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Re: Steve Jobs passed away one year ago - HN Frontpage

#11

That's when I had my flag option taken away by mods, because I flagged all of these except for the top one.

Sounds like the correct decision. I'm sure the mods noticed that the front was covered with Steve Jobs stories and would have taken action without your spam if they had a problem with it.

Re: Steve Jobs passed away one year ago - HN Frontpage

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post #6

That's when I had my flag option taken away by mods, because I flagged all of these except for the top one.

They are not even the same story? A lot of them are different takes on one event. Sure some of them are repeats, but its not like the stories are all links to 15 aggregators that point back to the same story. I guess I always thought flagging was for inappropriate material, scams and obviously false things. Do most people use flagging as a downvote substitute for stories?

Most of them are (the same story) though.

Re: Steve Jobs passed away one year ago - HN Frontpage

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post #4

When news broke about his passing, I started putting together a small archive of stories about him. I continue to update it when I come across new stuff. http://www.hausmag.com/steve-jobs.html Miss you, Steve.

My friend's done the same thing over at http://idiari.es. Going over the posts there reminded me how vast his range was — from architecture to tech to HR, he had insights in almost every area.

Re: Steve Jobs passed away one year ago - HN Frontpage

#15
It's funny to see this as I (and I suspect probably many others) felt compelled to take a screenshot when this happened, because it was so bizarre to see the front page consist of a single story - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/140966/hn_jobs.png

I also did the same when Dennis Ritchie died, though not every story was about that - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/140966/hn_ritchie.png

RIP to both of them.

Re: Steve Jobs passed away one year ago - HN Frontpage

#18
My mom sometimes talks about how she felt when John Lennon died, and I always sort of scoffed at the notion of being overwhelmed by the death of a celebrity stranger.

I understood what she meant when Steve Jobs died - I was really overwhelmed, I think because I derived such a big part of my life, livelihood, and identity from iOS over the last 3-4 years.

Re: Steve Jobs passed away one year ago - HN Frontpage

#19

Someone could have proven P=NP, and we wouldn't have noticed.

Minefold (YC W12) launched 3 hours before Steve Jobs died and got, uh, 23 upvotes[1] before disappearing into oblivion. [1] http://cl.ly/image/371P0B3j3g3H

Haha, I remember this. Worst launch day ever.
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