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vjvjvjvjghv 32 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Win16 Memory Management

I think programming often was easier back then. You didn’t have to know about 120 AWS services or security issues. The world was pretty small and you could mostly understand all details of the system you worked on. But it was more tedious for sure.

icedchai 31 days ago [–]

It was. I learned so much by reading books and computer magazines. Now we have layers of layers of cruft to wade through.

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