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Is the dress black and blue or white and gold?
This was the 1960s so I imagine it was more godawful than that.
Purple, green, and some unidentifiable color somewhere between red or brown that whispers of the King in Yellow.
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You're doing God's work.
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She was around 33 when this photo was taken. I don't want to talk about what I had achieved at 33.
Yeah, it's probably too late for you...
RIP Fauja Singh 😢
Robert Downey Jr. was nominated to Oscar in 1992, at the age of 27, he didn't win though. There was a joke about him in Simpsons in 1999, so he was already a well known name far before Iron Man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhjHVQsJOlo
His life is more like an example of how people can get back to the top after years of heavy drug abuse.
Martha Stewart wrote her first book at the age of 42, I would count that as the start of her career.
This chart is a bit confusing, sometimes it lists when people started a later flourishing business, sometime when they were at the top.
Martha was a model 2 decades before she wrote a book.
Yeah, that's not helpful. Almost all these people were working towards their big thing many, many years earlier.
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Not everyone is a motivated genius. Got to work with what you've got.
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One of my favorite Lego adaptations.
From the official Women of NASA set.
In the vein of awesome women at NASA, there’s also Judith Love Cohen who worked on the abort guidance system for Apollo and was Jack Black’s mom.
I mean she still is his mom.
Are you sure? Do you have a source for that claim?
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And we've been trying to find a more concise isEven function ever since
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If you want to see what the code looks like, it's on Github: https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11
no way they got README.md back in the day
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wish i learned about people like her back in history class. we just learned about the men on the ship. but not the vital people that made the ship land and come back without crashing
This song really hit me with that because it's both an acknowledgement that the Apollo 11 mission deserves folk music and praise for everyone who got them there and back. Though it doesnt reference the programmers and mathematicians involved
Hamilton was one of many heroes in the program. A lot of folks from the ordinary to the abnormal to the brilliant worked together and did just about the most extraordinary things anyone ever did. Every weld, every pipe fit, every wire run, every sheet stamped, every number crunched, every chemical mixed… was a part of that project.
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Daniel Radcliffe has so much range
Margaret Hamilton is a total boss. Check out her wikipedia entry
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(software_engineer)
I've always loved that picture for the sheer look of pride on her face. This is someone who knows she did something great and is happy to show it off
That's one of the most appealing women I've seen all week
No kidding, geeky hotness is the best and most hot kind.
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Give it to me verbose. terminal scrolling
Scrolling? Good sir or madam, these are books, not scrolls. It's the 1960s, not the 960s
Thanks for making me realize after 30 years of life terminally on the computer that computer 'scrolling' is in reference to 'unraveling' the page like an actual scroll
[terminal flipping]
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Imagine having to look for the missing semicolon in there!
They programmed it in assembly instead of a programming language back then so semicolons weren't needed.
Here is the inventor of assembly programming, Kathleen Booth.
Woosh
You can make syntax errors in assembler, too. Ask me how I know.
Assembler for a wire-core memory computer? Isn't assembler for 8080-type systems?
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Vibe coders out there thinking they could accomplish the same thing by getting a robot to make it
I can make twice that amount of code in 24hours! And I am willing to bet it would be just as good as SpaceX!
I'm old. I know this kind of binders, and have used them a lot back then.
If you haven't watched for all mankind, it's a great alt history show thats caught up to modern day, if the space race never ended
Margo madison from the show is based off her and the first female engineer at nasa
Damn, girl.
Dark hair and glasses. Nerdy women's style hasn't changed much in 80 years, and I'm here for it.
Looks like she's ready for Twitter code review.
They should make a high budget movie about her.
Daniel Radcliffe would be awesome in the role.
(Not trolling)
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