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Submission + - Margret Hamilton, Director Working on the Apollo Guidence Computer, Passes Away

BrendaEM writes: From Wikipedia: Margaret Hamilton (née Heafield; August 17, 1936 – September 30, 2026) was an American computer scientist. She directed the Software Engineering Division at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, where she led the development of the on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo Guidance Computer for the Apollo program. She later founded two software companies, Higher Order Software in 1976 and Hamilton Technologies in 1986, both in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Comment Missed the Compact Mode (Score 1) 163

Basically, Mozilla was chasing the newness of tablets like a dog chasing squirrels, when the took out the compact mode, and replaced it with Touch mode. I don't know why they couldn't have left both in. Anyway, thank you Mozilla for eventually doing the right thing. Perhaps someday, we will really have privacy, and maybe even we will have Scrapbook working, just like it was, because it was the most useful web-research tool ever made, and that is why Mozilla tried and failed to copy it with Pocket.

Comment We should be sensible about lighting (Score 1) 113

No crime happens in the day, right? Not exactly. Letting people see the stars and the their place in everything is just not scientists--it's for all people. Just because we live in cities it doesn't mean that we have to deprive ourselves of part of our natural existence--only because manufactures and people want to install thoughtless light fixtures, that light up the sky. Living in an age where humans are running out of sources of energy sources--should we just waste it?

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