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Thank you for your reply. I haven't seen this before so I'm guessing it's a new practice.
by vbv 13y ago
Thank you for your reply. I haven't seen this before so I'm guessing it's a new practice.
- mindstab 13y agonope, been around for a while, just seldom used.
- akavi 13y agoOff the top of my head, Aaron Schwartz, Dennis Ritchie, and Steve Jobs also merited it.
- mjn 13y agoI believe it was originally a one-time tribute for Robert Morris [1], but it has (partly due to user requests) been used a few subsequent times when people well-known in the hacker community have died. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2712469 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2712469. Besides being well-known in the hacker community generally, Morris also had a more local connection, as he was the father of Robert T. Morris, one of Y Combinator's cofounders.