Roland Piquepaille Dies 288
overheardinpdx writes "I'm sad to report that longtime HPC technology pundit Roland Piquepaille (rpiquepa) died this past Tuesday. Many of you may know of him through his blog, his submissions to Slashdot, and his many years of software visualization work at SGI and Cray Research. I worked with Roland 20 years ago at Cray, where we both wrote tech stories for the company newsletter. With his focus on how new technologies modify our way of life, Roland was really doing Slashdot-type reporting before there was a World Wide Web. Rest in peace, Roland. You will be missed." The notice of Roland's passing was posted on the Cray Research alumni group on Linked-In by Matthias Fouquet-Lapar. There will be a ceremony on Monday Jan. 12, at 10:30 am Paris time, at Père Lachaise.
No Need for Insult (Score:5, Funny)
Roland was really doing Slashdot-type reporting before there was a World Wide Web.
Now, Now... there's no need to insult the guy at this point.
Hmmm (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Rest in peace (Score:4, Funny)
Mere death won't stop him from posting
Well, this proves... (Score:2, Funny)
Apparently its not just his blog links that resulted in a DEAD END.
Too soon?
Re:In memoriam (Score:2, Funny)
Prophetic, nothin'! I am SOOOO tagging this article 'diekdawsondie'!
(It's a joke. It's funny. Laugh.)
Re:Rest in Peace, rpiquepa (Score:5, Funny)
I don't know about that, but on Roland's approach St. Peter was heard to say "oh no, it's Roland".
Re:No Need for Insult (Score:5, Funny)
Its pretty sad I came here just to post that exact joke. Ronald's passing has opened my eyes on how unoriginal I am. Thank you sir, that is the greatest gift of all.
Re:Know your limits (Score:5, Funny)
In honor of him, we should flood news sites with releases for this subject that redirect readers to a blog.
Jon Katz (Score:5, Funny)
Is breathing a sigh of relief that he escaped Slashdot alive.
Re:Rest in Peace, rpiquepa (Score:0, Funny)
If you want to get technical, Hitler was one of 'Us' too.
And I'll miss Roland less.
Re:What happens to... (Score:3, Funny)
>The actual Roland's account, as mentioned in the story, was "rpiquepa".
You expect /.ers to RTFA?
You must be new here.
In a truly ironic twist of fate... (Score:2, Funny)
All the advertising I usually see on a /. story is coming up with a "404 - Not Found".
RIP, Roland.
Re:In memoriam (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Oi. (Score:5, Funny)
Which means that if you do something awesome, you should never try do anything else, ever.
Re:Rest in Peace, rpiquepa (Score:5, Funny)
No, actually St. Peter has no idea that Roland is coming. He was using an extension to block everything related to him.
Re:No Need for Insult (Score:5, Funny)
Who the fuck is Ronald?
Re:Wait a second (Score:5, Funny)
Ok now THAT makes me doubt this is real.
Re:Rest in peace (Score:5, Funny)
When you see death walking up the path to your door, start typing fast.
Re:Rest in Peace, rpiquepa (Score:3, Funny)
tagged ohnoitwasroland
Truly (Score:5, Funny)
He'll be missed.
But honestly, his death should have been reported via a link to his blog that would THEN link to the page discussing his death.
Only a fitting tribute.
Re:Rest in peace (Score:5, Funny)
You got that right!
Oh no it's Roland (Score:2, Funny)
Fetch the holy water and call an exorcist! This time, he's going to stay dead.
Re:Wait a second (Score:5, Funny)
Kdawson made the phone calls to confirm this before posting it.
What is netcrafts phone number?
It must be true... (Score:4, Funny)
I checked to see who submitted and it wasn't Roland. I would think that this being Slashdot he would have set up a dead-man-switch to make that submission himself.
It would be only fitting.
RIP Roland.
Re:Yeah... bout that UID. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Know your limits (Score:2, Funny)
Even so, his stories were far better than anything submitted by Twitter The Troll. Twitter The Troll repeated stories such as "Teh M$ sux0rs"
Granted, but simply being better than Twitter is no claim to fame. That's like saying "more nutritious than sand".
Re:And I _still_ don't know... (Score:2, Funny)
"Oe-Noe-itz-roe-land"
Re:Rest in Peace, rpiquepa (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Slashdot (Score:5, Funny)
Moral bankruptcy was so 2008 - fiscal bankruptcy is all the rage in 2009!
Re:A taste of Slashdot (Score:5, Funny)
On slashdot?
I'd actually be very pleased if my death made it to the front page.
Re:A taste of Slashdot (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Rest in peace (Score:5, Funny)
I checked his grave, and there was just a link to a different grave with someone else's corpse.
Re:A taste of Slashdot (Score:5, Funny)