Atta Elayyan, Developer of MetroTube and LazyWorm Apps, Killed in Christchurch

Re:Atta Elayyan, Developer of MetroTube and LazyWorm Apps, K... by spronkey on Monday March 18, 2019 @11:28PM (#19427847)

Good words. I attended university with Atta many years ago and we remained (distant) friends since. He was a legend back then as a CS:S player and a BMW enthusiast, and pretty good at our regular "Quake Breaks" as well.

His company LWA Solutions, that was born out of LazyWorm Apps, did some work for the company I work for. Atta in particular was a driving force behind some of their really cool innovations - in VR. He was one of the first people I knew of who was using a tablet as a mock UI sketchbook, and producing some really cool work despite the awful capacitive touch pens of the time.

It's so difficult to reconcile his murder. He was such a genuine guy with so much ahead of him, and I'm so sorry for his family.

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Re:Atta Elayyan, Developer of MetroTube and LazyWorm Apps, K... by twistedlogicx on Monday March 18, 2019 @11:36PM (#19427881)

I appreciate these comments from the people who knew him more than anything else. Thank you for your words and I'm so sorry for your loss.

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Re:Atta Elayyan, Developer of MetroTube and LazyWorm Apps, K... by bracobama on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @03:12AM (#19428722)

Reconcile, despite its economic association, can also mean to 'come to terms with' something, i.e. to accept that this man has passed away.

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