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RSS Bot@lemmy.bestiver.seMB to Hacker News@lemmy.bestiver.seEnglish · 8 hours ago

When I worked at Apple, I remember seeing code that was 15 years old

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When I worked at Apple, I remember seeing code that was 15 years old

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RSS Bot@lemmy.bestiver.seMB to Hacker News@lemmy.bestiver.seEnglish · 8 hours ago
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When I worked at Apple, I remember seeing code that was 15 years old. Every file had a comment at the top with the date and the author’s name. You’d open a file and read through it, sometimes touching a feature no one had touched in a decade. Everything felt very permanent, like

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    if anyone wants to read this without getting slimed by Musk:

    https://xcancel.com/sean_geiger/status/2089487682305216534

    • Luminous5481 "Enemy of the State"@anarchist.nexus
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      Also, if you don’t want to see any Twitter, Reddit, Github, YouTube, or other major social media site goig forward without a digital condom, check out LibRedirect. The only thing it doesn’t have a frontend for is Facebook.

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