remember that there were only two female software engineers before 2017: grace hopper and ada lovelace
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I feel like Radia Perlman and Adele Goldberg should each be way more famous https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radia_Perlman … https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele_Goldberg_(computer_scientist) …
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women in tech aren't allowed to be famous until they're dead
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Welcome to the dead programmer's society. I return my barbaric yawp
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That's awesome, so the woman at 1:20 in this Pirates of Silicon Valley clip is probably based on Adele Goldberg!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u70CgBr-OI …
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Definitely absolutely 100%. Why don't they even say her name? I could picture the "Steve" character uttering an "Adele, .." — no problem.
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Great illustration — she's clearly once-in-a-lifetime exceptional & won the unnamed character/computer history footnote-recognition so far.
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"Interconnections" should be required reading for anyone going into technology!
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My dad worked with Radia at DEC back in the day! She’s a personal hero of mine
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Wait, aren't they imaginary personas?
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