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There's a good comment from account jrd259, who worked with Andre, in the previous HN thread about this article (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18415231 h
by i_am_proteus 3y ago
There's a good comment from account jrd259, who worked with Andre, in the previous HN thread about this article (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18415231 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18415231). It relates the importance of a private work space with large desks and no notifications.
- sssilver 3y agoThis comment really deserves more attention.
- Multicomp 3y agoAgreed, here's the quoted copy/paste for those scrolling by: > Former Multician here. Andre was super-smart, but it is perhaps also relevant that even the most junior developers (as I was then) had quiet private space to work with large desks. All design was done offline. Multics terminals were like type-writers (although video did show up near the end), hence no stream of popups. The environment both allowed for and demanded focus and concentration. This is no longer so.