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2 troll comments in the same post. Man, I wish PG or someone would just ban some people.
not a troll. I seriously don't feel anything for him more than any other human.
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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.
See also the film "Gone Baby Gone" [1], a really good film (and book) that had its release delayed due to the search for Madeleine McCann [2] [1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452623/ [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Madeleine_McCa...
Donnie Darko opened the month after 9/11, and many theaters refused to show it due to its depiction of a plane crashing. Didn't go positive in the box office likely as a result.
Absolutely excellent cult film for anyone interested.
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2 troll comments in the same post. Man, I wish PG or someone would just ban some people.
not a troll. I seriously don't feel anything for him more than any other human.
But then why do you feel the need to post that? Do you often randomly walk up to groups of people and tell them you don't care about what they are discussing?
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#64My 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 was a good business man and decent presenter, to compare him to John Lennon is utterly inappropriate.
What have you got against musicians?
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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.
No, Steve Jobs' death was only the second worst launch day ever.
The last tech startup I was involved in (I'm really dating myself here ... ) me and the CEO went to make our first pitch on September 12th, 2001.
I still have a box of business cards kicking around describing me as "CTO, zHosting Ltd". They'd make great roach papers if I could smoke (asthma: nature's way of reminding you to "just say no").
(We buried the company at a crossroads with a mouthful of garlic two weeks later. If we'd just been a month faster things could have been very different ...)
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#66To get a sense of clarity of his vision, read Jobs's 1985 Playboy Interview where he predicts the future before setting out to spend the rest of his life to invent it. http://www.txtpost.com/playboy-interview-steven-jobs/ RIP Steve Jobs
Soo.. can some of the older people around here tell me why this interview by a freelance writer for the Playboy is better and more comprehensive than everything I've read in a month? Just what exactly happened to journalism?
Playboy actually was serious about good writing, back in the day (so I hear, I'm not old enough to know from experience).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playboy
See the intro for a description of the short stories and interviews included in Playboy.
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#67That'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.
It could be because 99% of the stories were just spammy little tech rags like TechCrunch and the rest of AOL's content farm spewing out as much as they could to cash in on it.
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#68A year already? Time flies, agreed.
It's scary too. No matter how we spend our time, every single second is marching us towards our death, maybe even sooner (56?). The only consolation we can have is if we ever did something that we are proud of. That's why my greatest regrets come from wasting time.
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#69RIP to one of the greatest innovators of our time.
I agree. RIP Steve Irwin.
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#70My 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 was a good business man and decent presenter, to compare him to John Lennon is utterly inappropriate.
I think you're unfamiliar with the extent to which he's affected the way we interact with the devices we use every single day.