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Post by bh42222 »

potatolicious wrote: post #75
uniclaude wrote: post #53

Two 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.

I found out while playing Doodle or Die. All of a sudden a lot of the drawings were apple based. At first I thought it was trolling, and then I opened another tab to check google news...

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Post by iqster »

Like many here, I've been feeling really down because of Steve's passing. At first, it was confusing ... I never even met the guy. Why am I grieving so much? Seeing all the posts on HN and FB, it is comforting to know it's not just me who never met him, and yet is profoundly sad at his passing. He was a personal hero to so many of us.

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Post by vanhoosear »

wuster wrote: post #138
MatthewB wrote: post #41

I 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.

I can definitely say that he changed mine. My first WYSIWYG word processing experience was on an Apple //c (they loved those slashes instead of the Is for some reason), and I ended up in marketing and communications partly because Steve Jobs took that calligraphy class in college, and I loved the fonts I could play with...

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Post by chugger »

gbog wrote: post #87
chugger wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People are curious when someone like Steve Jobs dies. This is something that will never happen to you when your time comes.

I didn't see anything intellectually interesting in Larry Page, Sergey Brin, etc. posts about SJ death. Maybe I'm blind... Oh, and please avoid ad personam arguments, they are useless.

No you're not blind. you're something else.

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Post by geogra4 »

antihero wrote: post #136
romaniv wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That's the whole point. Henry Ford didn't invent the automobile but that didn't mean he had no impact in how quickly it was adopted!

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Post by bhickey »

potatolicious wrote: post #75
uniclaude wrote: post #53

Two 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.

My MacBook Air broke on Wednesday night, so I brought it in to the Apple Store in Providence. A few people had left flowers at the doorstep. Inside, however, it was business as usual.

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Post by raimondious »

AndyKelley wrote: post #73
uniclaude wrote: post #53

Two 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: http://superjoesoftware.com/temp/hn-steve.png

http://cl.ly/112v3A30012Y1I0h302f
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