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Re:Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first bla... by danso on Thursday April 11, 2019 @07:02PM (#19640163)
Incredible, that a purported programmer/software engineer in 2019 thinks that someone's Github commit history is the sum total of all their work. Not only that, you seem to be completely ignorant of how to find someone's Github commits to repos that aren't owned by their account.

https://github.com/achael/eht-imaging/graphs/contributors

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Re:Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first bla... by sodafountan on Friday April 12, 2019 @02:09AM (#19642396)
You're right, I had assumed that the project that she was the owner of on her github portfolio was her primary contribution - I jumped to conclusions without digging any deeper and I'd delete the comment if Hacker News would let me.
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Re:Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first bla... by mst on Friday April 12, 2019 @06:43PM (#19649712)
I fear people are down voting you for having been wrong originally rather than for this comment.

Which is a shame, because we all do things this stupid sometimes and your frank admission of having done so is laudable.

Nil desperandum carborundum illegitimi.

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