Margaret Hamilton has died

Re:Margaret Hamilton has died by kragen on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @07:50PM (#50000320)

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.

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Re:Margaret Hamilton has died by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @09:05PM (#50000812)

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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Re:Margaret Hamilton has died by kragen on Sunday October 11, 2026 @05:38PM (#50048074)

If you want to honor her memory, as I do, I suggest you think about what she would have wanted, which entails, at a minimum, caring about what well-informed people tell you about her life's work and beliefs.

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