the hospital thought he was just some kid OD'ing on drugs so gave him the lowest priority, as someone that young is unlikely to have a "legitimate" heart problem. It took yelling from his CO showing up several minutes later to convince them he wasn't some guy who just stumbled in from an alleyway. Normally, if you were a bit older, and mention having any sort of chest or heart problem in an ER, you get swarmed by people checking if it is a heart attack.

      That said, I don't know why this is news. There is some chance of people dying at any age from unknown medical conditions or some really bad luck. Unless this is directly related to his work at Google, then it is something that happens at any large company from time to time.

    5. Re:Another case of sudden heart attack death by quantaman · · Score: 1

      I have no idea why it happens so much more frequently these days, but every now and then you get reports of young adults and teens just dropping dead from a heart condition nobody knew they had. Young athletes regularly get screened for these nowadays, but most people aren't aware of the risk.

      I don't think this happens more frequently, it's just that historically people died much more frequently. So even when someone young and seemingly healthy died without a clear explanation it didn't seem much out of the ordinary since young and healthy people were dying on a regular basis.

      This still seems odd as a news item, it's very tragic (and I'm not a fan of all the people trying to make a funny comment) but people do die at work.

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    6. Re:Another case of sudden heart attack death by quantaman · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Infection, even from a flue, can in rare cases cause heart attacks. My brother had this happen at 25 years old. The worst part was that the ER nurses at the hospital thought he was just some kid OD'ing on drugs so gave him the lowest priority, as someone that young is unlikely to have a "legitimate" heart problem. It took yelling from his CO showing up several minutes later to convince them he wasn't some guy who just stumbled in from an alleyway. Normally, if you were a bit older, and mention having any sort of chest or heart problem in an ER, you get swarmed by people checking if it is a heart attack.

      That said, I don't know why this is news. There is some chance of people dying at any age from unknown medical conditions or some really bad luck. Unless this is directly related to his work at Google, then it is something that happens at any large company from time to time.

      A few years back a female friend, probably about 26 at time time, had some sort of bad chest infection (not a cold, but probably not life threatening). Either way she went to the doctor and mentioned it was giving her chest pains... 10 minutes later they had her in emergency for an overnight visit.

      It did take her a few weeks to fully recover from the infection, but "chest pains" turned out ot be a magic phrase that escalated things very quickly.

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    7. Re:Another case of sudden heart attack death by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I have no idea why it happens so much more frequently these days, but every now and then you get reports of young adults and teens just dropping dead from a heart condition nobody knew they had. Young athletes regularly get screened for these nowadays, but most people aren't aware of the risk.

      I don't think this happens more frequently, it's just that historically people died much more frequently. So even when someone young and seemingly healthy died without a clear explanation it didn't seem much out of the ordinary since young and healthy people were dying on a regular basis.

      This still seems odd as a news item, it's very tragic (and I'm not a fan of all the people trying to make a funny comment) but people do die at work.

      Happened to a cousin of mine, he went to take a nap and never woke up. After that tragedy his parents were having all of his younger siblings screened as a precaution.

    8. Re:Another case of sudden heart attack death by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Wow, I hope your brother is ok, and that they found and fixed whatever the problem was. I'm glad his CO was there, to help him.

      ... mention having any sort of chest or heart problem in an ER, you get swarmed by people checking if it is a heart attack.

      In California, I think if you tell a medical person that your chest or heart hurts, then by law they have to treat your case like an emergency case. Something like that.

      So if I talk to a medical person, and I know that my heart is ok, I'm careful not to say the word "heart" or chest". For example, if I have the flu, I don't tell the advise nurse that my chest hurts. I tell her that my lungs hurt.

    9. Re:Another case of sudden heart attack death by sheramil · · Score: 5, Funny

      Infection, even from a flue, can in rare cases cause heart attacks.

      Damn straight. Clean those chimneys, folks.

    10. Re:Another case of sudden heart attack death by RhettLivingston · · Score: 1

      It's news for the same reason so many other things are news today. Count up the number of sub-25 y/o people in Google, Tesla, Facebook, Apple, and other companies that people investigate every single iota of information escaping in hopes of finding something to put in the news and multiply that by the accumulated chance of every freak thing you can think of and you get numerous articles like this implying mountains where there aren't even molehills.

      Truthfully, it doesn't even have to relate to a watched entity. It just has to be freaky. Virtually every story I see every day does not seem to rise to the level of probability that a reasonable person should be concerned about it. It is why we live in some of the safest times ever in our country and believe the opposite.

    11. Re:Another case of sudden heart attack death by twosat · · Score: 1

      I remember reading a newspaper report about 30 years ago about the inquest into a teenager's sudden death. It turned out that he had an undetected heart defect. He had had sex with his girlfriend 3 times in about an hour and a half and the effort was too much for his 19 year-old heart.

    12. Re: Another case of sudden heart attack death by jd · · Score: 1

      That's the one that predicts Satan ruling for a thousand years, right?

      The one that was used as the basis for Left Behind, about a populist tyrant that destroys the free press and moves the embassy to Jerusalem?

      Yeah, I can see people being concerned.

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    13. Re:Another case of sudden heart attack death by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      but "chest pains" turned out ot be a magic phrase that escalated things very quickly.

      how is this magic? the chest cavity houses a couple major organs and associated infrastructure that are required for life (heart and lungs). Given that a severe failure of either of those organs can quickly lead to death, doctors dont mess around with any sort of chest pain that they cannot quickly rule out (like a cracked rib).

      Ive pulled muscles in my chest (the ones that tilt your head down towards the chest) and i was bumped ahead of several people in the waiting room, xrays, ekg, blood work all done right away and put on the short list for a MRI if any of those came back with questionable results. All of that because i had a pain in my chest that i couldnt clearly attribute to a specific event, thankfully the tests all came back with good results and then i was discharged with some painkillers and sent home for recovery.

      This is the purpose of triage and is done at every single hospital, it means that the people who are at high risk of fatality generally get looked at first. i live in Canada and i appreciate our health professionals and the jobs they do, the next time you hear about a Canadian complaining about hospital wait times ask them what they were at the hospital for. Our health care system may have its faults but as someone who has used it a few times i think it is amazing.

    14. Re: Another case of sudden heart attack death by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Did the coroner rule it "death by snu snu"?

  14. Karshi by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Karshi
    , which can be translated literally as "overwork death" in Japanese, is occupational sudden mortality.

  15. ...found around 9p.m. on Friday... by magusxxx · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...said nothing until Wednesday because, as the junior put it, "He still looked more productive than half the people here."

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  16. Actuallty it is Karoshi by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    from Japanese ka excess + ro labour + shi death

  17. sounds like a Japanese salary man story by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Death by overwork. "Karoshi"

  18. It has begun by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Google has unleashed a virus that can infect people over the internet. This was just the first.

  19. Seriously? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    A 22-year-old man is DEAD and the asshats on this site are making their usual pathetic jokes?

    This site needs an enema with a power washer.

    1. Re: Seriously? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      He's a white guy, he's expendable

    2. Re:Seriously? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      always a good idea,
      when making such claims,
      to start with the man or woman,
      you see whenever you look in the mirror.

      captcha : owners

    3. Re: Seriously? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      So, did he have a red shirt?

    4. Re:Seriously? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Children are dying of starvation all over the world and you're busy high-horsing about what some people think on a website?

      Sounds like your priorities might be out of whack.

    5. Re:Seriously? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Boo fucking who. People die got over it. I have every god damn to make what ever jokes I want.

    6. Re:Seriously? by Calydor · · Score: 4, Insightful

      As someone else said, there are 7.7 billion people on the planet and 1.8 billion seconds in a 90 year life span.

      None of us here knew the guy, what are we supposed to do? Go into hysterics because he's dead and it's so TERRIBLE AND THE WORLD HAS ENDED AND NOTHING WILL EVER BE THE SAME EVER AGAIN!

      Do you realize how many people died around the world while I was typing this very post? Do you mourn all of them? And if so, do you then mourn the people who died while you mourned the first group?

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    7. Re:Seriously? by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 1

      A 22-year-old man is DEAD and the asshats on this site are making their usual pathetic jokes?

      Hey, lighten up! We have learned to cope using humor but we all know the seriousness of the situation (of which this young man's death is evidence) of being forced to switch from vi to Emacs.

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    8. Re: Seriously? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So, did he have a red shirt?

      How is this not rated Funny +5?

      Do that few people understand it?

    9. Re:Seriously? by Tengoo · · Score: 1

      Man, are you going to be outraged when you see what the rest of the Internets are like...

    10. Re: Seriously? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      People like you are why comedy is trash these days. Making a reference to an old TV show isn't "humor".

      Laughter should be more than a signal to those around you that you are fluent in pop culture.

    11. Re:Seriously? by hcs_$reboot · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Seriously? This is what makes this site different, read the +5 jokes, they're not mocking the guy or his family, they're about bringing a relaxed atmosphere to a dramatic subject. Typical SJW.

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    12. Re:Seriously? by ZombieCatInABox · · Score: 1

      Why do you words ?

    13. Re:Seriously? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      ... their usual pathetic jokes?

      Virtue signalling only works when you put your name on it.

      Hundreds of thousands of people die everyday, we can't cry for all of them and I'm betting that yesterday, you thought about zero of those daily deaths.

    14. Re: Seriously? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      He's a white guy, he's expendable

      If he's a single/unmarried hetero, doubly so.

    15. Re:Seriously? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I would definitely not mourn you. Die in a fire.

    16. Re:Seriously? by quantaman · · Score: 1

      As someone else said, there are 7.7 billion people on the planet and 1.8 billion seconds in a 90 year life span.

      None of us here knew the guy, what are we supposed to do? Go into hysterics because he's dead and it's so TERRIBLE AND THE WORLD HAS ENDED AND NOTHING WILL EVER BE THE SAME EVER AGAIN!

      Do you realize how many people died around the world while I was typing this very post? Do you mourn all of them? And if so, do you then mourn the people who died while you mourned the first group?

      No one is saying you need to mourn him, I wouldn't expect most people who lack a personal connection to have an emotional response.

      But if you're not mourning there are other possible responses (or non-responses) than insensitive jokes.

      Keep in mind this guy worked at Google, exactly the demographic who reads slashdot. Some of his friends and co-workers might actually be reading this comment section.

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    17. Re:Seriously? by Calydor · · Score: 1

      If you go onto the internet and see an article about a guy you knew who died, and you start reading the article and then the comments and you DO NOT EXPECT the internet to be the internet then you shouldn't be on the internet in the first place.

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    18. Re: Seriously? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Tech workers are not really people.

    19. Re:Seriously? by quantaman · · Score: 1

      If you go onto the internet and see an article about a guy you knew who died, and you start reading the article and then the comments and you DO NOT EXPECT the internet to be the internet then you shouldn't be on the internet in the first place.

      The fact that some people are crappy isn't a justification to be crappy yourself.

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  20. At his Work Terminal? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ...Dies At His Work Terminal

    What is that exactly? I've never heard anyone refer to their desk, cubicle, or office as a work terminal.

    Did he have a computer or computer terminal at his desk?

    Was he found dead at his desk?

    It almost sounds like something they had/have for debtors in Ready Player One.

    Or the Treadmill in Georgian/Dickensian England.

    1. Re:At his Work Terminal? by Entrope · · Score: 2

      It was his work terminal because that was the end of the line for him.

    2. Re:At his Work Terminal? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Should have used a terminal emulator so he could just turn off the simulation.

  21. Could it be... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Karoshi?

    1. Re:Could it be... by hcs_$reboot · · Score: 1

      Uh... he was working at Google, remember?

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  22. This is news? by markdavis · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Although it is tragic that someone in their 20's drops dead at work.... to me, this is not so rare or interesting. And because it happened at Google, that doesn't really make it "news for nerds." Besides, he has only been at Google for a few months.

    Now, if he were some famous tech person, or if his death was linked to tech work, or computer work, or has a technological link or the situation contained some science or part of some study... perhaps that would be interesting. Right now we know almost NOTHING about why he died. Congenital defect, drug abuse, rare disease, accidentally poisoned, stroke, nothing.

    1. Re:This is news? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This isn't uncommon in some places...I'm looking at you Japan. Usually has to do with people taking stimulants and usually happens around day 5 or 6 with no sleep, with a giant pile of stress already weighing on them.

    2. Re:This is news? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'm guessing that it's either that or a blood clot.

    3. Re:This is news? by dsgrntlxmply · · Score: 3, Insightful

      It is interesting because sudden death at age 22 ought to be rare. Recall the recent death of a young woman at University of Maryland from an adenovirus infection, followed by the discovery there of around 30 more cases of adenovirus, some requiring hospitalization. Over the years, clusters of adenovirus and of meningitis have arisen in situations where young people are making a transition into living in close quarters with others: dorms, military training, and how about someone starting work in an expensive urban area? (Silicon Valley Airbnb listings have several dorm-like situations specifically marketed to young technical workers.)

      Aneurysms, cardiac electrical defects, septicemia and valve damage following dental work (prime age for wisdom tooth extraction)... My worst episodes of flu (or perhaps something with flu-like symptoms, like adenovirus) were between ages 18 and 27. At age 18 I was failing to recover from what seemed like flu, then developed high fever that affected my judgment; someone finally noticed and dragged me to the doctor: bacterial pneumonia.

      A colleague of mine some years ago, age mid 30's, was out of work with what began as typical flu. It evolved badly, attacked his heart, and left him with 20% loss of heart function.

      The case is of public interest: a person at an age where serious consequences of undiscovered congenital defects can appear, increased exposure through new living situations, immune system not yet hardened by previous exposures, "it's just the flu", and the idea that one ought to just power through any situation.

      There is an immediate lesson that does not require a medical examiner's findings from one tragic case. If you have someone age 17-28 in your family situation or in your general circumstances, yes this is the physically most capable age where people do amazing things, but it also has special vulnerabilities, including suddenly dropping dead on a basketball court. Keep watch and be aware that, though occurrence is rare, things can go bad quickly for those with undiscovered defects, or who become infected by something especially bad.

    4. Re:This is news? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      It depends on the details. When my roommate started at Google on a Monday, after leaving for work on Wednesday he didn't come home that night or Thursday night. I tried calling him, but his phone was dead so I went by the parking lot early AM on Friday morning, and his car was there. After pounding on the door, I finally got someone to it to go check on him. His entire team had been there since Wednesday morning so he didn't feel like he could leave. I talked him into leaving since he wasn't making sense. Seattle Hundreds are bad and I've done them at four different companies, but this was something worse. He quit about three months later since he couldn't keep his blood sugar in check due to stress, lack of sleep, and bad eating.

    5. Re:This is news? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It is interesting because sudden death at age 22 ought to be rare.

      It is rare, but hardly unheard of.
      In a city the size of New York, I'd expect a couple of young people dying suddenly like that every year.

    6. Re:This is news? by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      this is not so rare or interesting

      I could not disagree more. What you have here is something that is quite rare and often almost a meme associated with Japanese working culture. The fact that it happened in the USA puts it statistically in the incredibly rare bucket, the fact that it happened at Google could be dumb luck, but it is nothing if not interesting.

    7. Re:This is news? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It is because GOOGLE KILLS!!!

  23. I wish there is a way to help solve the mystery .. by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: 5, Insightful
    If only there is a sort of black box like they have in airplanes ...

    Some company that tracks every email, every text, every search and logs them all, making it available for the police to reconstruct the last few events and keystrokes of a dead person .... If only such a company existed they can help the police ....

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  24. 200+ Consultants ? by Crashmarik · · Score: 0

    200+ Consultants ? That's either or a sign of the apocalypse, or time to find new employment.

  25. Re:SHOULDA BEEN YOU KEN DOLL EXCEPT YOU'RE UNEMPLO by diesalesmandie · · Score: 1

    THERE WILL BE CONSEQUENCES FOR YOUR LIES NAZI FAGGOT KEN DOLL

    Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING. Filter error:

    WTF did SuperKendall do? Is the new Cdreimer? Speaking of the latter, where is that guy?

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  26. Relevant to me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I start a new job at Google next month. BEEN NICE KNOWING YOU!

    1. Re:Relevant to me by sunking2 · · Score: 1

      Not when they trace this back to you and see how little you seem to care about the deaths of your fellow employees.

  27. Programmers don't die, by PPH · · Score: 1

    they just GOSUB without RETURN.

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    1. Re:Programmers don't die, by omnichad · · Score: 1

      Sounds more like GOTO hell.

    2. Re:Programmers don't die, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I long jump for s8n.

    3. Re:Programmers don't die, by sit1963nz · · Score: 1

      Perhaps it was a NOT function that got him.

    4. Re:Programmers don't die, by CanadianMacFan · · Score: 1

      They just hit an unhandled exception.

    5. Re:Programmers don't die, by PPH · · Score: 1

      systemd failed to respawn a process that died.

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  28. Well... by StikyPad · · Score: 1

    Looks like itâ(TM)s time for Google to reset their âoeN days without a workplace fatalityâ board.

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    1. Re:Well... by omnichad · · Score: 2

      What, Google doesn't support Unicode either?

  29. Re: SHOULDA BEEN YOU KEN DOLL EXCEPT YOU'RE UNEMPL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    He just listened to his manager talk about going above and beyond to get bonus and promotions ðY

  30. Yeah by Greyfox · · Score: 1

    Turns out that dude really couldn't hold his neurotoxin. The rest of the complex has barely slowed down yet. Things should pick up sometime around Bring Your Daughter to Work day.

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  31. Re:I wish there is a way to help solve the mystery by iggymanz · · Score: 1

    Why? In all likelihood it would just show him dying without visible cause. This happens sometimes, and then autopsy reveals internal malfunction or condition that caused it. For example, there are undetectable conditions that can cause a young person to go into cardiac arrest.

  32. Google - where engineers go to die by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Enjoy your stay!

    1. Re:Google - where engineers go to die by sit1963nz · · Score: 1

      Apparently the last thing he heard was a
      #!
      isLive() returned false.

  33. FTFY: The only clue was the falling characters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    A young man thought he was ready to find the answer to the question. Little did he know that if you die in The Matrix, you die in the real world. The body cannot live without the mind.

  34. Wow! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    They must take their code of conduct there very seriously!
    Either that or he worked himself to death.

  35. Very good by Brett+Buck · · Score: 1

    I am sure he gained great face with the company.

  36. Where's * FOLLOW* button? by ElitistWhiner · · Score: 1

    I've pulled all nighters. Hell even day'n nighters on end, 36 hrs. no sleep, in rooms without windows... somewhere; no matter. At 22 y.o. this young man had his peak of youth vitality and creativity just ahead. So this be one to follow SLASHDOT as a subscription.

    If you don't; you don't care - why you here?

    1. Re: Where's * FOLLOW* button? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Can someone translate this guy's post to English please. I'm serious.

  37. Re:I wish there is a way to help solve the mystery by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: 1

    whooosh.

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  38. Re:I wish there is a way to help solve the mystery by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Whooosh" doesn't have the intended effect if the joke wasn't funny to begin with.

  39. AHA! Now they can start using that slogan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    All gave some.
    Some gave all.

  40. Re:I wish there is a way to help solve the mystery by omnichad · · Score: 1

    The NSA??!

  41. Not only Google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Several years ago, Qualcomm employee at San Diego which was reported in the news, but another one happened just a year or so after which they tried really hard to keep quiet. Both happened at the same building "WT".
    https://www.thelayoff.com/t/CM...
    https://www.lajollalight.com/s...

    Then another suicide happened again earlier this year.

    https://www.sandiegoreader.com...
    https://timesofsandiego.com/bu...

  42. 23 may means death, but 22 - 2 + 2 = 4 = 2^2 ... by tiffanytimbric · · Score: 1

    It does seem 23 is an appropriate age number for death to occur at, but 22 -> 2 + 2 = 4 = 2^2, so this is the first power of two and he was a programmer. Unless, he really was 23 by ...

  43. Re:I wish there is a way to help solve the mystery by iggymanz · · Score: 1

    nope, you were wooshed, you wooshie

  44. Simple by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    He must have disagreed with the angry crazies at Google...so he got whacked.

  45. Re: SHOULDA BEEN YOU KEN DOLL EXCEPT YOU'RE UNEMPL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    He dared to say something nasty about Corporate Progressive nazis. So now they cyberstalk him.

  46. Sucked Dry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    His essence was sucked dry by an ETL process of the search engine and turned into nutrients.

    1. Re:Sucked Dry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I like to believe that this what actually happened.

  47. Ironic.. by hairyfeet · · Score: 3, Interesting

    When I just read about Google imposing STASI like tactics of turning worker against worker in an article entitled "Snitches Get Stitches" it makes me wonder how far Google has strayed from "don't be evil". China is kinda hardcore ya know so maybe an employee took the new directives a little too close to heart?

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    1. Re:Ironic.. by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 1

      They certainly didn't fire the one who leaked James Damore's memo. Instead they retaliated against the man who was trying to help them figure out why they have such a hard time hiring a diverse workplace. That's basically when they jumped the "don't be evil" shark and came down firmly on the side of the Stasi. Informing on your colleagues for punishment is pretty much what the Stasi did. Despite what you might have heard, they relied mostly on turning workers against workers.

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  48. Murder by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Murdered for code...

  49. I reckon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It was the Great Value coffee from Walmart that finished him off.

  50. Back in the 90s, a 20 something Dell engineer... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Back in the 90s, a 20 something Dell engineer I worked with died suddenly with no trauma. The cause: stress induced aneurysm.

    Everyone there was under so much stress to [look like] they were performing because they'd hire at good wages and the have a round of layoffs a few months later.

  51. Not Murder by sit1963nz · · Score: 1

    Just worked to death, I am just surprised it happened at Google rather than an Amazon fulfilment centre, though I guess Amazon can ship the bodies elsewhere...

  52. Apple Watch might have saved him... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    If he had an undiagnosed condition which caused his death... an Apple watch could have warned him...

  53. haunted office now by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I'd hate to be the next person sitting at his desk or even the neighboring desks.

  54. My condolences to the family... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ... and the poor soul who has to read that stack trace.

  55. That's what happens ... by Qbertino · · Score: 1

    ... when your try to make sense of Wordpresses application model.

    Poor young fellow.

    --
    We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
  56. Re: I wish there is a way to help solve the myster by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I'd probably die in middle of windows upgrade. No logs needed.

  57. Trauma by GrahamJ · · Score: 1

    Does using an Android device count as a sign of trauma?

  58. Blipverts! Ads that kill! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Rumor has it he was working on a new ad technology called "Blipverts." He took over the old code base from an engineer named "Bryce." A nosy journalist named "Edison Carter" has been snooping around he is aided by a self-aware AI known as "Max Headroom."

  59. Eh by skovnymfe · · Score: 1

    When all you eat for years on end are depression meds and adderall, this sort of thing is bound to happen when you suddenly discover working in a cubicle isn't all it's made out to be, and all the effort you put in over the last 22 years is ultimately worth nothing at all.

    Don't be a slave to the machine, people. Wake up.

  60. OSHA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    GOOGLE is not immunized from OSHA investigations. Workplace fatalities often get their interest.
    Work-related fatalities for cases inspected by Federal or State OSHA. If the working environment is unsafe, the situation is covered by the general duty clause - even if it is not explicitly covered in the prescriptive regulations.

  61. Don't turn off his computer! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    He's in there somewhere, helping processes that are fighting for the User!

  62. they can find some clues by... by afaiktoit · · Score: 1

    checking his google search history for symptoms. ba-dump.

  63. Re:I wish there is a way to help solve the mystery by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Google

  64. Too many energy drinks, perhaps? by X!0mbarg · · Score: 1

    Maybe he hit his limit on Red-Bull or Mountain Dew input and his system simply crashed for good.
    There are people out there that simply shouldn't have them in the first place, but younger folks feel they are immune to the effects.
    Surely the M.E. will do a through examination and come up with an accurate cause of death.
    It just goes to show: When it's your time to go, it's your time.