Noticed the same thing and started adding to a small collection of tributes from various sites: http://gim.ie/bfmX
Hacker News Front Page Snapshot from Last Night
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#62This was the first time I have seen the entire front page consisting of articles on one topic. The snapshot is from 11pm PDT, and it is from a site that archives the Hacker News front page.
I was shocked last night when I counted 27 articles about Steve Jobs and three about other stuff.
I saw 30/30. My first thought was that it's a special filter for the occasion. Amazing.
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#64This is good to see - I don't think any one person has had more influence on the way we use computers/technology than Steve did. It felt good to know that someone with his vision also had the power to create and guide new technologies and inovations within many industries. Now that singular force is gone. Hopefully Apple, or the other major players are able to continue to innovate and not just add better specs and mo…
> I don't think any one person has had more influence on the way we use computers/technology than Steve did. Just wondering, if I don't use macs, smartphones and tablets, do I still owe it to him for the way I use computers/technology?
Yes. Any major operating system or computing device from the last decade or so (give or take a few decades) has been in stiff competition with the operating systems and computing devices that Apple produced under Steve Jobs, and they have all been strongly influenced by (modeled after?) those Apple products with which they competed. Even something as basic as his insistence that things should be easy to use forced everyone else to improve their products' usability, even change the way they think about designing software in order to make usability a priority, in order to catch up.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I don't think any one person has had more influence on the way we use computers/technology than Steve did. Just wondering, if I don't use macs, smartphones and tablets, do I still owe it to him for the way I use computers/technology?
Yes. Any major operating system or computing device from the last decade or so (give or take a few decades) has been in stiff competition with the operating systems and computing devices that Apple produced under Steve Jobs, and they have all been strongly influenced by (modeled after?) those Apple products with which they competed. Even something as basic as his insistence that things should be easy to use forced ev…
How do you know?
EDIT: oh, I really don't know about that. I spend my days using GNU/Linux, Emacs, C/C++ (GCC) and related free libraries/tools. Even my window manager is emacs-user friendly. If anybody, the most influential person wrt my computing is Richard Stallman.
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#66If any man deserved this, Steve Jobs most certainly did.
Getting cancer? I concur
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Wow, lost a lot of karma with this. Anyone cares to explain downvotes? Most links about SJ yesterday did not follow HN guidelines about intellectual curiosity, in my understanding, please clarify if I'm wrong.
1. The standards of what makes it to the front page are basically `whatever this, a community of mostly intellectuals and entrepreneurs, likes at any given time'. The admins' role is just to step in when things get abusive. 2. Now is not the time for these meta-discussions. 3. You were off-topic. (So am I, admittedly.)
This whole thread/story is a meta-discussion. Otherwise, I completely agree.
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And patrickthomas went from 0 to 3335 karma in a single post.
Pretty cool, 724 days, no comments, one submission, 3346 karma. Probably not something work trying to avoid in a web based reputation system.
Doesn't it show how useless global karma is? Besides, I never voted someone down, I just ignore or vote up ..
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes. Any major operating system or computing device from the last decade or so (give or take a few decades) has been in stiff competition with the operating systems and computing devices that Apple produced under Steve Jobs, and they have all been strongly influenced by (modeled after?) those Apple products with which they competed. Even something as basic as his insistence that things should be easy to use forced ev…
How do you know? EDIT: oh, I really don't know about that. I spend my days using GNU/Linux, Emacs, C/C++ (GCC) and related free libraries/tools. Even my window manager is emacs-user friendly. If anybody, the most influential person wrt my computing is Richard Stallman.
It trickles down, particularly when it comes to someone as influential as Steve Jobs. You may not have used any of his products directly, but as shown by this snapshot, he has influenced an entire generation of great number of people, going beyond technology.
Some of these people take bits and pieces of the design principles and apply it to their work. Some of them take lessons shared by Mr. Jobs in his speeches or interviews because they look up to him, and apply those in their work. Mr. Page and Mr. Brin says they looked up to Jobs as model. Windows improved by paying attention to what Mac comes up with. Steve Jobs helped propel the industry forward, so even if you never used any of his products directly, it's a good bet you still benefited from his innovations.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wow, lost a lot of karma with this. Anyone cares to explain downvotes? Most links about SJ yesterday did not follow HN guidelines about intellectual curiosity, in my understanding, please clarify if I'm wrong.
1. The standards of what makes it to the front page are basically `whatever this, a community of mostly intellectuals and entrepreneurs, likes at any given time'. The admins' role is just to step in when things get abusive. 2. Now is not the time for these meta-discussions. 3. You were off-topic. (So am I, admittedly.)
Can you point me to the guideline you are talking about in 1)?