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		gHosts on June 12, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Old guys, what do you miss about developme... Actually had an office with a door you could close and a window you could open to actually think in. And then walk down the corridor to the terminal room to turn thoughts into programs and/or ask the other guys or gals. Strangely enough there were more ladies around in those days. Miss that.

DrScump on June 12, 2019 [–]

  Actually had an office with a door you could close and a window you could open to actually think in.

Microsoft ran a radio recruitment ad campaign in SV in the late 80s with that exact theme! The narrator exclaimed how hirees would get "... an OFFICE! With a DOOR! That you can CLOSE! So you can THINK!"

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