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Not sure how many HN people follow the Bogle philosophy, but to me it feels not inappropriate to turn on the black bar.
by paws 8y ago
Not sure how many HN people follow the Bogle philosophy, but to me it feels not inappropriate to turn on the black bar.
- DLA 8y agoCould not agree more.
- winslow 8y agoWhat is the black bar? My GoogleFu/DuckDuckGoFu returned nothing but articles about his passing.
- jdhn 8y agoI believe that the black bar is put up at the top of the site after someone who is considered important by HN readership dies.
- mindcrime 8y agoSee: https://i.imgur.com/ZphvVST.png https://i.imgur.com/ZphvVST.png This is done when someone passes who is considered especially (noteworthy|significant|involved|something) to/with the HN community. AFAIK there's no exact formula for determining who the mods deem worthy of that tribute, but I do know that they don't do it for everybody famous who dies. It's usually people who are particularly close to the HN world in some way.
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- jmccaf 8y agoI vote for black-bar
- owenversteeg 8y agoI think there's a ton of people here who follow Bogle's ideas. It's the go-to investment advice for anyone in tech that everyone parrots. That said, I think the discussion of a black bar every time someone dies is a little repetitive and kind of sours the process. On a related note, I was looking for the list of people who got black bars, and I couldn't find one. Does anyone know if there's an (un)official list? I'll start: Aaron Swartz Gerald M. Weinberg Steve Jobs Stephen Hawking Andy Grove Marvin Minsky I seem to remember Terry Davis didn't, which disappointed me, but made sense as there was confusion around if he was dead at first.