• amrawr@lemm.ee
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    Okay I don’t have the time to research this, but if this is the reason Adafruit is called Adafruit then that is fucking sick

    • 404CameranotFound@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      It is indeed. It’s based off the founders online username “LadyAda” which was an homage to Ada Lovelace. The founder is Limor Fried, she’s pretty awesome.

          • dave@feddit.uk
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            Long shot. I also learnt Ada. York’s justification was that “nobody would know it already, so nobody’s got an advantage” :)

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              Our justification was that Ratheon and Lockheed Martin held recruitment seminars and actively wanted this language to programme their avionics and guidance systems.

              I learnt it but then did my industrial placement with the Red Cross working out ways to map land mine fields autonomously, because fuck the war machine.

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      Pretty sure the founder even goes by Lady Ada as an homage to Ada Lovelace so yes it seems likely.

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    This was like the first thing we learned in history of computers in university.

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    she understood that the analytical engine/mechanical computer could be used symbolically, way beyond the numerical calculations that babbage built it for.

    she foresaw how powerful that could be. when she was dying (of ovarian cancer), she said i would give all the days i have left for just three days a hundred years from now.

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    Another interesting tidbit is her father was Lord Byron, the famous poet. He actually abandoned her and her mom after birth. This made Ada become more math oriented since her mom wanted her to be independent and a logical thinker.