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MandLoys

It's a good reflection of how marketing works today. Jobs was a "huge brand" while I'm sure most people haven't even heard about Dennis Ritchie, or for that matter Unix and C...

Kiopa_Matt

But, but... Jobs made things that flashed, made noises, and you could pinch and poke.

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He made your mom?

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wizzard

@op, both of them deserve respect. Why so frustrated about Steve Jobs death ?

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marketer23

people die everyday - not everyone gets fame and recognition for what they accomplish in life.

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clyde

It's simple, Steve Jobs had more fame and money before he died.
He also founded Pixar.

RIP to the both of them though.

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Your_Pal

Bwahaha.

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JoseArmando

You're one of rare posters right now that I think deserve a strong banhammer.

Though I bet you were already banned here and this is your 2nd account.

Moxie

He actually bought Pixar after it had been around over 5 years.


Jobs made himself the public face of a well known company. The death of Wendy's founder Dave Thomas would have received much less coverage if he had never been in their commercials and such.

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Dr_Ngo

y u so mad?

It's not a popularity contest

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crackp0t

By the coverage of both deaths, yes it was a popularity contest. Ritchies gifts to the computing world far out weigh anything Jobs gave us. The death of Ritchie is truly a sad day in the world of computing and yes the passing of Jobs was sad as well. However, Jobs stood on the shoulders of Ritchie and it's sad the world never knew it.

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Dr_Ngo

I don't see what Steve Jobs has to do with Ritchie's Death. You can mourn Ritchie without putting down the death of another person.

Of course there's going to be more coverage of Job's death. Nearly everyone in America knew who Jobs was, maybe 2% of the American population knew who Ritchie was. Most of Ritchie's innovations were in the 70's and 80's. There's no need to "Fuck Steve Jobs" because his contributions are more well known.

I'm not sure what you want, there's coverage of Ritchie's death in the news. You want a movie made on him or 14 year old girls saying RIP on their Facebook walls?

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JCash

Any idiot who has a magpie-like fascination with shiny toys with a wheel and one button can be a Steve Jobs fan for making it ok to be bad at computers and internets. Guys like dmr built the foundations that let guys like Jobs polish turds, make an apple light up in the middle of them and sell them at a premium.

liesnillusions

Who cares though... they're both dead and we're all atheists (I hope). They don't need grieving, grieving is a very vain act not worth the energy for scientists like ourselves. If you want to remember them fine, do it on your own, and do something productive with it. Build something or create something in their honor, but don't pettily argue on a message board about it.

Rage9

Although I agree Yuckstuff is normally a giant trolling douche bag, he's right on this account. Or are you just angry he's taking stabs at Steve Jobs?

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I agree bros, Denise Richards will be greatly missed.

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-joe-

This. RIP to both of them and their loved ones.
Lemme know when you're the CEO of a $75 billion dollar company, bro.

DrewClement

You missed the point completely my love.

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Jeeta

Sad, he was a great dude.

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faceblogger

Business/Marketing skills vs Science/Engineering Skills (Steve Jobs vs Dennis Ritchie)

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efeezy

R.I.P. Dennis Ritchie.

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thinksmarty

Anyone have a good picture of him?

Scrabbler

Dennis Ritchie Home Page

RIP. dmr

JCash

This is a good illustration of Richie:

lincolndsp

how many did mourn the guy who invented the wheel, the guy who invented electricity?
is this the real life?

Wicked Ice

LOL @ OP.

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Triped

As someone stated, Dennis Ritchie can be mourned perfectly, without downing the death of another person.

It's not a popularity contest as someone suggested, it's more about the niche of people that you appeal.

For almost everyone that owns an iPhone, iPad or an iPod or any of those other iThings, Steve Jobs was the creator (sic) of those products. He appealed to the "consumer" part of the public. It's this same consumers that are mourning his death and hence you see such threads sprouting everywhere. People are continuously searching about Steve Jobs and hence you see blogs, websites (read marketers/webmasters) writing about him and trying to add as much content to it as possible.

Whereas, Denis Ritchie, only appealed to the technical crowd. More so, the extremely technical crowd. His developments were no doubt very important for us and contribute greatly to the IT world that we see today, but that doesn't mean everyone should know about him, or for that matter, mourn his death.

Dennis Ritchie was a pioneer in the computer industry on its own and there is no reason to resort to cheap tricks to highlight his accomplishments and invaluable contributions to the world. Ritchie is an absolutely historic person, among these who defined the base on which everything is running, no doubt. But I would say that Jobs' and Ritchie's legacies are not really that tied together since they were engaged in the different level of technology.

Ritchie was a technologist, who developed code architectures. Steve Jobs was a technologist, a visionary who worked with the amalgamation of code architectures and design.

'nuff said.

papajohn56

ITT neckbeards get butthurt

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mikecarquote

Both deserve a lot of respect for their accomplishments. Both carried forward work others started.

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in UNIX OS , the assembly code was machine dependent..
so,the version could not be portable..
so Ken Thompson rewrite the whole UNIX code in the new language called B..
But B missed several necessary aspects for real life programming..
so, Ritchie invented the new language called C which solved the inadequacies of B.

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The syntax of B and C look quite similar

Mugshot

people will only mourn if they can emotionally connect with it