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posted by martyb on Thursday February 23 2017, @10:19AM   Printer-friendly
from the IRL-there-is-no-respawn dept.

A man in Russia has been convicted of murder and sentenced to nine and a half years in prison for repeatedly stabbing his friend to death after a heated argument over AMD and Nvidia graphics card coolers.

[...] two Russian friends started arguing over which Graphics processor is better, nVida[sic] or AMD, and one of them ended up being killed in the most gruesome manner.

Aleksander Trofimov, 37, hacked his friend to death [in Russian] with a knife, after hitting him twice in the head. His friend, Evgeny Lylin, died instantly as a result. The murderer was so offended at the victim, he stabbed his dead body 11 times after a while.

The incident took place in the quite[sic] town of Saransk, Russia. The friends used to work together as colleagues a few years ago, and kept in touch ever since. Aleksander invited his friend for a few drinks, and both of them got drunk.

This led to the discussion about which cooler of a GPU is better [sic], nVidia or AMD. The discussion soon took a turn for the worst and Aleksander ended up murdering his friend for claiming that AMD was better.

Although the incident took place over an[sic] year ago, Aleksander got convicted and sentenced only recently. He was handed a nine and a half year prison sentence for the crime.

Additional coverage, in Russian, at http://by24.org/2017/02/17/russian_programmer_killed_and_burned_collegue_because_of_nvidia_features/.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 24 2017, @03:17AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 24 2017, @03:17AM (#471002)

    Regarding indentation of course tabs are better. Tabs are a good fit for indentation ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_stop [wikipedia.org] ).

    If you use tabs different other people aren't forced to accept 1 indentation = X spaces and can pick whatever they prefer. If they want narrower/wider indentation than other people it doesn't affect the code - there are no whitespace changes.

    Posted anonymously to avoid death or injury.

  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday February 24 2017, @03:33PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 24 2017, @03:33PM (#471132) Journal

    I happen to agree. Obviously some people do not.

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