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please stop submitting or voting up stories like this. HN is not a place to read obituaries and it never leads to any kind of interesting discussion.
by mariorz 17y ago
please stop submitting or voting up stories like this. HN is not a place to read obituaries and it never leads to any kind of interesting discussion.
- diego 17y agoIt depends on the person. If a prominent figure in the tech community dies, people might discuss interesting anecdotes and maybe first-hand accounts here. You can't have a hard-and-fast rule like that. Also, it seems that people in general are a bit oversensitized right now regarding celebrity deaths. On Twitter at least Billy Mays is getting more mentions than Farrah Fawcett did. http://twist.flaptor.com/?span=168&gram=billy+mays%2C+farrah+fawcett http://twist.flaptor.com/?span=168&gram=billy+mays%2C+fa...
- petercooper 17y agoOr Michael Jackson, clearly.
- JoeH 17y agoA month ago I would have agreed with this statement, but after watching a couple episodes of the "Pitchmen" on the Discovery channel, I found Billy Mays and the whole process of promoting products very relevant to me as a startup founder.
- mariorz 17y agothe process of him decomposing under the earth is not relevant to you as a startup founder though.