Ada Lovelace

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Post by rabid » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 9:05 AM UTC

Re: Ada Lovelace

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Post by edent » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 10:04 AM UTC

It's well worth reading some of the inspiring stories on "Finding Ada" - http://directory.findingada.com/stories/

Ada Lovelace day exists to celebrate the women — whether engineers, scientists, technologists or mathematicians — who have inspired you to become who you are today.

More info at http://findingada.com/

Re: Ada Lovelace

#3

Post by theneb » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 10:37 AM UTC

I presume the context of this post is that it's Ada's birthday? Is this a new HN trend? Karma for dead programmer birthdays? I don't dispute Ada's great contributions and example for women but I have to jump on the non-news bandwagon.

Re: Ada Lovelace

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Post by cstuder » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 10:40 AM UTC

theneb wrote: post #3

I presume the context of this post is that it's Ada's birthday? Is this a new HN trend? Karma for dead programmer birthdays? I don't dispute Ada's great contributions and example for women but I have to jump on the non-news bandwagon.

Google has an Ada-doodle which increases the visibility of her birthday: https://www.google.ch/

Re: Ada Lovelace

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Post by sublimit » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 12:34 PM UTC

theneb wrote: post #3

I presume the context of this post is that it's Ada's birthday? Is this a new HN trend? Karma for dead programmer birthdays? I don't dispute Ada's great contributions and example for women but I have to jump on the non-news bandwagon.

OP could at least have linked to an article about her, with some timely reason for why Lovelace should be mentioned on the front page of Hacker News. A Wikipedia page with no context is on par with "TIL about Ada Lovelace".