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Request PG: Could we please have the black bar out for Steve Jobs?
I don't know what to say. It's a heart-numbing moment.
- deleted 15y ago[deleted]
- courtewing 15y agoFor the unenlightened (or perhaps just me), what do you mean by "have the black bar out"?
- mixmax 15y agothe red topbar is changed to black to show condolences.
- tialys 15y agoWhen a member of the community, or a popular figure in the hacker community passes away, a black bar is put at the top of HN in memory of that person.
- courtewing 15y agoAh! Thank you very much. It looks like the black bar is now up there, too.
- redthrowaway 15y agoTurning the orange bar at the top black. It's been done before as a sign of respect for other important people in the computing world who have passed.
- deleted 15y ago[deleted]
- mwill 15y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=644954 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=644954 It's a black bar across the top of the page. pg puts it up in memorial.
- s-phi-nl 15y agoPG has twice put a black bar above the top bar in memory of someone's death. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=644954 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=644954 for the first use of it, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=859117 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=859117 for the second.
- rottencupcakes 15y agoHe also did it (most recently I think) for rtm's father: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2712469 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2712469
- shareme 15y ago+1
- guelo 15y agoLooks like pg might be busy trying to keep the site up and running.
- astrodust 15y agoAnd yet it's up. Thanks.
- DiabloD3 15y ago+1
- InclinedPlane 15y agoThere's a button for that...
- cperciva 15y agoI'll say what nobody else seems willing to say: I don't think he deserves it. De mortuis nihil nisi bonum and all that, but let's face it: Steve Jobs was a skilled salesman, nothing more. Let's keep the black bar for people who have actually made a contribution to computing. Edit: 2 minutes and already voted down to -4. Oh well, I knew this would be an unpopular opinion...
- tptacek 15y agoThe black bar isn't there as a trophy for the person who died. It's there to provide a comfort to the people who are grieving as a result of what happened. I don't know Steve Jobs. He was given an amazing life; a more than ample measure of the best things the world has for us; an eminently square deal. I am, I suppose, sad in the abstract for his family. Who Jobs carefully made sure I knew almost nothing about. But Jobs made things happen, had an impact on my life, set a standard, for things I care about, and then personified --- animated --- that standard. He was relevant to me. And I am tired of cancer fucking things up that are relevant to me. So, it's messing with me, a little, and I'm glad the silly black bar is there so at least I don't feel like I'm crazy to feel that way.
- shinratdr 15y agoIf you can't even acknowledge the contribution and impact Apple has made on computing in general right now, then you are significantly more far-gone than anyone you have ever accused of being a fanboy. That's just a ridiculous statement. Steve Jobs made no contribution to computing? Complete bullshit.
- younata 15y agoThanks PG.
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- harrisreynolds 15y ago+1