Unless you plug into the matrix, you'll end up living your life eventually if you have all the time in the universe to do it.
Fuck cancer.
Quite fittingly, the Yandex translation is superior to the Google translate version:
http://translate.yandex.net/tr-url/en+ru.en/clubs.ya.ru/comp...
1: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57442907-71/russias-zucker...
Google: "But he left behind a whole new generation of programmers, an entire school. And it sets the level of ethical standards for all of us." vs Yandex: "But he left behind a whole new generation of programmers, a whole school. And its ethical standards specified the level of all of us."
Google: "Tonight, he was gone." vs Yandex "Tonight he was not."
And RIP Ilya. Many people who knew him said he was a very good person. He didn't spoke in public often, did his work, supported charity and also had an active political stance. What a loss.
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Ilya was very vocal about his contempt for falsifications in Russian elections. He went to protests and helped develop an app for election observers. This app helped volunteers submit proofs of violations during the elections.
He adopted several children and hated the recent law forbidding child adoption by USA citizens.
He will be missed by many.
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Edit 1: Rephrased the first sentence per suggestion in reply
Edit 2: Added recent info about coma
Go out there and live the day, hug your loved ones, enjoy the sun, work hard, don't think about taking over the world and being the next Steve Jobs, stay humble, you're given one life - go out there and make life proud that you are a part of it.
Memento mori
Besides being a great CTO, he kept helping orphaned children [1] and taught juggling (right at Yandex office).
[1] These children: http://mariaschildren.ru/content/view/141/96/
Due to entirely unrelated political forces, the US is banned from adopting them for now, with no change in sight. There are many children throughout the world dreaming of having parents some day.
I suggest to all, when you make your hacker fortune, buy one fewer of your favorite cars and adopt an orphan if you have a heart for children.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/25/yandex-founder-idU...
http://company.yandex.com/press_center/press_releases/2013/2...
more here http://iseg.yandex.ru/
(use google translate or http://translate.yandex.ru/ )
It's not too late because "time of death" was just yesterday after several days coma.
http://www.nasdaq.com/press-release/yandex-announces-death-o...
For those not fammiliar with Yandex check out the interview we did with the other founder, Arkady Voloz, who tells the story of Yandex: http://blip.tv/vincent-everts/ceo-arkady-voloz-tells-the-sto...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/25/yandex-founder-idU...
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/yandex-co-founder-chief-techno...
RIP mate.
