"Bill Zeller was a talented programmer whose work we've featured on Lifehacker. He took his own life on Sunday and left an explanation that I think it's important you read. Zeller was a victim of sexual and psychological abuse. It's clear from his writing that the abuse left him unable to interface with the world in any way that didn't leave him feeling he was too sullied to have the same experiences that he thought others had. He had a self-described "darkness", which despite his prostration it's clear he handled more ably than perhaps he ever realized. Programming was a solace, but only temporarily. Zeller never felt he could escape the things that had happened to him because he carried his torment with him everywhere." - Tudor Bosman from Bookmarklet

Bill Zeller was a Princeton Ph.D student in Computer Science (in Ed Felten's group: http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog...). He was also known as "null terminated" on Metafilter: http://metatalk.metafilter.com/20205.... RIP. - Tudor Bosman

heartbreaking. - Andrew C (✓)

Oh my god. - Paul Buchheit