• amrawr@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    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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      1 year ago

      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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            1 year ago

            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.