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From Wikipedia: "News of Ritchie's death was largely overshadowed by the media coverage of the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, which occurred the week before."

NOW I'm sad.

RIP Richie, your place in computing heaven is secured.

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HN has a weak spot for Marketroids like Jobs or Musk. It it sad that the people being praised are not the ones doing the work, just the ones presenting it. For me, Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson, Brian Kernighan, Alfred Aho are real people who built something. The others (Musk, Jobs) are only opportunists with a big mouth.

Yeah, it really frustrates me that this site's startup culture worships people who are veritably garbage individuals as opposed to recognizing the people who, you know, actually built the stuff in the first place. I struggle imagining a world where so-called hackers respect Jobs more than Wozniak or Dennis Ritchie, but here we are...

HN had the black bar at the top when Dennis Ritchie died, and a thread about it.

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