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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
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.
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.
I think an autopsy needs to be ordered. If there are no obvious causes, then further investigation needs to happen.
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.
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.
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.
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.
...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.
from Japanese ka excess + ro labour + shi death
Death by overwork. "Karoshi"
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.
Karoshi?
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.
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 ....
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
It was his work terminal because that was the end of the line for him.
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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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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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?
they just GOSUB without RETURN.
Have gnu, will travel.
Not when they trace this back to you and see how little you seem to care about the deaths of your fellow employees.
Looks like itâ(TM)s time for Google to reset their âoeN days without a workplace fatalityâ board.
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
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.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
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.
I am sure he gained great face with the company.
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?
whooosh.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
"Whooosh" doesn't have the intended effect if the joke wasn't funny to begin with.
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.
The NSA??!
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
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 ...
nope, you were wooshed, you wooshie
where 2,840,184.000 should be 2,840,184,000 (oops)
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?
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
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.
Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
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...
Apparently the last thing he heard was a
#!
isLive() returned false.
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.
... when your try to make sense of Wordpresses application model.
Poor young fellow.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
Does using an Android device count as a sign of trauma?
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.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
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.
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.
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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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.
checking his google search history for symptoms. ba-dump.
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.
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.