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I often would rather go home from work an hour earlier than sit and eat lunch for an hour. It's as simple as that, really.
Actually no, it's not "as simple as that" when everyone except you doesn't take lunch hour and schedules meetings at noon. We have a right to the lunch hour.
> A key speedup technique AoE used was realized during discussions I had with iD software programmer and optimization guru Michael Abrash over lunch at Tia's Mexican Restaurant in Mesquite, TX. How many freeform interactions like this did we lose because of the Internet's illusion of being connected?
I had plenty of online conversations on Usenet, IRC and email with guys like Abrash and Jez San etc. It was a much smaller community back then and there was no gatekeeping -- everyone's contact info was out there and inbox zero was still achievable.
Those were also the days when, according to a famous interview with the same devs: > The general argument is that if you know you are going to need to release a patch, then you shouldn't be shipping the game in the first place.