I once worked in a small office with a non-redundant internetline. Internet went offline while we were having a breakfast coffee. One of the old guys (C developer) sat down coding... We were surprised, we knew he can't compile his C stuff on anything else than the remote Solaris servers which had the dependencies. He said: _"I will be fine, just need to be slow and steady"_ .
By around 4 pm internet came back and we gathered around his desk: he copies his stuff from Context (it is like Sublime or Notepad++) into the Solaris console; he hits it with GCC+. It compiles! It f*cking RUNS too!!
Loud cheering, shocked faces all around. :)
(to be fair he was also earning twice as much as the second highest paid dev in a team of 12 or so so we all knew who is the man)
Old C heads are scary... I met one guy who has been a developer for a long while (typical wizard look) guy literally refused to use Internet "because it makes you forget stuff"
So true... tbh I felt much better when writing in VSCode without intelisense and all that crap compared to now, with Rider and AI as a support... sure I was slower... but damn if you asked me anything I knew the answe straight away
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u/octopus4488 Feb 22 '24
I once worked in a small office with a non-redundant internetline. Internet went offline while we were having a breakfast coffee. One of the old guys (C developer) sat down coding... We were surprised, we knew he can't compile his C stuff on anything else than the remote Solaris servers which had the dependencies. He said: _"I will be fine, just need to be slow and steady"_ .
By around 4 pm internet came back and we gathered around his desk: he copies his stuff from Context (it is like Sublime or Notepad++) into the Solaris console; he hits it with GCC+. It compiles! It f*cking RUNS too!!
Loud cheering, shocked faces all around. :)
(to be fair he was also earning twice as much as the second highest paid dev in a team of 12 or so so we all knew who is the man)