GitHub @github.com · 2d 57 years ago today, humans first landed on the Moon. The source code that helped get them there? It’s on GitHub. Margaret Hamilton led the MIT team responsible for Apollo’s onboard flight software. (Image credit: Draper Laboratory; restoration by Adam Cuerden, via Wikimedia Commons.)
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So many WOMEN made it a success but got no recognition from the MEN. Most likely they took every ounce of credit.
I think I’m in love 🥰
It was all MIT assembler code. The computer had 36,000 bytes of ROM and 2000 bytes of RAM, running at 100k instructions per second. It was a 1cu.ft. box. apollo11space.com/the-apollo-g...
Our finest mathematicians are women. It’s good they’re wired slightly different. Solutions appear when approached from slightly different angles.
Technology has come a long way.
Soooo tall.
Part of the history that this current administration is trying to wipe out. Any accomplishments made by women or black folks.
I was a Junior in college earning my first degree.
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TIL the Wicked Witch of the West wrote the Apollo code. "I'll get you my pretty, and your little bugs too!"
talk about a wicked commute, tho 🙃
Also, the computing power in the landing computer was equivalent to the cryptography chip in your credit card
Wow. @github.com you should be so happy that several of your followers have successfully read past the facts to create the incorrect notion that Margaret Hamilton of Nasa fame is the same as Margaret Hamilton from Hollywood (and born decades prior). WTG!
Imagine the pressure of writing and testing software that would literally and very publicly kill people if you made a mistake.
Unlike GitHub her products stood the test of time.
The Apollo Guidance Computer software eventually grew to about 145,000 lines of code. 👀 Explore the original Apollo 11 guidance software for the Command and Lunar Modules. 🌕 github.com/chrislgarry/...
How'd she get her hands on my submittal for college finals in COBOL 101?
Nowadays a $8 push drive can store that stack of data Lol
"The source code that helped get them there? It’s on GitHub." Oh yeah? Link or it didn't happen! To be clear: This is a joke!
She maybe looks 22
Legit!
I remember how funny it was to read in the code that they used the metric system to bring humans to the Moon.
It’s over when I get enough charisma and/or capital to get software engineers to work for me. My visions must be manifest.
I've seen this before but assumed her to be the actress. Nope, she was not. The main thing I missed was that she did her work in the mid 50s when the movie was released in 1939, so the work was done on that in the mid 30s. Good to know,
DEI made this country great.
I’d like to thank all of the incels in this thread for volunteering for my blocked list.
I’m getting old Ppl starting to look like kids to me lol
This is my personal favorite date, specifically for the reason we landed on the moon, and I would like to thank Margaret for all her contributions!
Beautiful ❤️❤️
Understanding Women, vol 1-20 😜
Love this pic!
Lunar Lander! I played that! 😉
What happened after this momentous event?! I feel we have regressed since then maybe a slight glitch with the Hadron Collider but then the whole god damn planet has dumbed down to Trump level proportions 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Margaret Hamilton??
Brilliant
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11 years ago, WikiSpills crawled out of the primordial slime and reared it's head.
And of course, nothing is quite so permanent as a temporary fix.
Once again the women get no credit.
Margaret Hamilton was the wicked witch of the West in the Wizard of Oz. She was quite versatile. 😁
To think they'd burnt her at stake back in the days
The only time my dad let me stay up real late to watch it on tv,,, and school wasn't even in.
Better times ….
She was great in The Wizard of Oz too! jk
I thought those were tRump's LIES.
Women are just better. Period. What do men do besides foul, cheat and eat hot chip
And we still have incels in the community..
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Makes it even more impressive knowing she used zero AI or internet assistance. A truly remarkable feat
I saw the "kid COBOL program", an invoicing program that, if printed, was tall as a kid. To go to the Moon we needed a "woman COBOL program", it seems.
Amazing feat. We still struggle with this goal today, even with all our modern resources the statistics speak for themselves on how difficult this is - even without keep humans alive: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
Amy Farrah Fowler look. Brains doesn’t need all the crap.
EVERYTIME I see this photo, I don't know WTF is wrong with me, I can SMELL it. It smells like pencil shavings, wool, paper, cigarette smoke, light armpit and Halston parfum. With a little bit of dark liquor mixed in somewhere. AND I DON'T KNOW WHY.
She killed it as The wicked witch of the west 30 years earlier!
And it only took 57 years to get hers and other women's names on the list of public credits. 🙄
I'll get you and your little LEM too.
Written in AGC Assembly Language, btw.
With all due respect, she looks exactly as she should, a world-class geek who dresses badly. Genius does. Excellent work on what she and her team achieved. Maybe less sensible shoes, just saying.
Found it!
She brings all the Fortran boys to the yard and Cobol toooo
Is this true? The Wicked Witch of The West?
Huh. Not a Christian white male.
NASA’s first software engineer: Margaret Hamilton - Matt Porter & Margaret Hamilton: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYCZ...
The Woman Who Put Us in Space | Outlier The Story of Katherine Johnson | Full Documentary: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZRE...
in her own words: www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1Tu...
Proper programming! 😁
The man who wrote the code for the lunar lander wrote a fascinating book about it. "Sunburst and Luminary: An Apollo Memoir" by Don Eyles. Its an amazing read.
57 years ago today July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong was the first human to step on the moon. His safety was guaranteed by the master seamstresses of ILC, Dover who were responsible for crafting his shoes and spacesuit. Women’s work indeed. floridapress.org/news/the-wom...
It's on GitHub being fed into microslop's garbage agent. Fuck you!
Was she a racist??
Let’s use code to salvage our earth and fix it before it becomes like the moon or mars! Invest in reforestation and climate adaptation GitHub. Invest in climate information and in clean energy against the deadly fossil fuel economy of fires and floods. Every fraction of a degree matters 💚🌎✌️
Not sure where all these Wicked Witch references come from, she seems nice looking in the photo.
Well, she had experience with flying monkeys, so I suppose the next step was a moon landing,
You know what is interesting..... didnt need AI for that..... because its built off humans. Humans are the intelligent species.
In the words of our lady Beyonce "Who run the world? GIRLS!"
Musta been a lot of "broom to the moon" jokes during her tenure. Doesn't take away from her achievements, though!
Look at the length of that code. Inflated, vibe coded hullabaloo.
Margaret Hamilton is a witch !
She was instrumental in … … Defying Gravity! 🎶
At first glance I thought this might a stack of guides on how to understand women… Vol.1
@lusaimon.com this gave me a bit of a warm glow
The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) used the metric system for its calculations during the computer-controlled phases of Apollo 11's descent to the surface of the Moon. ukma.org.uk/why-metric/m...
That's nothing omg
Wow. A lady of many talents! 😉
57 years later the US is run by moronic maga nutbags.
I remember my mom calling me to come inside to watch History being made. Thanks mom and I do remember!
intersting, thanks for sharing
Another woman for the ages to pi$$ off the Heritage Foundation troglodytes.
And she looks like a female Egon Spengler from Ghostbusters