Re:Farewell Stack Exchange
by georgieporgie on Monday February 06, 2012 @08:37PM
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There is absolutely no comparison between Steve Jobs -- a man who carved a sizable niche in a market, created another market that never existed before (app store), built a massive company, and whose direct oversight impacted all sorts of people -- dying, and Atwood simply leaving SO.
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There is, by the logic you've set out here. Both were personal events that had no direct consequence to the HN crowd.
Re:Farewell Stack Exchange
by georgieporgie on Tuesday February 07, 2012 @01:30AM
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No, Steve Jobs dying had a very real potential effect on many parts of the industry. When the person generally credited with being the driving force behind Apple dies, it's got potential ramifications everywhere. When Atwood simply leaves a website which has already reached critical mass an matured, it doesn't.