If any man deserved this, Steve Jobs most certainly did.
However, there are plenty of people whose contribusions to humanity wastly exceed what Jobs did. Would they get this kind of coverage if deceased? I seriously doubt that.
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What's a blatant join?
I mean you can tell where I joined 2 separate screenshots together as there is a sudden change in the size of the gap between posts at one point.
I don't actually see it. But, you might want to check out the Awesome Screenshot add-in for Firefox and Chrome. It lets you capture the whole page, as well as crop, annotate and blur.
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#134Two 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.
That's scary, I did my own screenshot to whine about it on Facebook. I didn't realise that so many other people had done pretty much the same thing.
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Chances are you would not be posting this rationale online if not for Steve Jobs. He brought computers down to the level of mere mortals (and others copied his vision leading to the explosion of personal computing globally). No computers --> No internet. You should keep that in mind. ps. Even the original protocols for the internet were laid down by Tim Berners-Lee on a Steve Jobs-conceived Next computer.
This is most probably false, but even if it was true it would not be a receivable argument.
If this is in reply to Tim Berners Lee writing the web on a NeXt, it is not false. He also went to Paris to a conference to show Steve the stuff with his black NeXt. Unfortunately he (Tim) was at the end of the line and Steve had to leave before seeing his "web".
Actually if I recall, since then, Tim never met Steve until very recently or perhaps they have never met.
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#136If any man deserved this, Steve Jobs most certainly did.
However, there are plenty of people whose contribusions to humanity wastly exceed what Jobs did. Would they get this kind of coverage if deceased? I seriously doubt that.
It's annoying - I mean yes he made some excellent products and an arguably visionary ability to capitalise on consumers, but most of his products were hardly original - he just took existing ideas and made them more user friendly and pretty.
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#137I still can't believe Steve Jobs is gone. I don't think I've ever felt this sad about someone I've never met. I always thought I would meet Steve eventually, especially since I finally moved to Silicon Valley recently. He will always be my hero and an inspiration to me in every aspect of my life.
In every aspect, are you serious? You have to diversify your influences...
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#138I still can't believe Steve Jobs is gone. I don't think I've ever felt this sad about someone I've never met. I always thought I would meet Steve eventually, especially since I finally moved to Silicon Valley recently. He will always be my hero and an inspiration to me in every aspect of my life.
16-year Mac user here - I wouldn't go to the extent of saying Jobs changed my life. Apple devices influenced how I got my work done, which is non-trivial, but I won't idol worship him in an emotional manner. He's still only human just like the rest of us.
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This is most probably false, but even if it was true it would not be a receivable argument.
If this is in reply to Tim Berners Lee writing the web on a NeXt, it is not false. He also went to Paris to a conference to show Steve the stuff with his black NeXt. Unfortunately he (Tim) was at the end of the line and Steve had to leave before seeing his "web". Actually if I recall, since then, Tim never met Steve until very recently or perhaps they have never met.
I was replying to "no Steve = no web", which seem a good sample of irrational exaggeration I'd rather not see on hn, even on his death.
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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)?
It's not written; it is just how these voting-based sites (HN, Reddit, Stack Overflow) work.
You appear to be familiar with this: `On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.'
If a particular story meets that, upvote. If it does not, and is severely against it, flag it and move on.
As for getting flooded with Steve posts a couple days ago: we are humans here too, and many of the people here would say that they lost a hero of this crowd. A lot of people needed a bit of time of mourning; that's okay once in a while.