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That's when I had my flag option taken away by mods, because I flagged all of these except for the top one.
It's an odd reaction that's honestly somewhat puzzling.
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.
- quit my part-time job
- decide to turn down a University offer (which I didn't really want to take but without any other real option I would have anyway)
- run my own business for the last 3.5 years
- spend 6 months in Canada
If it weren't for iOS and the App Store I would have went to University (something I really didn't want to do) and I would still have another year before graduating (not to mention the loans I would have to take out). Instead I've lived abroad, experienced running a business and had a lot of fun.
I felt nothing.
Man, I wish PG or someone would just ban some people.
Has there ever been another story (besides Jobs's death) that took over the front page of HN?
(HN got airplay somewhere, it was a scare-away-the-newbs prank.)
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Haha, I remember this. Worst launch day ever.
My favourite is the novelist Chris Cleave had his first book "Incendiary" (about a terrorist bomb attack on London) released on the same day as the 7/7 London bombings. The publisher pulled all advertising and all copies were hidden at the back of book shops as a mark of respect / so as not to be seen to be trying to profit from such an event / out of general decency. Pretty much killed it.
[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452623/ [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Madeleine_McCa...
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.
Jobs, like Lennon, was not just a celebrity. Both stood for what they believed and, by doing so, inspired countless others to do better. I know working with him was impossibly painful, but I wouldn't have thought twice at the possibility.
For some, that may sound masochistic, but, when my muscles hurt after a workout, I remind myself the next time I'll be running longer and faster. The people who work at Apple touch the lives of countless others and their quest for merging technology and art inspires us.
I don't think I would have been the same engineer I am now had I not used an Apple II+ as my first computer and had I not opened the case and been struck by its absolute elegance - if you are reading this, thanks, Woz, for being our profession's Mozart.
When I go over a post I made here (doing it right now, and there are few things humbler, in the literary sense, than a discussion board post), rephrasing everything until I'm happy with it, I feel satisfied you'll read something much better than what I would be able to do in a couple seconds, even if you miss the cut/copy/paste/type action.
That's when I had my flag option taken away by mods, because I flagged all of these except for the top one.
And rightly so. If your reaction to his death here was to go into flag-mode and just not let the front page be filled for one day with a story that so clearly affected the community, then I've got no problems with your flag rights being taken away. It's an odd reaction that's honestly somewhat puzzling.
Though the mass flagging was of course unnecessary, it's not like mods didn't see that every single post was the same thing.