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Request PG: Could we please have the black bar out for Steve Jobs?
I don't know what to say. It's a heart-numbing moment.
- deleted 15y ago[deleted]
- courtewing 15y agoFor the unenlightened (or perhaps just me), what do you mean by "have the black bar out"?
- mixmax 15y agothe red topbar is changed to black to show condolences.
- tialys 15y agoWhen a member of the community, or a popular figure in the hacker community passes away, a black bar is put at the top of HN in memory of that person.
- courtewing 15y agoAh! Thank you very much. It looks like the black bar is now up there, too.
- redthrowaway 15y agoTurning the orange bar at the top black. It's been done before as a sign of respect for other important people in the computing world who have passed.
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- mwill 15y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=644954 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=644954 It's a black bar across the top of the page. pg puts it up in memorial.
- s-phi-nl 15y agoPG has twice put a black bar above the top bar in memory of someone's death. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=644954 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=644954 for the first use of it, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=859117 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=859117 for the second.
- rottencupcakes 15y agoHe also did it (most recently I think) for rtm's father: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2712469 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2712469
- shareme 15y ago+1
- guelo 15y agoLooks like pg might be busy trying to keep the site up and running.
- astrodust 15y agoAnd yet it's up. Thanks.
- DiabloD3 15y ago+1
- InclinedPlane 15y agoThere's a button for that...
- cperciva 15y agoI'll say what nobody else seems willing to say: I don't think he deserves it. De mortuis nihil nisi bonum and all that, but let's face it: Steve Jobs was a skilled salesman, nothing more. Let's keep the black bar for people who have actually made a contribution to computing. Edit: 2 minutes and already voted down to -4. Oh well, I knew this would be an unpopular opinion...
- shinratdr 15y agoIf you can't even acknowledge the contribution and impact Apple has made on computing in general right now, then you are significantly more far-gone than anyone you have ever accused of being a fanboy. That's just a ridiculous statement. Steve Jobs made no contribution to computing? Complete bullshit.
- cperciva 15y agoOh, I acknowledge the impact Apple has had on computing. But they've done that primarily by being very good at marketing, not by being technically innovative.
- fredoliveira 15y agoShow me a laptop thinner than the Air. Show me a smartphone more popular than the iPhone. Show me a tablet more popular than the iPad. Show me a desktop computer selling more than the iMac. Show me a laptop selling more than the Macbook Pro. Show me the company that did multi-touch for the masses before the iPhone. Show me some better knowledge of this industry, and a bit of decency.
- shinratdr 15y agoOnce again, complete bullshit. iOS is extremely innovative, iPods changed the portable player landscape and challenging Microsoft for a real place in the desktop OS market isn't exactly easy. They are also great marketers, but to deny that Apple has brought no technical innovations to the table is just ridiculous and you know it. Or at least I hope you know it.
- younata 15y agoThanks PG.
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- harrisreynolds 15y ago+1