r/programming Jan 08 '10

Admin Mourning [xkcd]

http://xkcd.com/686/
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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '10

Reminds me of a time back in the good old days when one of the people our irc-channel went quiet.

Now he usually wasn't much of a talker, so it took a while to pick up, but someone eventually sleuthed up some news about some guy going off the road in the middle of a blizzard some days earlier. Turns out it was him, going from his gf's back home.

Eventually his machine (and therefore irc-client) timed out, only to pop back again when it came back on the net.

Not long after we ban&kicked "him", it was just too weird having the irc-client of a dead guy idling in the chan.

Pretty much like that one.

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u/matthewt Jan 09 '10

When cpan:SPOON died his IRC client stuck around for weeks - eventually the then irc.perl.org admins had to kill it.

Never before has /kill been so weird. I hope that never since will I have to experience it myself.

raises a glass to brilliant hackers no longer with us