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m4r1k ◴[] No.43112034[source]
I once saw a talk from Brian Kernighan who made a joke about how in three weeks Ken Thompson wrote a text editor, the B compiler, and the skeleton for managing input/output files, which turned out to be UNIX. The joke was that nowadays we're a bit less efficient :-D
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xattt ◴[] No.43114120[source]
I’m wondering what the process was for the early UNIX developers to attain this level of productivity.

Did they treat this as a 9-5 effort, or did they go into a “goblin mode” just to get it done while neglecting other aspects of their lives?

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1. noisy_boy ◴[] No.43114283[source]
Genius level mind minus scrum/agile nonsense can help.
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2. hylaride ◴[] No.43120069[source]
Impossible! How can the product managers maintain control without the bureaucracy? /s