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22-Year-Old Google Engineer Dies At His Work Terminal (nypost.com)
"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."
"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."
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.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
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.
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.
Our reign has gone on long enough. Indeed. Summon the meteors.
...said nothing until Wednesday because, as the junior put it, "He still looked more productive than half the people here."
Care killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.
So, did he have a red shirt?
Infection, even from a flue, can in rare cases cause heart attacks.
Damn straight. Clean those chimneys, folks.