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Andy Gross has died
- Jaruzel 9y agoPardon my Ignorance, but who is Andy Gross?
- tty7 9y agoThe guy who died
- gremlinsinc 9y agoAn actual article, blog post, or something would be better than a tweet, even if I knew who he was -- the tweet itself has no more substance than the title of this post... and probably shouldn't be shared on HN because there's no extra context. I'd like to know who he was, what he worked on, etc... The tweet is too vague.
- Meph504 9y agoTweets have a long established history of being empty yet valid content here. And this is not to be consisted a full bio by any means, but here are the highlights. Andy Gross was Co-creator of Riak and Webmachine, Chief Architect @ Basho. Formerly @ Mochi, Apple, Akamai, a noted speaker, and lover of cats.
- gremlinsinc 9y agoThanks for giving some context. I appreciate it. Again sorry if I offended anyone by me message/tone.
- bcantrill 9y agoI would ask that you check your tone a bit here and recognize that someone of significance to many in the HN community (if not to you) has died (and died far too young). I can assure you that there will be plenty of blog posts to come (Andy's life intersected many others), but in the meantime, appreciate this is meant to let those who knew him in the HN community know of his tragic passing more than to educate about who Andy was.
- gremlinsinc 9y agoI apologize for the tone, I have aspergers and can be a prick by accident, totally didn't mean it in negative, just was curious and felt a tweet wasn't that great a way to announce something like someone important's death.
- Teever 9y agoYou're not wrong here, that person is just lashing out because they're emotional. It's totally reasonable to ask why you should care about a particular strangers death in a world where 150,000 people die every single day.
- imbriaco 9y agoIt actually is unreasonable for you to ask that. It's also a pretty bad take to bring up the 150,000 people die every day statistic as if the fact that a single person who many people had a connection to dying is not of significance. If you truly don't care just move on. If you want to know more, it doesn't take a great deal of skill to use Twitter, GitHub, Google, and more to find out all that you want to know.
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- Teever 9y agoWhats unreasonable is using a public link sharing site like this as a online memorial website.
- gadders 9y agoI don't think you were being negative or a prick. I think the worst I could characterise your comment as is blunt.
- simonbarker87 9y agoYou're good on this one, the other person is reacting emotionally as others have said which, if they know the person is totally understandable and it's a good chance for us to all show some compassion toward them (and not down vote).
- kurthr 9y agohttps://github.com/argv0 https://github.com/argv0 He worked at Apple and like erlang... sadly, I know little more than this.
- graham-miln 9y agoAndy's CV/resume offers some insight into his career: https://github.com/argv0/resume/blob/master/andygross-resume.pdf https://github.com/argv0/resume/blob/master/andygross-resume...
- amyjess 9y agoHuh, small world. He worked for Mochi Media around the same time as three friends of mine... Mochi recruited them right after they graduated UTD, and they moved halfway across the country for it. Given how small Mochi was then, I bet they knew each other. Just goes to show you the tech world is a really tiny place.
- arthurcolle 9y agohe implemented webmachine and parts of riak iirc
- rozap 9y agocreator of riak and a part of erlang + many other communities
- gexla 9y agoMore info for those who don't know who he is. https://angel.co/argv0 https://angel.co/argv0
- dannylandau 9y agoLinkedin profile -- https://www.linkedin.com/in/andygross/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/andygross/
- Jaruzel 9y agoThank you. Bizarrely, according to Linkedin, Andy and I both have a friend in common!
- Jaruzel 9y agoThat wasn't a joke btw. I was merely observing the over-connectedness of Linkedin.
- warent 9y agoGraduated in 1999. Probably never would've guessed he had less than 20 years left. Another reminder that life can end at any moment and we must seize the day.
- densone 9y agoAndy was a very close friend and the best coworker that I’ve ever had. I recently did a personal reference for him and he was looking to work out here on the east coast. I’m crushed that I just found this out on HN through a friend. Andy was like a magnet. One of those people that you generally wanted to be around. In my eyes he was the perfect mixture of skill, hilarity, and crudeness. I tell stories almost every day of things we’ve done at work and out of work. We drank a lot of beer, did a lot of engineering, and pulled a lot of stunts. At the end of the day he proved to a lot of people you can engineer, sell, and be an insane rebel when it comes to the work environment. This is a life taken way too soon. I’ll miss you andy. -sean
- FrancesAGross 9y agoHi Sean, Thank you for these kind words. I'm Andy's youngest cousin, and I stumbled across this page while doing research for his memorial service this weekend. I was in my early teens when he moved to California, and I hadn't seen him for several years till this past Christmas. All you said and reading about all his accomplishments has shed some light on the person he was. Its nice to hear from one of his friends, and I will share it with the rest of the family. Thank you again. - Frances Gross
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- se7entime 9y ago"CTO and Co-founder at Opsee, NoSQL pioneer. Author of the Riak NoSQL DB, Riak Cloud Storage, Webmachine REST toolkit, 20 years distributed systems experience." source: https://angel.co/argv0 https://angel.co/argv0
- wyldfire 9y agoHow did he die?
- Introvertuous 9y agofrom morbid curiosity
- xyzplease 9y agosomeone had painted it blue
- kragen 9y agoWhen a 40ish hacker and high-pressure startup founder dies unexpectedly with no announced cause of death, the chance is about 80% that they committed suicide.
- jnwatson 9y agoThis comment is a bit insensitive given the context, but man that hits close to home.
- kragen 9y agoSending hugs. I hope you're okay.
- ksherlock 9y agoSome days you crush it, some days it crushes you.
- throwaway23444 9y agoI'm not sure it is quite right to jump to this conclusion. Heart disease and auto accident ('unintentional injury') loom high for probable causes of death for that age group. https://www.cdc.gov/injury/images/lc-charts/leading_causes_of_death_age_group_2015_1050w740h.gif https://www.cdc.gov/injury/images/lc-charts/leading_causes_o... That said, suicide is third highest on that list when you only look at things that could be sudden.
- kendallgclark 9y agoAndy was warm, generous, authentic, hilarious as fuck, and an absolute killer engineer. He will be badly missed.
- nerpderp83 9y agoWell fuck that.
- 2day 9y agoAndy Gross had amazing accomplishments, traveled the world, but suffered from depression as do most with crazy high IQ's. He passed away from an accidental overdose.