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You got a glimpse of what times were like before internet :) In my early programming years, to lookup a syntax we needed to
* scavage through any documentation that came with the language
* make phone call to a geeky friend or an educated adult
* get on our bikes and tool down to the library and hope that we could find the answer in a book.
* buy a reference guide that most of us couldn't afford
* write a letter to the author of the language, stamp it and drop it in the nearest mailbox and hope for an answer within a couple of days or weeks...
* try and err -
@TerriToniAX you sir deserve a hell of respect.
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It changed my life, really. 😁
This hurricane fucking sucks. My power was out nearly all day today. It went out at 6ish this morning, and didn't come back on until 4-5ish in the afternoon.
I was coding on my laptop, trying to reproduce the sampling procedures we talked about in AP stats (hoping that I'd better understand the material if I could connect it to stuff I was doing in another class), and there was a piece of syntax I had forgotten over the summer, and it irritated the hell out of me that I couldn't just Google the answer.
Eventually I just drove to a Starbucks and hung out there for about an hour or two till the power came back on. I was terrified the power would just go out again before I got back home.
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