by carlos-menezes on 4/16/25, 6:58 AM with 2 comments
by miles on 4/16/25, 7:27 AM
2022, 1482 points, 593 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33330864
2018, 814 points, 403 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17787275
by bradley13 on 4/16/25, 9:07 AM
My dad was born at about the same time, but came into programming indirectly: he was an accountant, the company got a computer (Honeywell, maybe?), and he was told to figure out how to use it. So he was purely self-taught.
As a teen (so, in the mid-70s) I remember going in after hours to write programs with him, finding primes, perfect numbers and such. Fun times...