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No, it was organic.

by pg 15y ago

No, it was organic.

jwr 15y ago
I took a screenshot of HN yesterday. I felt this was a great tribute to Steve — demonstrates how many of our lives he touched and the respect he commands.
gbog 15y ago
And annoying. Did you consider adding a filter to increase diversity?
- pg 15y ago
  No. I thought it was good.
  - philwelch 15y ago
    I rather liked it too, and I especially liked it later on when there were just a couple of other links, like the first blades of grass poking through melting snow at the beginning of spring.
  - kamaal 15y ago
    I am from India, and pg I have a question for you. Its almost 1 in the afternoon here. So it must be midnight in the US. I also see you replying to posts during the US day time. If its not too personal, can you share you a brief outline of your schedule. I assume you do not procrastinate, but about the energy and how do you plan your tasks.
- gbog 15y ago
  Wow, lost a lot of karma with this. Anyone cares to explain downvotes? Most links about SJ yesterday did not follow HN guidelines about intellectual curiosity, in my understanding, please clarify if I'm wrong.
  - koenigdavidmj 15y ago
    1. The standards of what makes it to the front page are basically `whatever this, a community of mostly intellectuals and entrepreneurs, likes at any given time'. The admins' role is just to step in when things get abusive. 2. Now is not the time for these meta-discussions. 3. You were off-topic. (So am I, admittedly.)
    - sjwright 15y ago
      This whole thread/story is a meta-discussion. Otherwise, I completely agree.
    - gbog 15y ago
      Can you point me to the guideline you are talking about in 1)?
      - koenigdavidmj 15y ago
        It's not written; it is just how these voting-based sites (HN, Reddit, Stack Overflow) work. You appear to be familiar with this: `On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.' If a particular story meets that, upvote. If it does not, and is severely against it, flag it and move on. As for getting flooded with Steve posts a couple days ago: we are humans here too, and many of the people here would say that they lost a hero of this crowd. A lot of people needed a bit of time of mourning; that's okay once in a while.
  - ramanujan 15y ago
    Steve was directly or indirectly responsible for a lot of people's lives and livelihoods here. Every mobile developer, everyone running Rails or Django on a Macbook, everyone interested in the aesthetics of product design...that's probably 90% of HN that's been shaped for the better by his life. It's appropriate that we give him a few hours on a homepage as a tribute. We're a virtual community so we can't do a 21-gun salute, but we sure can do a 30-post homepage. Posted from my iPhone
- Bud 15y ago
  If you found it annoying, perhaps you should join another universe temporarily, instead of the one we're all in, in which this was a pretty important event.
- pbreit 15y ago
  You're digging yourself a deeper and deeper whole. In fact, it was the right number of front-page submissions for various reasons, #1 being that it is what people submitted and voted on. #2, it was a legitimately monumental news story not merely because a pillar of our industry passed away but because he was only halfway through his career. Finally, it would be difficult to overstate the impact Steve had on the PC and consumer electronics industries. And film industry. And really the world in general. Responding to one of your other notions, I am actually pretty confident that the web would not be at nearly the stage it is today without Steve's contributions both in popularizing graphical computing and supplying a computer programmable by a mere mortal (TBL, in this case).
- pbreit 15y ago
  You're digging yourself a deeper and deeper whole. In fact, it was the right number of front-page submissions for various reasons, #1 being that it is what people submitted and voted on. #2, it was a legitimately monumental news story not merely because a pillar of our industry passed away but because he was only halfway through his career. Finally, it would be difficult to overstate the impact Steve had on the PC and consumer electronics industries. And film industry. And really the world in general. Responding to one of your other notions, I am actually pretty confident that the web would not be at nearly the stage it is today without Steve's contributions both in popularizing graphical computing and supplying a computer programmable by a mere mortal (TBL, in this case).
- pbreit 15y ago
  You're digging yourself a deeper and deeper whole. In fact, it was the right number of front-page submissions for various reasons, #1 being that it is what people submitted and voted on. #2, it was a legitimately monumental news story not merely because a pillar of our industry passed away but because he was only halfway through his career. #3, thre was not going to be much other news that day. Any important news would have needed to be accidental since no one was going to try and make other news that day. Artificially generating diversity would have been...artificial. Finally, it would be difficult to overstate the impact Steve had on the PC and consumer electronics industries. And film industry. And really the world in general. Responding to one of your other notions, I am actually pretty confident that the web would not be at nearly the stage it is today without Steve's contributions both in popularizing graphical computing and supplying a computer programmable by a mere mortal (TBL, in this case).

No, it was organic.

by pg 15y ago

No, it was organic.

jwr 15y ago

I took a screenshot of HN yesterday. I felt this was a great tribute to Steve — demonstrates how many of our lives he touched and the respect he commands.

gbog 15y ago

And annoying. Did you consider adding a filter to increase diversity?

pg 15y ago
No. I thought it was good.
- philwelch 15y ago
  I rather liked it too, and I especially liked it later on when there were just a couple of other links, like the first blades of grass poking through melting snow at the beginning of spring.
- kamaal 15y ago
  I am from India, and pg I have a question for you. Its almost 1 in the afternoon here. So it must be midnight in the US. I also see you replying to posts during the US day time. If its not too personal, can you share you a brief outline of your schedule. I assume you do not procrastinate, but about the energy and how do you plan your tasks.
gbog 15y ago
Wow, lost a lot of karma with this. Anyone cares to explain downvotes? Most links about SJ yesterday did not follow HN guidelines about intellectual curiosity, in my understanding, please clarify if I'm wrong.
- koenigdavidmj 15y ago
  1. The standards of what makes it to the front page are basically `whatever this, a community of mostly intellectuals and entrepreneurs, likes at any given time'. The admins' role is just to step in when things get abusive. 2. Now is not the time for these meta-discussions. 3. You were off-topic. (So am I, admittedly.)
  - sjwright 15y ago
    This whole thread/story is a meta-discussion. Otherwise, I completely agree.
  - gbog 15y ago
    Can you point me to the guideline you are talking about in 1)?
    - koenigdavidmj 15y ago
      It's not written; it is just how these voting-based sites (HN, Reddit, Stack Overflow) work. You appear to be familiar with this: `On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.' If a particular story meets that, upvote. If it does not, and is severely against it, flag it and move on. As for getting flooded with Steve posts a couple days ago: we are humans here too, and many of the people here would say that they lost a hero of this crowd. A lot of people needed a bit of time of mourning; that's okay once in a while.
- ramanujan 15y ago
  Steve was directly or indirectly responsible for a lot of people's lives and livelihoods here. Every mobile developer, everyone running Rails or Django on a Macbook, everyone interested in the aesthetics of product design...that's probably 90% of HN that's been shaped for the better by his life. It's appropriate that we give him a few hours on a homepage as a tribute. We're a virtual community so we can't do a 21-gun salute, but we sure can do a 30-post homepage. Posted from my iPhone
Bud 15y ago
If you found it annoying, perhaps you should join another universe temporarily, instead of the one we're all in, in which this was a pretty important event.
pbreit 15y ago
You're digging yourself a deeper and deeper whole. In fact, it was the right number of front-page submissions for various reasons, #1 being that it is what people submitted and voted on. #2, it was a legitimately monumental news story not merely because a pillar of our industry passed away but because he was only halfway through his career. Finally, it would be difficult to overstate the impact Steve had on the PC and consumer electronics industries. And film industry. And really the world in general. Responding to one of your other notions, I am actually pretty confident that the web would not be at nearly the stage it is today without Steve's contributions both in popularizing graphical computing and supplying a computer programmable by a mere mortal (TBL, in this case).
pbreit 15y ago
You're digging yourself a deeper and deeper whole. In fact, it was the right number of front-page submissions for various reasons, #1 being that it is what people submitted and voted on. #2, it was a legitimately monumental news story not merely because a pillar of our industry passed away but because he was only halfway through his career. Finally, it would be difficult to overstate the impact Steve had on the PC and consumer electronics industries. And film industry. And really the world in general. Responding to one of your other notions, I am actually pretty confident that the web would not be at nearly the stage it is today without Steve's contributions both in popularizing graphical computing and supplying a computer programmable by a mere mortal (TBL, in this case).
pbreit 15y ago
You're digging yourself a deeper and deeper whole. In fact, it was the right number of front-page submissions for various reasons, #1 being that it is what people submitted and voted on. #2, it was a legitimately monumental news story not merely because a pillar of our industry passed away but because he was only halfway through his career. #3, thre was not going to be much other news that day. Any important news would have needed to be accidental since no one was going to try and make other news that day. Artificially generating diversity would have been...artificial. Finally, it would be difficult to overstate the impact Steve had on the PC and consumer electronics industries. And film industry. And really the world in general. Responding to one of your other notions, I am actually pretty confident that the web would not be at nearly the stage it is today without Steve's contributions both in popularizing graphical computing and supplying a computer programmable by a mere mortal (TBL, in this case).