The Internet genius behind the popular Web site Reddit.com committed suicide at his Brooklyn home today, police sources and friends said.Cops discovered Aaron Swartz unconscious at 9:30 a.m. and are now investigating whether he hanged himself, law enforcement sources said.Swartz helped create Reddit and drafted an early version of the RSS format, a “Web feed” that syndicates popular headlines.Friends yesterday called him a prolific intellectual — and a computer geek legend — who had long suffered from depression.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/reddit_co_founder_commits_suicide_AZPHGFSHzBRrOHbx2yGM9O
It is too bad that he could not have healed himself from his torments. However now that he is gone we must continue on his work.
I had been considering for a awhile whether to submit links to reddit, and I am going to make sure to do it now!
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