RE: circumstances.run/@davidgerardI'd like to tell you a story about a contributor who came to us at Mozilla, in my first 2-3 years working there. I never met them, don't know their name, and I still think about them a few times a year. They came to us with questions, as they were struggling to build Firefox on their computer, and they were getting errors that nobody had ever seen. And I don't mean "errors that were unfamiliar to our engineers", I mean "we can't figure out how or why our build system would emit that string."

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@mhoye That kind of reminds me of my childhood and my first computer. An AMD 386 based PC with Win 3.11, decommissioned by my secondary school and reserved for me by my computer science teacher. I was maybe 12 back then.Now, 30 years later, a software engineer going straight to 20 years of experience, owning privately multiple ThinkPads, professionally using two more. What a wild ride.

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