MakunaHatataJul 11, 2023

She wrote all this code by hand to take humanity to the Moon

https://lemmy.world/post/1354811

She wrote all this code by hand to take humanity to the Moon - LemmyWorld

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

Show threadphareousJul 11, 2023
She didn’t write all of that, she had a team of programmers working under her
Show threadAkulagr
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.
Jul 11, 2023 at 9:55pmWeb
Show threadRachelhazideasJul 12, 2023

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.