Computer scientist Margaret Hamilton with the extensive amount of code she and her team wrote to guide the NASA mission to the Moon, USA, 1969 : historyporn

[–] rrconkle@lemmy.zip 110 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Here's a higher quality version

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is the dress black and blue or white and gold?

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 37 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This was the 1960s so I imagine it was more godawful than that.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Purple, green, and some unidentifiable color somewhere between red or brown that whispers of the King in Yellow.

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

You're doing God's work.

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[–] red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 2 months ago (3 children)

She was around 33 when this photo was taken. I don't want to talk about what I had achieved at 33.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Yeah, it's probably too late for you...

RIP Fauja Singh 😢

[–] infeeeee@lemmy.zip 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 7 points 2 months ago

Martha was a model 2 decades before she wrote a book.

[–] red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's not helpful. Almost all these people were working towards their big thing many, many years earlier.

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[–] makyo@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don't expect to do anything cool if you're 46 tho

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[–] LowtierComputer@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Not everyone is a motivated genius. Got to work with what you've got.

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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago

One of my favorite Lego adaptations.

From the official Women of NASA set.

[–] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I mean she still is his mom.

[–] Nelots@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago

Are you sure? Do you have a source for that claim?

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[–] JackLSauce@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago (2 children)

And we've been trying to find a more concise isEven function ever since

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[–] fargeol@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago (11 children)

If you want to see what the code looks like, it's on Github: https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11

[–] axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 4 points 2 months ago

no way they got README.md back in the day

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[–] queueBenSis@sh.itjust.works 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago

Daniel Radcliffe has so much range

[–] Olap@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago

Margaret Hamilton is a total boss. Check out her wikipedia entry

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(software_engineer)

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

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

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I have a Lego version of her on my shelf.

[–] cuteness@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wish this wasn’t a retired set.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

We all know why this was retired.... 😔

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[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (4 children)

That's one of the most appealing women I've seen all week

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

No kidding, geeky hotness is the best and most hot kind.

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[–] JoShmoe@ani.social 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Give it to me verbose. terminal scrolling

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Scrolling? Good sir or madam, these are books, not scrolls. It's the 1960s, not the 960s

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago

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

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

[terminal flipping]

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[–] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Imagine having to look for the missing semicolon in there!

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 8 points 2 months ago

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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[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Vibe coders out there thinking they could accomplish the same thing by getting a robot to make it

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

I can make twice that amount of code in 24hours! And I am willing to bet it would be just as good as SpaceX!

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

I'm old. I know this kind of binders, and have used them a lot back then.

[–] dil@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] dil@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago

Margo madison from the show is based off her and the first female engineer at nasa

[–] diptchip@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Damn, girl.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 5 points 2 months ago

Dark hair and glasses. Nerdy women's style hasn't changed much in 80 years, and I'm here for it.

[–] LaterRedditor@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Looks like she's ready for Twitter code review.

[–] notsure@fedia.io 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

...the witch?...

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[–] tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They should make a high budget movie about her.

Daniel Radcliffe would be awesome in the role.

(Not trolling)

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