Posted on 08/21/2017 11:55:55 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I worked in data processing for nearly 30 years as a programmer/analyst. Best programmer I worked with was a self described farm girl from Iowa who taught herself to code. High IQ, but that was commonplace.
What set her apart was tenacity and a prodigious memory. She took care of the smallest detail, tested relentlessly and tracked down every bug. Even years later, if there was a question about some part of one of her programs, she would get a listing, flip immediately to the relevant section and start highlighting and scribbling notes, like it was just yesterday that she had been working on the program.
That post rocks.
She seems rather sexist.
She would be wrong. Men build kingdoms, but women build homes.
“built an app [about] lead poisoning because they saw that kids were dying in Flint, Michigan”
“ABOUT”?? What does it DO? Directing technology at ‘compassion’ is not the same as solving a problem.
Yeah, and Girls Who Code are envious of men’s pr*cks.....
Moreso, probably, of their “hanging chads”.
Bullcrap.
who is herself the mother of a two year old boy.....
Poor kid ... It'll really suck for him growing up with a psycho-witch for a mother.
who wrote the code to order pizza without human interaction?
Sounds like she may have had OCD.
OCD is hard to deal with but it makes for great programmers.
I have OCD, I count EVERYTHING, I can’t bring myself to leave ANYTHING to chance. If there is 1 chance in a billion a routine might fail then I have to improve it till I’m satisfied it will never fail.
Code I wrote in the late 70’s did not have to be modified for the Y2K problem as I took that into consideration...this was greatly appreciated by those still using the code.
My specialty is pattern recognition, I have mostly worked on gov projects.
I used to do consulting, sometimes I solved the problem while talking on the phone to the people that needed help....I made it clear up front that if I came up with a solution while we were discussing the problem I was to be paid. I got stiffed a few times. :-/
There are people walking around today with medical devices implanted in them that run code I wrote.... I really sweated over that code!! I created a test device to send data to simulate usage inside a patient....it ran at a much faster rate than a real-world test... It simulated several centuries of use and never had a single failure and it sent literally millions of bits of faulty data to the device.
I always insert a random string of characters inside a comment in my source code along with instructions on how to use that string to locate me, even decades later. A simple google search on the string brings up my contact info.
I still have all my old projects in encrypted form on several devices...just in case I need to fix something....the need has not yet arrived.
That graphic is funny because there is some truth to it.
I would rather hire twenty male compsci grads sight unseen than 20 female compsci grads with 4.0 GPA
Go to a dorm room with a few male computer geeks and you are likely to find them doing something like burning the plastic off of an IC using acid to get at the actual silicon. You would never see a bunch of girls doing this...unless they were being led by someone like Lady Ada ;-) she is the finest female computer geek I know. But I really don’t understand why she keeps a Pitt Bull as a house pet!?
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