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The Greatest Machine Never Built
mikejuk writes "John Graham-Cumming is the leading light behind a project to actually build the analytical engine dreamed of by Charles Babbage. There is a tendency to think that everything that Babbage thought up was little more than a calculating machine, but as the video makes 100% clear the analytical engine was a real computer that could run programs. From the article: 'Of course Ada Lovelace was the first programmer, but more importantly her work with Babbage took the analytical engine from the realms of mathematical table construction into the wider world of non-mathematical programming. Her notes indicate that had the machine been built there is no question that it would have been exploited just as we use silicon-based machines today.
To see the machine built and running programs would be the final proof that Babbage really did invent the general purpose computer in the age of the steam engine.'"
Roflwaffles bitter much? Sounds like you lost a job to a woman and your baby mama has your checks for child support. I know plenty of female programmers who are brilliant and alot of the time moreso than I.
Wow, somebody really needs to get laid.
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
You are not a talented computer programmer. You are not well read about computing. You haven't met many good computer programmers, and if you had you'd have met talented female programmers.
I'm not a talented programmer, but I can at least go to Wikipedia and find a list of female programmes who got into the history books.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_computing#Timeline_of_women_in_computing
You say women don't know computers. Women are, believe it or not, Turing compatible with men.
Been there, done that. It's not worth it. Men like you just need to stop making excuses for females. Maybe you should go get laid. You can come back when both your heart and your bank account are broken.
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Judging from your comment, I'm not surprised that she left you.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
What you call 'failure to make practical use of the theoretical work' - I call market at the time deciding that the spending on these programs was not worth the effort.
People are free to dissent, I suppose you'd impose your world view on them, forcing them to do as you please rather than what they believed was in their best interest, rightly or wrongly from you POV, from their POV it was their freedom, and freedom trumps anything else, AFAIC.
The wars, by the way, were caused by governments, not by individual entrepreneurs, neither then, nor today. I take my chances with free market, at least it is not going to push the world into another war.
You can't handle the truth.