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My grandmom was a programmer on a university mainframe in the 50s and learned haskell in her 90s
by oh_sigh 6y ago
My grandmom was a programmer on a university mainframe in the 50s and learned haskell in her 90s
- gambiting 6y agoGreat. 99.999999999% grandmothers weren't.
- bigiain 6y agoAnd let face it, 99.999999999% of the pedantic privacy-performative Hackernews posters will also browse the web exclusively in Chrome while logged in to Youtube (and Facebook and Twitter and and and)...
- oh_sigh 6y agoWell if that's the standard, it's also true that 99.999999999% of people haven't programmed mainframes in the 50s and learned haskell in the 90s, so to avoid redundancy we can just say people instead of parents and grandparents.
- TedDoesntTalk 6y agoMy grandma programmed an arduino with stepper motors to change her Depends adult diapers. It does not yet auto-detect wet diapers but that’s next on the road map.