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I interned at Lucent in 2000 and had a desk / cube in this building: http://www.extropia.com/hacks/webcal/WCfacility.html http://www.extropia.com/hacks/webcal/
by rrdharan 4y ago
I interned at Lucent in 2000 and had a desk / cube in this building:
http://www.extropia.com/hacks/webcal/WCfacility.html http://www.extropia.com/hacks/webcal/WCfacility.html
It was my first “real” office job and I just assumed all office buildings were that grandiose! Only later did I realize how fortunate I was..
Anyway I occasionally visit it now as Bell Works and am glad it has found a second life - hopefully one that lasts at least as long as its first incarnation.
- roflyear 4y agoIt's kind of out in the boonies but well worth the visit. Awesome building.
- rrdharan 4y agop.s. I wrote that code in about a day, and then spent a month trying to figure out how to deploy it on the IBM-managed Windows NT IIS machines with only some ancient Perl available (5.005 maybe?) and no option to upgrade. IIRC it involved printf-over-email debugging where the IT folks would try and deploy it, email me the errors, I’d iterate and we’d repeat. Was a pretty valuable experience in some ways - good taste of enterprise computing realities…