[–] throwyourboat 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
It's called the "one drop" principle. If a woman or a black person contributed in any way, it becomes a "female accomplishment" or a "black accomplishment." Like with the movie Hidden Figures and the lunar landing, or how blacks built the White House according to Michelle Obama because they provided raw materials and did some unskilled manual labour.
[–] satisfyinghump ago
On top of only writing 1% of the code... not all code is created equal.
She did the equivalent with her code that like... a child does with crayons, trying to make a car pretty, after a team of men build it from the ground up.
The fact shes going with this... makes her an absolute bitch.
[–] anon44568821830 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
It wasn't even one percent. It was a quarter of one percent and no one knows if she actually wrote it or what it did
[–] Pointyball 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Being able to change the font color was very important to the algorythm.
[–] Acerphoon 0 points 13 points 13 points (+13|-0) ago (edited ago)
People will say that "lines of code written" isn't a good measure. - But even then, what did she do?
The algorithm wasn't developed by her, it was from a japanese team. She didn't really write anything good into the code, just the ability to change the color and font size of the bar.
She copied someone else's code.
What did she do? Why is she important?
Some will say: "She was the team leader" - But she wasn't. She was the leader of ONE of the many teams. - This was the leader: https://bhi.fas.harvard.edu/people/avi-loeb
So, again, what did she do? We now know that she:
- Didn't write much of the code.
- The stuff that she wrote, was only for the User Interface
- She copied someone else's code.
- She wasn't the leader of the project.
- The algorithm wasn't her idea.
So, what exactly does she get credit for? For being a member of the team? - I understand that, but then why don't the others?
https://github.com/achael/eht-imaging/commits?author=klbouman
Not insignificant IMO.
[–] vastrightwing 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Obviously you aren't that familiar with affirmative action.
[–] Someguy987 ago
She wrote the algorithm though. It's like saying that Beethoven shouldn't get credit for his symphonies because someone else played them, or Stanley Kubrick shouldn't get credit for making 2001 because someone else acted in it. It was a team effort headed by her, based off of her own theories.