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Reddit co-founder commits suicide
by nevada Sat Jan 12, 2013 2:46 pm
He was just 26!
http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/12/us/new-york-reddit-founder-suicide/index.html
New York (CNN) -- Aaron Swartz, the Internet political activist who co-wrote the initial specification for RSS, has committed suicide, a relative told CNN Saturday. He was 26.
"Great minds carry heavy burdens," wrote one user on Reddit, a popular social media website that Swartz helped develop and popularize following a merger in 2006.
Swartz also co-founded Demand Progress, a political action group that campaigns against Internet censorship.
A young prodigy, his passion pushed limits and landed him in legal troubles in recent years.
In 2011, he was arrested in Boston for alleged computer fraud and illegally obtaining documents from protected computers. He was later indicted from an incident in which he allegedly stole millions of online documents from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He pleaded not guilty in September, according to MIT's "The Tech" newspaper.
Two years earlier, the FBI investigated him after he released millions of U.S. federal court documents online. No charges were filed in that case.
Swartz, who completed a fellowship at Harvard's Ethics Center Lab on Institutional Corruption, frequently blogged about his life, success and personal struggles. In some instances, he wrote about death.
"There is a moment, immediately before life becomes no longer worth living, when the world appears to slow down and all its myriad details suddenly become brightly, achingly apparent," he wrote in a 2007 post entitled "A Moment Before Dying."
http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/12/us/new-york-reddit-founder-suicide/index.html
New York (CNN) -- Aaron Swartz, the Internet political activist who co-wrote the initial specification for RSS, has committed suicide, a relative told CNN Saturday. He was 26.
"Great minds carry heavy burdens," wrote one user on Reddit, a popular social media website that Swartz helped develop and popularize following a merger in 2006.
Swartz also co-founded Demand Progress, a political action group that campaigns against Internet censorship.
A young prodigy, his passion pushed limits and landed him in legal troubles in recent years.
In 2011, he was arrested in Boston for alleged computer fraud and illegally obtaining documents from protected computers. He was later indicted from an incident in which he allegedly stole millions of online documents from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He pleaded not guilty in September, according to MIT's "The Tech" newspaper.
Two years earlier, the FBI investigated him after he released millions of U.S. federal court documents online. No charges were filed in that case.
Swartz, who completed a fellowship at Harvard's Ethics Center Lab on Institutional Corruption, frequently blogged about his life, success and personal struggles. In some instances, he wrote about death.
"There is a moment, immediately before life becomes no longer worth living, when the world appears to slow down and all its myriad details suddenly become brightly, achingly apparent," he wrote in a 2007 post entitled "A Moment Before Dying."
nevada- Posts : 1831
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Re: Reddit co-founder commits suicide
by Rishi Sat Jan 12, 2013 4:21 pm
The guy was not just depressive. He was in fact manic depressive. I guess he must have written the RSS specifications while he was in his manic state.
It is very difficult to be a 'normal' person.
It is very difficult to be a 'normal' person.
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Re: Reddit co-founder commits suicide
by Rishi Sat Jan 12, 2013 4:34 pm
Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. I think a lot of what people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.
This kid Schwartz got it right.
https://aaronsw.jottit.com/howtoget
This kid Schwartz got it right.
https://aaronsw.jottit.com/howtoget
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Re: Reddit co-founder commits suicide
by Idéfix Sat Jan 12, 2013 7:57 pm
I agree about intelligence. I haven't run into a curious person who isn't intelligent.Rishi wrote:Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. I think a lot of what people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.
This kid Schwartz got it right.
https://aaronsw.jottit.com/howtoget
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Re: Reddit co-founder commits suicide
by pravalika nanda Sat Jan 12, 2013 10:27 pm
Rishi wrote:Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. I think a lot of what people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.
This kid Schwartz got it right.
https://aaronsw.jottit.com/howtoget
** that was very useful, rishi. i looked him up on youtube and there is talk in which he gives a simple history of how several people worked to prevent internet censorship and protect freedom of speech. such a remarkable person but unfortunately i did not know that name until today.
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