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Discussion on: 4 Things Developers Take for Granted That Used to Be Really Hard

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Steve Antonucci

Somehow I feel like intellisense (and maybe even Google? 😁) belongs on this list. Prior to that we had to buy, store, dig and sift through very large reference books in search of functions and their signatures. πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

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David Bock

I still have a shelf in my basement filled with the β€˜Inside Macintosh’ volumes. There are literally like 20 books. The legendary one was Vol. 6... I’ve seen smaller sets of encyclopedias!

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Steve Antonucci • Edited

LOL! I have a similar problem, still have lots of old books from the 80s and 90s. I have to just force myself to accept that they're just never going to be interesting to my kids and they'll never have any meaningful historical value, despite how hard I want either of those to be true. πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚