Yeah, exactly, I went out to page 4 of the "new" queue and was only able to find a few stories that weren't Steve Jobs related. I guess I'll just come back later.
Whether you use/buy/like Apple products or not - it's clear they (largely under Jobs' guidance) have been one of the fundamental forces shaping the computing and consumer electronics landscapes for over 3 decades.
The man was a giant in his industry - up there with Gates and Torvalds. The world will continue on without him, and innovation/invention/market-leadership will rise, fall, and change in spite of him. Getting accolades from the likes of Gates, Brin, Page, Zuckerberg et al shows a lot about Jobs. Getting accolades from Obama shows different things. Im my opinion, filling the first 2 or 3 pages of HackerNews says an awful lot about how people in this community respect the man.
Geez man, I've only bought one Apple product in my life but this is a once in a lifetime event. Come back in a few days if you don't want to read about him.
Guilty as charged about contributing to the problem, but I went to the new queue with the express purpose of voting up every non-Steve Jobs related story I could find, and didn't find many. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
I still assert that it's ridiculous. Hell, the reddit front page is more sane right now than the HN front page, and that's saying something.
The "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" comment was tongue-in-cheek and I apologize if it came off as insensitive.
I have a ton of respect for the guy, and it's definitely a huge loss. But I'm just trying to say that maybe people are going a _bit_ overboard with the Steve Jobs stories. Can you understand where I'm coming from?
Also, for tonight I have been and will continue to be reading reddit, and would appreciate if you didn't throw that around like it's a bad thing -- because right now it's a hell of a lot more interesting than HN. And, reddit has even managed to appropriately pay their respects to Steve with a couple of nice tributes on the front page.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 30.1 ms ] threadPeople need to "mourn" even if we don't agree with the overboard attention.
I'm just going to come back tomorrow, you guys have fun.
This is how the modern news cycle works, it has to burn itself out.
What I am doing is using the new bigrss feed and working from the bottom to the top.
but 56 is too young for anyone and my condolences to those who are affected by this.
The man was a giant in his industry - up there with Gates and Torvalds. The world will continue on without him, and innovation/invention/market-leadership will rise, fall, and change in spite of him. Getting accolades from the likes of Gates, Brin, Page, Zuckerberg et al shows a lot about Jobs. Getting accolades from Obama shows different things. Im my opinion, filling the first 2 or 3 pages of HackerNews says an awful lot about how people in this community respect the man.
Vale Steve.
He deserves it man.
I still assert that it's ridiculous. Hell, the reddit front page is more sane right now than the HN front page, and that's saying something.
I have a ton of respect for the guy, and it's definitely a huge loss. But I'm just trying to say that maybe people are going a _bit_ overboard with the Steve Jobs stories. Can you understand where I'm coming from?
Also, for tonight I have been and will continue to be reading reddit, and would appreciate if you didn't throw that around like it's a bad thing -- because right now it's a hell of a lot more interesting than HN. And, reddit has even managed to appropriately pay their respects to Steve with a couple of nice tributes on the front page.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/hacker-news-filtered
I'll delete it after the weekend to respect PG.
Hope that helps.