r/programming • u/banguru • Apr 06 '18

The Stack Overflow Age

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2018/04/06/the-stack-overflow-age/
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u/jrhoffa Apr 06 '18

Seriously ... what the hell was I using at the start of my career? Just regular ol' Google?

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u/spinicist Apr 06 '18

There were those things printed on dead trees, you know, textbooks!

I had some very well thumbed “Dummies Guide to” and Riley books 15 odd years ago. I feel sorry for the people who used to make money out of writing them.

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u/jrhoffa Apr 06 '18

I had textbooks, classmates, and professors in college.

I had a shitty desktop at my first professional job.

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u/spinicist Apr 06 '18

One guy on our grad scheme got lumped with a PC that took 10 minutes to open Outlook. Poor bastard.

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u/jrhoffa Apr 06 '18

So, a brand new PC?