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"... His death came from medical complications related to an accident in the lab, after he dropped a monitor on his foot." That's tragic, but come on... if you
by codecamper 6y ago
"... His death came from medical complications related to an accident in the lab, after he dropped a monitor on his foot."
That's tragic, but come on... if you were in decent health a frigging monitor on your foot isn't going to kill you.
In my short 47 years I've known a professor of CS to die at 52 while running. I've known a computer friend to die at 32 from colon cancer. Steve Jobs at 52 from pancreatic cancer.
The computer world is not that big, so there should not be so many of these outcomes.
Programmers seriously need to focus a bit on health. I've been studying how not to die for the past year, since my own father allowed his prostate cancer to go from lamb to lion. Maybe I'll write an ebook & call it "how not to die".