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- Dec 3, 2020
So is this hambeast still alive or what? the AE article has nothing after GG.
Western tech is going to shit, too bad the Japanese are no longer in the game like they were in the 80's, and that both the Chinese and Russia tech sectors are in shambles.
LMAO they feature any fat race grifter in that shithole.Bump after almost exactly four years, hell yeah.
"FreeBSDGirl" came to mind today when reading about the death of Lorinda Cherry, a woman who worked at the influential Bell Labs in the '70s, writing the ubiquitous CLI calculators "bc" and "dc" and laying the groundwork for what would become TeX, used to typeset complex mathematical equations, among other things.
Neither that obituary nor the Hacker News thread on the matter have any mention of her abusing drugs, torturing pets, or doxing people and trying to get her fired. Just her achievements and interactions with the wider tech community.
Huh. It's almost like it's totally possible for a woman to be widely respected and recognized for her excellence in the tech sphere if she has legitimate talent and doesn't act like an unlidded barrel of toxic waste.
Western tech is going to shit, too bad the Japanese are no longer in the game like they were in the 80's, and that both the Chinese and Russia tech sectors are in shambles.