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NYTimes Obituary for Ada Lovelace

35 points by heavi5ide 9y ago

nukeop 9y ago
Politics on Hacker News usually gets flagged.
- asaph 9y ago
  This is political? Please explain.
  - dragonwriter 9y ago
    Adding new historical obituaries specifically to address the issue that those other than White men were historically ignored in that section of the paper certainly seems at least related to a currently active area of identity politics. Not that I think the comment on politics usually getting flagged was useful or necessarily accurate.
    - nukeop 9y ago
      Most people, me included, come to Hacker News for their tech-related news specifically because they don't want to see these kinds of useless, clickbaity, virtue signalling pieces.
      - and0 9y ago
        I enjoy articles like these, personally.
      - wyldfire 9y ago
        It's certainly not clickbait by any convention that I know that term. It's only useless to those of us who already knew about Lovelace's contributions. But, like many reposted articles, I'm content to let them lie for the sake of other HNers who haven't seen it yet.
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      - aplummer 9y ago
        > Most people, me included Looks like we’ve all hit the root issue. I enjoyed the article.
- wyldfire 9y ago
  But this isn't very political, is it? An influential individual in computing gets modern recognition. Just because NYT article says that obituaries were "dominated by white men" doesn't make this political content IMO. In any case, we don't need to be dogmatic about "rules" like the ones governing political content.
Cenk 9y ago
Some background on this: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/08/insider/overlooked-obituary.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/08/insider/overlooked-obitua... On the topic of NYT obits, there’s a really great episode of the Longform podcast with NTY’s senior obituary writer Margalit Fox: https://longform.org/posts/longform-podcast-43-margalit-fox https://longform.org/posts/longform-podcast-43-margalit-fox
londons_explore 9y ago
Unclear from the title, but this is a 100 plus years later obituary rather than something written at the time.

35 points by heavi5ide 9y ago

nukeop 9y ago

Politics on Hacker News usually gets flagged.

asaph 9y ago
This is political? Please explain.
- dragonwriter 9y ago
  Adding new historical obituaries specifically to address the issue that those other than White men were historically ignored in that section of the paper certainly seems at least related to a currently active area of identity politics. Not that I think the comment on politics usually getting flagged was useful or necessarily accurate.
  - nukeop 9y ago
    Most people, me included, come to Hacker News for their tech-related news specifically because they don't want to see these kinds of useless, clickbaity, virtue signalling pieces.
    - and0 9y ago
      I enjoy articles like these, personally.
    - wyldfire 9y ago
      It's certainly not clickbait by any convention that I know that term. It's only useless to those of us who already knew about Lovelace's contributions. But, like many reposted articles, I'm content to let them lie for the sake of other HNers who haven't seen it yet.
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    - aplummer 9y ago
      > Most people, me included Looks like we’ve all hit the root issue. I enjoyed the article.
wyldfire 9y ago
But this isn't very political, is it? An influential individual in computing gets modern recognition. Just because NYT article says that obituaries were "dominated by white men" doesn't make this political content IMO. In any case, we don't need to be dogmatic about "rules" like the ones governing political content.

Cenk 9y ago

Some background on this: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/08/insider/overlooked-obituary.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/08/insider/overlooked-obitua... On the topic of NYT obits, there’s a really great episode of the Longform podcast with NTY’s senior obituary writer Margalit Fox: https://longform.org/posts/longform-podcast-43-margalit-fox https://longform.org/posts/longform-podcast-43-margalit-fox

londons_explore 9y ago

Unclear from the title, but this is a 100 plus years later obituary rather than something written at the time.