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1. Kit Redgrave 🈚️🏴☠️ (kitredgrave@socially.constructed.space)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2017 22:27:02 UTC Kit Redgrave 🈚️🏴☠️

   as it turns out, a lot of our technical problems were already solved ages ago. we just didn't really look back into the past :p

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   • Ꮢ๐ϲoᴄo Ⅿoԁｅm Ᏼaｓіliｓk (enkiv2@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2017 22:29:57 UTC Ꮢ๐ϲoᴄo Ⅿoԁｅm Ᏼaｓіliｓk

     @KitRedgrave
     I blame most of the problems of the tech industry on an insufficient respect for history.

     Huge painful flaws in major projects are solved in a handful of clever lines, if only the maintainer was aware of the paper from the 60s those lines are in. It happens over and over.

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   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2017 01:06:25 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     In science fiction, software archaeology is a thing. Maybe it already should be.
     
     "Wow, this is a tricky problem. I'll ask our librarian about it."