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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

In the Pulitzer prize-winning book "The Soul of a New Machine", Tracy Kidder writes about a microcode programmer having to deal with timing in nanoseconds. One day his desk was empty and there was a note on the monitor saying that he was going to live in a commune, and no longer deal with any duration shorter than a season.