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I, for one, don't care. It was his personal decision to end it this way. Also I'd like to know how many of you will think of his 'legacy' on a daily basis in 6 months time.
Every outpouring of empathy and hurt from a suicide's community might impact the actions of another contemplating the action.
The ill conceived and hasty suicides are the ones community should and can help to prevent.
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He co-authored the RSS 1.0 spec at the age of 14 . The mind boggles at what the tech world has lost out on.
Actually that's not the most amazing part. They didn't want to let him onto the RDF working group, so Aaron hacked the W3C process at the age of 14. > The rules said that while they could reject any requests to join from an individual, if an organization that was an official member of the W3C asked to put someone on the working group, they couldn't say no. So I looked down the list of W3C member organizations, found…
Any relative lack of notability vs. the others HN has black-barred was because he died so young. Think of all the things he likely would have done over the next 60 years if he slowed down even 50%.
He co-authored the RSS 1.0 spec at the age of 14 . The mind boggles at what the tech world has lost out on.
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He co-authored the RSS 1.0 spec at the age of 14 . The mind boggles at what the tech world has lost out on.
In which way was he involved in the RSS 1.0 spec? There's nothing (so far) about him on the Wikipedia RSS article.
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Is Aaron's death any less regrettable because it was a suicide rather than a car accident? I don't think so. The black bar signifies sadness for the loss of someone, it's not a political statement. I, for one, would like HN to be black barred for Aaron simply because the world is a worse place without him in it.
I, for one, don't care. It was his personal decision to end it this way. Also I'd like to know how many of you will think of his 'legacy' on a daily basis in 6 months time.
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The stigmatization against suicides as something dishonorable has to end. He was a great hacker and distinguished activist, and through I don't know him personally, I'm pretty sure he was a great guy overall. He deserves a black bar.
He died from depression. Others die from other diseases, car accidents, smoking, drugs, heart attacks, strokes and what not.
In HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=aaronsw
Pinboard: https://pinboard.in/u:aaronsw
His last tweet was on Jan 9th, https://twitter.com/aaronsw
In reddit: https://aaronsw.jottit.com/reddit
Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PGTlB14AAAAJ
Writings: https://aaronsw.jottit.com/writings
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Things he has made
HN will miss your contributions. Rest in Peace. Love.