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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 Mac
by 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.
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- gbog 15y agoHaving a black stripe and a few hot topics is ok, but what we had yesterday was a bit beyond rationality, imo. Keeping one's mind when someone we love dies is very hard and very important.
- patrickk 15y agoChances are you would not be posting this rationale online if not for Steve Jobs. He brought computers down to the level of mere mortals (and others copied his vision leading to the explosion of personal computing globally). No computers --> No internet. You should keep that in mind. ps. Even the original protocols for the internet were laid down by Tim Berners-Lee on a Steve Jobs-conceived Next computer.
- gbog 15y agoThis is most probably false, but even if it was true it would not be a receivable argument.
- tuhin 15y agoIf this is in reply to Tim Berners Lee writing the web on a NeXt, it is not false. He also went to Paris to a conference to show Steve the stuff with his black NeXt. Unfortunately he (Tim) was at the end of the line and Steve had to leave before seeing his "web". Actually if I recall, since then, Tim never met Steve until very recently or perhaps they have never met.
- gbog 15y agoI was replying to "no Steve = no web", which seem a good sample of irrational exaggeration I'd rather not see on hn, even on his death.