Margaret Hamilton has died

Re:Margaret Hamilton has died by ghastmaster on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @08:54PM (#50000732)

She was an excellent leader in a time when women were not commonly in leadership roles. She clearly understood coding and perhaps changed the way the field viewed the importance of software. Did she do any coding that was monumental herself? All I can find is fluff pieces. She managed a team that developed the code for Apollo 11. She did not write all the code in the famous pictures. Did she write some of it or just guide the team in the right direction?

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Re:Margaret Hamilton has died by jojobas on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @10:20PM (#50001263)

She assumed management of the team after most of the code was written. She probably did something cool, but almost certainly not as much the praise articles of the last 15(?) years would like you to believe.

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Re:Margaret Hamilton has died by DonHopkins on Thursday October 08, 2026 @09:11AM (#50005417)

Some friendly advice to ghastmaster and jojobas: you both come off as such petty jealous little boys, desperately trying to compensite for your own insecurities by tearing women down, who've accomplished so much more in their lives than you ever will, by many orders of magnitude, and are widely respected, like you never will be. Do you regularly crash funerals you're not invited to, just to take a dump on the coffin?

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Re:Margaret Hamilton has died by ghastmaster on Thursday October 08, 2026 @11:22AM (#50006926)

I am seeking answers I haven't been able to find. Do you have the answers?

PS: That was not friendly advice.

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Re:Margaret Hamilton has died by DonHopkins on Thursday October 08, 2026 @12:13PM (#50007665)

I don't care, and neither does anyone else, which is why you were so downvoted and flagged dead. So fuck off somewhere else, and stop shitting on coffins at funerals you were not invited to. And your pathetic attempt at sealioning failed spectacularly because you can't pretend to be civil and sincere while shitting on somebody's coffin. That was not friendly advice either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

>Sealioning (also sea-lioning and sea lioning) is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity ("I'm just trying to have a debate"), and feigning ignorance of the subject matter.[6][7][8][9] It may take the form of "incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate",[10] and has been likened to a denial-of-service attack targeted at human beings.[11] The term originated with a 2014 strip of the webcomic Wondermark by David Malki,[2] which The Independent called "the most apt description of Twitter you'll ever see".[3]

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Re:Margaret Hamilton has died by ghastmaster on Thursday October 08, 2026 @03:05PM (#50010481)

I'm not familiar with her body of work. I am trying to find out what code she worked on. I am trying to learn more about her.

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