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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.
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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.
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.
...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.
He's a white guy, he's expendable
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
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.
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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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?
Infection, even from a flue, can in rare cases cause heart attacks.
Damn straight. Clean those chimneys, folks.
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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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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