[HN Gopher] Luiz Andre Barroso has died ___________________________________________________________________ Luiz Andre Barroso has died Author : martyvis Score : 254 points Date : 2023-11-23 09:53 UTC (13 hours ago) (HTM) web link (spectrum.ieee.org) (TXT) w3m dump (spectrum.ieee.org) | dmwilcox wrote: | I loved Luiz, I worked for him in platforms (his datacenter | development department). He was truly one of the kindest people I | have ever met. I deeply miss our banter around the coffee machine | and am saddened the last time is past. | | We've lost another great pioneer and human in our tribe. Pour out | a beautiful coffee for Luiz | heresie-dabord wrote: | Let there be more Kindness... May one ask for an example of his | kindness, if you would share? | DannyBee wrote: | +10000. Genuinely one of the best humans i've met. | wyclif wrote: | The book he wrote about datacenters is something people | interested in the subject should read: | https://www.amazon.com/dp/303100633X/ | underdeserver wrote: | Discussed a couple of months ago, when it happened: | | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37606775 | rob74 wrote: | It's strange for an obituary to be two months late... | mediumsmart wrote: | it says in the september article from wired establishing the | cause of death may take weeks, is it mentioned somewhere now? | stef25 wrote: | In the article: | | > He died unexpectedly of natural causes | dgrr19 wrote: | Does it have anything to do with recent pandemic events? | mediumsmart wrote: | yes, the ones that will take weeks to establish. are the | results mentioned somewhere now? | mathgeek wrote: | This isn't one obituary. It's a list of members who died, | with his name being the first listed. | ale42 wrote: | The article tags say it's one, though... | remus wrote: | Outside of major public figures it's not that unusual. | Writing an obit. takes time, especially for lesser known | figures where you may need to contact friends and family (who | may be grieving) for information about the person's life. | detourdog wrote: | ieee writing an obituary is really a different context than | the Daily Beagle running obituary. | asveikau wrote: | Unless they publish infrequently. | Oras wrote: | The heroes we don't usually hear about. RIP. | bo-tao wrote: | Seems too young, may he rest in peace | croes wrote: | Typo in the article title | | >Pioneer of Google's Data Centers Dies at 58 | | He died at 59 | masfuerte wrote: | TFA contains both ages! | | "Senior member, 59; died 16 September" | matheusmoreira wrote: | Rest in peace. | vincnetas wrote: | ... died 16 September. | | Should the title be updated? | srvmshr wrote: | I came to know when Jeff Dean tweeted about it in September [1]. | Truly a great loss. | | [1]. https://twitter.com/JeffDean/status/1705042899677884630 | vkaku wrote: | R.I.P. | meiraleal wrote: | Looks like he was really loved. A few months ago when it happened | there were many posts talking about him (which regretfully as a | Brazilian I didn't know). I wish he had got this much attention | when he was still alive. | DannyBee wrote: | He was definitely loved. He wouldn't have wanted the attention. | He just enjoyed living his life as him. In that sense, the | attention is more for the rest of us than him. | sweet-music wrote: | This already happened in circ Sept 2023. Great Googler. He kept | the culture alive. May he rest in peace. | wyclif wrote: | It would be interesting if you could talk about the ways he | "kept the culture alive"; I think a lot of people would be | interested in reading about that. | inoffensivename wrote: | He was the only senior manager I ever had who would walk the | halls and talk to engineers he bumped into. He would be genuinely | curious about what we were doing. | | Once we were admiring a bird perched in a tree outside the | window, and he came over to tell us all about it, we all felt his | genuine enthusiasm. | | He was a lovely person and, even though I didn't work directly | for him, I am sad that he is gone. | dmoy wrote: | He had some crazy good bird photographs with really expensive | camera equipment. Dude was definitely enthusiastic about | wildlife photography | 29athrowaway wrote: | He was into rainforest conservation and stuff, and was from | Brazil. | DannyBee wrote: | Yes. He was a finalist for various serious photography | contests - we got to talking about it because my friend won | one with a famous picture that ended up on the cover of | national geographic (polar bear and cub on ice in the middle | of nowhere). | | His other passion was guitar. | dekhn wrote: | and brazillian soccer. | | He had rigged up a whole bunch of night cameras at his | house and shared absolutely amazing pictures of wild cats. | https://www.facebook.com/LosAltosTownCrier/posts/1015633028 | 9... and lots more: https://www.barroso.org/wildlife.html | | absolutely one of my favorite people to hang out with when | I worked at Google. He was also the promoter of 'roofshots' | which was about the nicest way I've seen somebody criticize | Larry Page's unrealistic "moonshots": | | """Don't get me wrong. I want flying drones that can bring | me fresh produce. I'm excited about contact lenses that | measure blood sugar. And I look forward to the day that | self-driving cars are on the road everywhere. These | initiatives are examples of some visionary programs being | pursued by Google and Alphabet teams, collectively referred | to as moonshots -- disruptive, 10X leaps in technology. But | there has been a growing perception that moonshots are the | primary model for radical innovation at Google, and chiefly | responsible for our greatest product and technical | achievements. What I have seen during my 15 years at Google | does not match that perception. I contend that the bulk of | our successes have been the result of the methodical, | relentless, and persistent pursuit of 1.3-2X opportunities | -- what I have come to call "roofshots".""" Luis Andre | Barroso -- Google fellow and VP of engineering | lokar wrote: | The roofshot manifesto was great, I wish they would | publish it | dekhn wrote: | it used to be on Google's site but the URL redirects now | :( | | Anyway, https://web.archive.org/web/20230922060904/https: | //rework.wi... | sweet-music wrote: | FYI old news. But he was so humble and had gratitude, this was | exemplified in how he still kept the Google culture alive by | being transparent in TGIFs. | | May his soul rest in peace. | mupuff1234 wrote: | Do we know what happened? 59 is a young age. | malkosta wrote: | He is from the same university where Lua was invented and still | maintained nowadays. This Brazilian university has quite a | history of awesome achievements specially in graphics | computing... | nick0garvey wrote: | His book "The Datacenter as a Computer: An Introduction to the | Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines" was immensely valuable to me | as I moved into datacenter management as a new-grad. RIP. | | https://research.google/pubs/pub41606/ ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-11-23 23:00 UTC)