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I am only vaguely familiar with Aaron Swartz, so the magnitude of the response on this site surprised me and reminds me of the HN front page when Steve Jobs die
by biot 14y ago
I am only vaguely familiar with Aaron Swartz, so the magnitude of the response on this site surprised me and reminds me of the HN front page when Steve Jobs died: http://www.waybackletter.com/archive/20111005.html http://www.waybackletter.com/archive/20111005.html
- jlgreco 14y agoUnlike Jobs, Aaron was actually one of us.
- biot 14y agoIt's rather presumptuous for you to speak on behalf of everybody. I would consider them both "one of us", though I prefer to leave "us" vs. "them" labels to religious, political, and sports nuts.
- jlgreco 14y agoBy "one of us" I mean a part of our community (Hacker news in particular, and the internet hacker/programmer community at large), and I am referring to his involvement in Y Combinator.
- biot 14y agoThanks for clarifying; that makes sense now.
- elviejo 14y agoAaron was part of HackerNews, he posted and answered and Reddit was a company in the first batch of YCombinator founded companies and Aaron was one of the partners. In that sense he was "one of us"... the HackerNews community
- jacquesm 14y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=aaronsw http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=aaronsw
- aw3c2 14y agoI think it is actually not a good thing that a suicide leads to this much attention. it might encourage others to choose death to be turned into martyrs. same as the coverage from school homicides.