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I was standing outside the gates of Crawford Generating Station, when I realized that no matter what was wrong, when I was done with my visit, they were going to be happy. It was that moment of self actualization that doesn't often come around.

Looking back in retrospect I see how dead nuts simple everything was back then, and how much more productive a programmer could be, even with the slow as snot hardware, and without GIT. Programming has gone far downhill since then, as we try to push everything through the internet to an interface we don't control. Back then, you knew your display routines would work, and exactly how things would be seen.



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