won't be drinking an sugared-water today. Thanks, Steve.
Steve Jobs has passed away.
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#252Cancer sucks. If you care to learn more about the disease and the search for a cure, check out "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer" by Siddhartha Mukherjee. Fascinating, scary and sobering. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004Q66B5C
And even having billions of dollars and access to any medicine and any doctor can't save you. Fuck cancer.
I've become convinced that cancer is among the elite series of diseases that are, in many cases, just how people die, meaning that perhaps in many instances the medical term for "dying" is "cancer". I think it is naive to ever think we'll have a general cure, especially since "cancer" covers such a broad range of specific issues.
I understand that people die in other ways too, of course, but I think cancer is a common agent that is just how dying works. It's like getting gray hairs -- you can do things to try and stop or cover it up (and some people will get old without much graying), people can fantasize about a fountain of youth that will keep your body at age 21 forever, but the reality is that graying is just part of aging and nothing is going to change that despite any realistic effort that humans can put in. Cancer is part of dying for many, many people. It's not going to go away despite our best efforts to mitigate its effects or eradicate it entirely.
I once read the supposed confession of a medical research assistant that "cancer" as a general thing is not curable but they keep the myth alive because "cure cancer" makes a really decent slogan.
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#253"I want to put a ding in the universe." Perhaps his biggest ding was inspiring so many of us to pursue our own dings. R.I.P.
So true.
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#254I am sad. Sad for Steve, sad for Steve's family, sad for how he could have changed the world if he lived another 50 years and also sad, selfishly maybe, that I will never have the opportunity to meet him. RIP Steve, you inspired us and we loved you for it.
This does mimic a conversation I've just had at our startup. We won't have the privilege of seeing what was he really like.
Congratulations to all of those who had that opportunity. The rest of us will have to make do with a mere shadow of his personality.
But what a remarkable shadow it is.
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#255Earlier quoted context omitted.
Devastated. Forget hn it crashed twitter and slowed down Google plus. Think about donating 10% of your next hardware purchase to charity, possibly pancreatic cancer research. Think about what Steve Jobs has done for your startup (both technology wise and inspiration wise)
Do you know where and how to donate for cancer research?
Randy Pausch, another tremendous person who died too young of pancreatic cancer, had some recommendations:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/
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#256Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're right, Im sorry. I thought that refs in the query string were used for affiliate links. Two questions - what DO affiliate links look like, or how can I tell? Also, can I delete that comment or edit it?
You have a window to edit or delete the comment before it is locked in. To be fair, I also thought the "ref" portion of the URL might be an affiliate link, but decided to assume the best case scenario. Not that we need proof that this book is going to sell like crazy, but the current Amazon rankings for it are: Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2 in Books #1 in Books > Business & Investing > Industries & Professions > High-…
What's more interesting than that is the rise:
21,300% in the last 24 hours. As predicted :)
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#257Every single link at HN frontpage is about Jobs passage atm. It may looks obvious, but look at the importance of the guy between hackers. RIP.
I saw the sad news on another site and came here for confirmation: saw every single story was about Steve Jobs, and then reflected how appropriate it was. There's few people of the stature of Steve Jobs.
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#258Earlier quoted context omitted.
Steve's Most Enduring Legacy: inspiring generations of entrepreneurs, artists, etc. to "think different". Right now, theres someone working on his own startup in their garage because he was inspired by Steve Jobs.
Me. Right this moment, I'm in my parents house, where our little startup has moved (temporarily!) to create our MVP. When I was a kid, my mother went back to college to finish the degree she'd abandoned when she got married. She decided to study computer science. This was my first exposure to boolean algebra, and made me want a computer. The Apple II was relatively new and visicalc was driving sales of it, and I want…
>> How did he spend the last 8 years of his life? Enjoying himself? No. He drove himself and Apple to build the next generation of the personal computer.
Make no mistake: he loved every minute of it.
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#259As engineers and logicians, we almost always ask, how? But this is one of the times that I want to ask, why? :'(
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#260Finally shakespeare has his answer, here came a man greater than Ceaser, when comes another Steve Jobs?
RIP Steve, you're memory will never die.