Margaret Hamilton, NASA’s lead developer for Apollo program, stands next to all the code she wrote by hand that took humanity to the moon in 1969
Such a legend! Every time I see this post I’m stunned by the impact she made
This is the video of when she received the Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama: youtube.com/watch?v=X1PNp_YggAA
In this ceremony he gives the award to Margaret Hamilton and also Grace Hopper. Both well deserved!
She didn’t write all of that, she had a team of programmers working under her
Also the code is much shorter than that, the pile in this picture is just everything they had laying around at that time, so maybe different revisions or just copies. The code they used is like 1-2 of those in length.
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To be fair though, i don’t think she took sole credit nor did the blackhole researcher. Others in the media, etc. did that
If I remember correctly, the black hole researcher wasn’t the lead.
Yeah people come on this is like attributing all the code for open ai to the PM
No it isn’t, unless you think PMs are programmers. She was the lead developer and created the foundation for the software, then drove the project home. She wasn’t a non-technical person writing requirements for engineers to work on.
But from that to the title statement of “she wrote ALL the code” is a long stretch, which is where my analogy is coming from
I’d like to work under her.
Similar to what happened with the first image of a black hole. The whole thing was somehow attributed to one lady in the press. Turns out, it was a whole team of scientists working together to achieve that.
Et al of the world, assemble!
The problem isn’t that the whole thing was attributed to one lady. The problem was how quickly people were to discredit her and minimize her role, something that was guaranteed to never be a problem if she were a man.
Funny how the credibility of male scientists and engineers are never questioned in posts like these, and yet becomes a hot topic when that person happens to be a woman.
Funny how the credibility of male scientists and engineers are never questioned in posts like these
I haven’t seen a comparable image for a guy or a girl prior to this one presenting a person as having written code when they actually just led the team that wrote the code.
I do recall Al Gore claiming that he “took the initiative in creating the Internet” when he was responsible for obtaining funding for Internet infrastructure and getting ripped pretty hard for that.
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She was the first software engineer who was hired for the project and did write a good chunk of the code. She was more than someone who simply delegates and leads. Hell, she is the one who coined the term software engineer. She played a hell of a role in the history of software development. Let’s not try to diminish that.
He isn’t trying to diminish but these misleading exaggerated titles are pretty annoying and confusing at times.
I agree that the title is misleading but simply saying she was the one directing the team without also mentioning that she absolutely did write a chunk of that is also misleading and diminishes her contribution to the code.
I wouldn’t have minded working under her
Yeah, i bet she was a pretty good boss. Good mission, too.
How much mb is this?
#burn baby burn
Love what they snuck in as comments too
Absolute deity
Just like my ex. Her hand also sent all humanity to the Moon.
Undisputed GOAT.
Including comments on the code with expressions like “Crank the silly thing arround”, “see if he’s lying”, “off to see the wizard” and a sub-routine called “burnbaby”. More here: https://www.sciencealert.com/the-code-that-took-astronauts-to-the-moon-is-now-on-github
She’s definitely a legend.
That is cool. There is really wild stuff in here, like in the landing guidance equations
TC BANKCALL # TEMPORARY, I HOPE HOPE HOPE CADR STOPRATE # TEMPORARY, I HOPE HOPE HOPEIf I was an Astronaut, I think I’d reconsider going up if someone told me there was even one “I Hope” in the math.
“Are you sure about that Margaret?”
“Who the fuck knows, Buzz, I’m doing my fucking best, okay?!”
Isn’t this Jack Black’s mom?
That was Judith Love Cohen.
Smurfette, merged wth Brainy Smurf.
Sensible shoes.
Jesus. I think all the code I’ve written in the last decade could fit in two of those binders lol
That’s kind of a good thing.
It becomes way easier to accomplish things when we can encapsulate what came before.
TIL
She invented the term “software engineering”
This comment is completely underrated!
Really like her white and gold dress
Yeah I remember it. What kind of blue is that? Royal blue?
This is why I only look at raw bitmap values.
Camera raw data and white balance values or GTFO.
Beautifully, perfectly evil… Well, played, you devious swine!
Oh no, not again
Here we go
Came here looking for this. Thank you.
This is a black-and-white photo which someone colorized. The real colors could be ANYTHING.
Yanny
