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Alex B. • Edited

Amen! I've been coding for more than 15 years. Back then you HAD to be a jack of all trade.. and don't forget, GitHub didn't exist, stackoverflow neither, we learned to code by reverse engineering code, you know, the hard way!

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George Jempty

Hell we didn't have an easy to use Javascript debugger unless you include Venkman, ugh. To solve an issue with math going awry in a grid in 2001, I kept moving an alert (no console either) further and further along in the code until I pin-pointed it: passing values beginning with 0 to parseInt. I don't even know about documentation, but I did have the one and only good book on Javascript at the time, Flanagan's Definitive Guide. Nevertheless, that's a half week of my life I'll never get back.