[HN Gopher] A job at Yale in the 1960s set Susan Eggers on a pat...
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       A job at Yale in the 1960s set Susan Eggers on a path in computer
       science
        
       Author : jacquesm
       Score  : 68 points
       Date   : 2020-09-15 21:30 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (egc.yale.edu)
        
       | rhacker wrote:
       | I wonder if they could have written this a bit more self
       | trajectory than spoon feed a baby to greatness. They don't write
       | articles like this for men.
        
         | papeda wrote:
         | I'm confused, what part of her story involves "spoon
         | feed[ing]"?
        
       | emmelaich wrote:
       | I love this...
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       | > _Almost immediately after she started to talk, they began to
       | speak up, so she sprayed them with water and they never cut her
       | off again._
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       | No point in responding with pleas to straight up rudeness.
        
       | _wldu wrote:
       | I think the Einstein picture is from the campus of Georgia Tech.
        
       | andrewflnr wrote:
       | She helped invent hyperthreading. How have I not heard of her
       | before? https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~eggers/
        
       | ncmncm wrote:
       | tl;dr Invented hyperthreading, got the Eckert-Mauchly award in
       | 2018.
        
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