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This was the first time I have seen the entire front page consisting of articles on one topic. The snapshot is from 11pm PDT, and it is from a site that archives the Hacker News front page.
well, there was the great erlang flood of '09 (though I can't find a screen grab): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145
I still can't believe Steve Jobs is gone. I don't think I've ever felt this sad about someone I've never met. I always thought I would meet Steve eventually, especially since I finally moved to Silicon Valley recently. He will always be my hero and an inspiration to me in every aspect of my life.
If it weren't for him and his team totally disrupting the phone market with a truly futuristic device, I wouldn't have discovered my passion for making games or be making a living doing so!
I still can't believe Steve Jobs is gone. I don't think I've ever felt this sad about someone I've never met. I always thought I would meet Steve eventually, especially since I finally moved to Silicon Valley recently. He will always be my hero and an inspiration to me in every aspect of my life.
16-year Mac user here - I wouldn't go to the extent of saying Jobs changed my life. Apple devices influenced how I got my work done, which is non-trivial, but I won't idol worship him in an emotional manner. He's still only human just like the rest of us.
In fact, it is his humanity that I respect and mourn the most: his drive to better himself and the world around him, an uncompromising vision in the face of adversity, and an unwillingness to give up.
Two things are very interesting to me here: - This 100% Steve Jobs page was actually organically generated. - Several members of the community took screen/snapshots yesterday when they discovered the frontpage like this. Those things make me realize how like-minded can some of the members in this community be.
Like-minded indeed.
I remember at about 6:05PM there seemed to be a few threads about it, but when my eyes caught the first title...instant grief.
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16-year Mac user here - I wouldn't go to the extent of saying Jobs changed my life. Apple devices influenced how I got my work done, which is non-trivial, but I won't idol worship him in an emotional manner. He's still only human just like the rest of us.
I can definitely say that he changed mine. My first WYSIWYG word processing experience was on an Apple //c (they loved those slashes instead of the Is for some reason), and I ended up in marketing and communications partly because Steve Jobs took that calligraphy class in college, and I loved the fonts I could play with...
One of the most frustrating things about his eulogizing (and yes, I'm no great Jobs fan) is the number of things attributed to him that simply aren't true. I saw a breathy news cast last night broadcasting from "outside the garage where Jobs invented and assembled the first Apple II", which really drove me nuts.
"sup dog"
I apologize for inappropriately using a meme to make that point.
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Take the downvotes (no, I didn't) as a read of how at odds your PoV is with that of, well, however many people took the time to downvote you. I'm not a Mac fanatic, I'm not a worshipper of all things Steve, I don't use any of Apple's products on a daily basis (though I work with a bunch of people who do). And despite this, his contributions shape and influence my life every day. The WIMP interface, proportional fonts…
Thanks for explaining, but it is not to the point. I did not express any disregard for Steve Jobs, it would have been displaced. I did express concerns about the fact that during one day, HN had nothing else on the front page.
Steve Jobs had a huge impact across numerous fields.
Computing and tech, from the hardware side.
Business. Wall Street doesn't much like being told it's wrong, but there's one refutation that it will accept: taking a loser and making a winner out of it. When much of the world (myself included) was writing off Apple in the late 1990s, he lit off a rocket that's still burning bright.
Music: iPods, iTunes and more.
Movies: Pixar and Disney, as well as presentation on his devices (Macs, laptops, tablets, handhelds).
Design: much of the creative world literally couldn't operate without their Macs.
News: Apple's pretty well represented there as well.
Popular culture: Because of all of the above, and the huge success of his products, he's among the most recognized of tech/business leaders.
There are a few holes. He wasn't an engineer himself (though he had a very strong grasp of what good engineering was), and he wasn't publicly philanthropic to the extent some (notably Gates) are (though I don't know what he's done on a private front).
But across a large swatch of contemporary popular culture, he was recognized as a leader.
Again: the HN headline smash was organic. I think it's fair to say that it accurately reflected the interest of the day.
