I did not know Aaron, but in my mind, I knew Aaron not as an activist, although he was. I knew Aaron as an architect, an engineer, a programmer, a visionary. I'

I did not know Aaron, but in my mind, I knew Aaron not as an activist, although he was. I knew Aaron as an architect, an engineer, a programmer, a visionary. I'm sure he talked, I'm sure he protested and I'm sure he did many other things, but to me what Aaron did was build the future. He literally built a small part of the future, using computers and algorithms. You can take a thousand activists--tens of thousands--but at the end of the month, if none of them build anything, there will be nothing left after they leave. Not even words. What would Aaron do? Would Aaron have just passively asked for people to come forward? Would he have asked everyone to post some icon everywhere? Some forgettable meme? Or would he have created something? Something that maybe wouldn't be obvious to the likes of us, to the likes of the EFF and The New Yorker? Something explosive (figuratively, Ms. Ortiz, figuratively)? Something evolutionary? Would he have banged out some code that would make even die hard Wikipedians feel unwise? I don't know. I really don't. I don't even know what A/B testing means. But if no one else does, I have a feeling this is going to suck. Edit: I didn't even know downvoting was possible on HN, but hey, if haters aren't hating then you're doing it wrong