[HN Gopher] Grace Hopper on Late Night with David Letterman (1986)
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       Grace Hopper on Late Night with David Letterman (1986)
        
       Author : 11thEarlOfMar
       Score  : 55 points
       Date   : 2023-03-21 21:10 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.youtube.com)
        
       | robg wrote:
       | Brilliant find, throws in the reference to DEC, where she had
       | just joined.
        
       | silisili wrote:
       | Wow, I'd never seen her speak before. 79 years old and sharp as a
       | tack here. Her memory and comebacks are better/faster than mine
       | are at half her age!
        
         | 72727848426 wrote:
         | [flagged]
        
           | khazhoux wrote:
           | If you find yourself (1) creating a throwaway account, (2)
           | for a low-effort joke, (3) targeting the current
           | President.... maybe it wasn't in the spirit of Hacker News?
        
         | JshWright wrote:
         | "How did you know so much about computers?"
         | 
         | "I didn't... it was the first one."
        
       | tinglymintyfrsh wrote:
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug
        
       | 11thEarlOfMar wrote:
       | "... between here and the satellite there are a very large number
       | of nanoseconds."
        
       | jkaptur wrote:
       | Does anyone know if her star earrings are a reference to her
       | rank? Or is it just a coincidence?
        
         | kodah wrote:
         | That would be very against military tradition, so I doubt it.
        
       | tinglymintyfrsh wrote:
       | "President Carter took [a boat to work] away."
       | 
       | Wow, she enlisted at 37 in 1944. That's impressive.
        
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