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by jmbwell 409 days ago
It was pretty easy for orgs with affected systems to produce concrete examples for themselves. Maybe to everyone else it seemed vague, but for the people who had to deal with it, it was taken pretty seriously from top to bottom.

It was thankless work that is still glossed over and waved away today, but it was all a very big deal throughout the late 90s.

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> It was thankless work that is still glossed over and waved away today, but it was all a very big deal throughout the late 90s.

Mike Judge even made a movie about it! Office Space might be the most recognition turn of the millennium programmers will receive.