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Solving problems together instead of finding the answer on Stack Overflow.


I mean, yes. But I would have killed for Stack Overflow in the 80s.


Actually had an office with a door you could close and a window you could open to actually think in.

And then walk down the corridor to the terminal room to turn thoughts into programs and/or ask the other guys or gals.

Strangely enough there were more ladies around in those days.

Miss that.


  Actually had an office with a door you could close and a window you could open to actually think in.
Microsoft ran a radio recruitment ad campaign in SV in the late 80s with that exact theme! The narrator exclaimed how hirees would get "... an OFFICE! With a DOOR! That you can CLOSE! So you can THINK!"




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