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▲ jxf 7 hours ago

Margaret Hamilton was 1,000% a hacker. She basically pioneered the foundations of asynchronous code and was one of the first people to work on rockets at a time when software engineering was in its infancy.

▲kragen 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm well aware of her impressive achievements. But she had to share computing resources with the original "hackers", the ones who gave us the word, and I don't think she was very fond of them, or of the hacking approach in general; her ingenuity was great but not especially playful. So I don't think she would want to be memorialized here.

▲AnimalMuppet 6 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't particularly care what you think about what she would think about the definition of a word used in the site name. She's a person worth remembering and honoring.

Let your weird fixation on the word stop you from honoring her here if you want. It won't stop me.

Rest in peace, Margaret.

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