What is with the SJ worship on reddit/HN? Apple continues to make overpriced hardware (compare to T and W series thinkpads xD) which almost always sacrifices form for function. Want to put an esata/fibre/ port on your laptop? - only one MBP allows it. OS X is a toy os for people who don't want to run windows (excell/MSVS) or linux. Sure, put the iWhatever in the museum of modern art, but just about any business-clas laptop will run linux.
Hacker News Front Page Snapshot from Last Night
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#72Earlier 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.
Steve was directly or indirectly responsible for a lot of people's lives and livelihoods here. Every mobile developer, everyone running Rails or Django on a Macbook, everyone interested in the aesthetics of product design...that's probably 90% of HN that's been shaped for the better by his life. It's appropriate that we give him a few hours on a homepage as a tribute. We're a virtual community so we can't do a 21-gun…
Having a black stripe and a few hot topics is ok, but what we had yesterday was a bit beyond rationality, imo. Keeping one's mind when someone we love dies is very hard and very important.
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#73Two things are very interesting to me here: - This 100% Steve Jobs page was actually organically generated. - Several members of the community took screen/snapshots yesterday when they discovered the frontpage like this. Those things make me realize how like-minded can some of the members in this community be.
Here let me aid your statistics:
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#74I did this snapshot (we see more clearly):
http://i.imgur.com/pkT8z.png
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#75Two things are very interesting to me here: - This 100% Steve Jobs page was actually organically generated. - Several members of the community took screen/snapshots yesterday when they discovered the frontpage like this. Those things make me realize how like-minded can some of the members in this community be.
It's not just the HN crowd - I walked by the SF Apple Store today and the front windows were covered in post-it notes full of thoughts from passers by. I know we in the tech world followed his every little move, but it surprised me how much, well, regular people cared.
I've never seen this kind of reaction for the death of any famous person who isn't a politician/community leader.
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#76Hacker News: no other news on that day.
http://images.schedim.de/hacker_news_steve_jobs.png
(from Do 06 Okt 2011 09:15:01 CEST)
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#78I don't actually care about Steve Jobs death, despite my MacBook, my PowerBook 520c and my Apple //c. I'd probably be sad if Woz passed away.
The only public figure death that really saddened me at the time was Miles Davis'. I remember that so vividly.
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#792 hours earlier http://hackerbra.in/steve.png
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
And annoying. Did you consider adding a filter to increase diversity?
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.
People are curious when someone like Steve Jobs dies. This is something that will never happen to you when your time comes.