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Pardon my Ignorance, but who is Andy Gross?

tty7 9y ago
The guy who died
gremlinsinc 9y ago
An 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 ago
  Tweets 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 ago
    Thanks for giving some context. I appreciate it. Again sorry if I offended anyone by me message/tone.
- bcantrill 9y ago
  I 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 ago
    I 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 ago
      You'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 ago
        It 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 ago
        Whats unreasonable is using a public link sharing site like this as a online memorial website.
    - gadders 9y ago
      I don't think you were being negative or a prick. I think the worst I could characterise your comment as is blunt.
    - simonbarker87 9y ago
      You'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 ago
https://github.com/argv0 https://github.com/argv0 He worked at Apple and like erlang... sadly, I know little more than this.
- graham-miln 9y ago
  Andy'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 ago
    Huh, 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 ago
he implemented webmachine and parts of riak iirc
rozap 9y ago
creator of riak and a part of erlang + many other communities

tty7 9y ago

The guy who died

An 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 ago
Tweets 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 ago
  Thanks for giving some context. I appreciate it. Again sorry if I offended anyone by me message/tone.
bcantrill 9y ago
I 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 ago
  I 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 ago
    You'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 ago
      It 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.
      - deleted 9y ago
        [deleted]
      - Teever 9y ago
        Whats unreasonable is using a public link sharing site like this as a online memorial website.
  - gadders 9y ago
    I don't think you were being negative or a prick. I think the worst I could characterise your comment as is blunt.
  - simonbarker87 9y ago
    You'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 ago

https://github.com/argv0 https://github.com/argv0 He worked at Apple and like erlang... sadly, I know little more than this.

graham-miln 9y ago
Andy'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 ago
  Huh, 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 ago

he implemented webmachine and parts of riak iirc

rozap 9y ago

creator of riak and a part of erlang + many other communities