• merc@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Man, after his death Aaron Swartz has gone from an early employee of Reddit, to a founder of Reddit to now the creator of Reddit. Give it a few years and he’ll have provided the VC money for it too.

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      16 hours ago

      Aaron Swartz is and always was the guy who coded the core functionality of reddit. He was the man who Tim Burners Lee said would lead the charge for the internet into the 21st century.

      Instead, the FBI drove him to death.

      Spez and that other dude had the idea to make reddit, but Aaron built it for them. Then Randall from XKCD made the “Best” sorting algorithm.

      Then Spez shat all over everything for personal gain.

      Then you came here to post.

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        15 hours ago

        And he had superpowers too, and was about to bring peace to the middle east.