Sad News for the Opscode Community

http://www.opscode.com/blog/2013/12/05/sad-news-for-the-opscode-community/

by benatkin • 13 years ago

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mathattack• 13 years ago

Indeed it's sad. He was relatively young too!

tptacek• 13 years ago

Seriously fuck cancer.

jroseattle2• 13 years ago

I agree with the sentiment, maybe one day we can hope to "hack" cancer. Once we can deconstruct something, we can control it, destroy it, whatever.

RIP Mitch Hill. Seattle, represent.

brazzy2• 13 years ago

Unlikely, because cancer is not one thing but many. Each kind of cancer behaves differently, is susceptible to different treatments. And I once read an article about a genetic analysis that found dozens of completely different strains of cells in a single tumor.

dspillett• 13 years ago

maybe one day we can hope to "hack" cancer

Not in the way you are meaning, but we already have.

As well as virus call and bacteria we have tested using altered cancer cells as a delivery mechanism for medication (particularly against other cancer cells). I'm pretty sure there have been no human trials of anything like this yet though.

midas007• 13 years ago

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nphase• 13 years ago

Fuck Cancer.

dredmorbius• 13 years ago

Context: Mitch Hill, former Opscode CEO, died of cancer.

benatkin• 13 years ago

I'm at a loss of words. RIP.

DigitalSea• 13 years ago

Mitch Hill went way too soon, he was too young to die. Live in the moment people, you never know when your life could be cut short by cancer. My condolences to Mitch's family, friends and others close to him who will undoubtedly be affected as a result of his death.

I hope I get to live to see a period in time when most forms of cancer are cured and people aren't taken away from us so early.

queryly• 13 years ago

I spoke with him when I was at Avanade (he was the CEO) over a decade ago and just got connected with him on LinkedIn last year. My condolences to his family.

Sad News for the Opscode Community

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