[HN Gopher] Gordon Mah Ung has died
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       Gordon Mah Ung has died
        
       Author : EA-3167
       Score  : 145 points
       Date   : 2024-12-24 22:55 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.pcworld.com)
        
       | ChumpGPT wrote:
       | This is unfortunate.
       | 
       | Was he the one who took over from the hardware guy who died
       | during the Boot magazine era and then went on to Maximum PC?
        
         | EA-3167 wrote:
         | That's right.
         | 
         | > Gordon studied journalism at San Francisco State University
         | and then worked as a police reporter for the Contra Costa Times
         | in the late 1990s. In 1997, he joined Computerworld (a PCWorld
         | sister publication) before I recruited him to join boot
         | magazine (later re-launched as Maximum PC), where he would
         | ultimately lead hardware coverage for 16 years.
        
       | iFred wrote:
       | Learned about this last night and needless to say it was a gut
       | punch. There is a whole generation of us that have Gordon to
       | thank for our monthly pilgrimage to the magazine section looking
       | for the latest edition of Maximum PC. Once a year we were treated
       | to a buffet of hardware with amazingly high specs and prices to
       | match with these Dream Machines later serving as mental
       | checkpoints of the eras fastest personal compute. The. There was
       | the effort that Gordon put into consumer advocacy in his columns,
       | bad parts, badder corporate practices, and he was there fighting
       | for us on the printed page.
       | 
       | Rest in peace Gordon.
        
       | mastax wrote:
       | I grew up on Gordon's rant of the week on the Maximum PC podcast.
       | I'll miss him.
        
         | theandrewbailey wrote:
         | I probably have a folder full of those clips somewhere. Epic
         | and hilarious.
         | 
         | RIP Gordon.
        
       | MrGilbert wrote:
       | Steve from GamersNexus paid tribute to Gordon Mah Ung in a very
       | touching remembrance video: https://youtu.be/Ty6hDR2UskM
        
         | parker-3461 wrote:
         | Thanks for mentioning this here, I learnt a lot more about
         | Gordon from the video there, and I think we all have something
         | to thank Gordon for - both directly and indirectly.
        
         | newsclues wrote:
         | Ian did a video too https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f8SHbh2ofqk
        
       | plasticbugs wrote:
       | So saddened by this news. I worked with Gordon. He had a
       | wonderful sense of humor. Was a true believer, die hard
       | technologist, uncompromising, witty and honest. Will be having a
       | drink here in his honor shortly.
        
       | blindriver wrote:
       | Why are so many people dying of pancreatic cancer? What is going
       | on with this, it's terrifying that this disease is on the rise
       | but it can't be detected before it's too late
        
         | BirAdam wrote:
         | With cancer, it's exceedingly difficult to narrow down a cause
         | unless someone was a smoker or was otherwise exposed to a very
         | potent carcinogen or to abnormal amounts of radiation. Every
         | day, humans are exposed to a variety of chemicals, metals,
         | pollutants, and so on. For things that are suddenly increasing,
         | we'd need hard and unbiased information about every common
         | product, all nearby sources of pollution, everything in a
         | persons normal diet, and so on. It isn't easy.
        
           | dangus wrote:
           | And that's not even taking into account non-exposure sources
           | of cancer.
        
         | newsclues wrote:
         | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38063927/
        
           | pupppet wrote:
           | Yikes
        
       | stygiansonic wrote:
       | Sorry to hear this
       | 
       | A lot of my teenage years were spent building and playing with
       | PCs and a lot of the knowledge and interest came from reading
       | each and every issue of boot and maximum pc
        
       | disillusioned wrote:
       | I was a hardcore MaximumPC subscriber for... I don't know,
       | basically 20 years? I was a PC hobbiest basically from 4th grade
       | onward, and MaximumPC was my bible. It helped me decide between
       | the RivaTNT and the 3Dfx Voodoo. It got me obsessed with the
       | Cambridge Soundworks 5.1 sound system that I owned for a decade.
       | It was my touchstone for all things PC building and gaming, and
       | it was fundamentally responsible for so much of my early
       | PC/hacking/tinkering development, and I just remember seeing
       | Gordon Mah Ung's bylines on _so. very. much._ of the content that
       | I consumed and loved from MaximumPC over those years.
       | 
       | It's hard to overstate how important his contributions were to
       | someone anonymous like me during those formative years, but they
       | were. RIP, Gordon. Damn.
        
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