I'm sure the black bar isn't there because PG happens to be asleep. Its unfortunate that he'll wake up to such bad news.
You don't have to wait PG to wake up, I already set my "topcolor" to black.
Let's black bar HN
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#12Any 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.
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 the one that seemed friendliest, and asked them to put me on the Working Group. They did.
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#13I, 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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#14http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=aaronsw
Aaron will be remembered for ever.
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#15I, 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.
That's a very narrow minded way to look at it. It's difficult to comprehend what he was going through to take such a drastic step. I understand that he was facing a unreasonably long prison sentence for downloading academic papers. As someone points out in another thread, that basically meant he didn't have the freedom to really move forward with his life, even before being sentenced he had lost his freedom. Thats a horrible life to lead. Perhaps he finally lost hope...
His legacy will live on as long as people use Reddit or RSS (or perhaps even anything derived from it), you don't necessarily need to "think" of him. I'm sure a lot of people will be using RSS and Reddit in 6 months.
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#16I, 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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#17I, 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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> it would be the first time that someone who committed suicide had a black bar on HN to mourn them.
You are wrong.
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#18I, 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.
> I, for one, don't care
Goddamnit, have some sensitivity, he only just died and many people on here know him personally.
If this is a troll then why don't you go reevaluate your priorities in life? Take some magic mushrooms and think about how your actions alter the world.
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#19http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=aaronsw Aaron will be remembered for ever.
It would be nice if an online site existed where we could dump all a persons writings, images and video for anyone to view at a later date. Really get a feel for what the guy was all about.
Like a wiki-style crowd sourced memorial site.
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#20I, 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.
They may not 'think' about it as you refer, but will likely be using RSS in some form, or reading a link via reddit or some other interesting achievement.
Have some bloody respect.