A Chinese programmer died in hospital after fainting while working at home late last year.Gao Guanghui (transliterated), 32, allegedly died of cardiac arrest, leading his family to believe that he died from overwork.According to Chinese media, he was promoted to department manager recently and had consistently been working long hours prior to his death.In addition to programming tasks, he was...
A programmer died at the place I last worked. I had worked with him and I don’t think it was overwork but he was the type who naturally worked on the software so much because he genuinely enjoyed programming. After he died some of the management when talking about him went into how he worked so hard and the best way to honor him was work harder. At least it sounded that way to me. It ws creepy.