Putting the I back in IDE
If you walked into an office and saw them using 1984 equipment — fax machines, landlines and Rolodexes — you'd think the company is hopelessly behind times.<p>Jane Street is a cutting-edge technology corporation, but their internal tools use 80*25 text-mode UIs just like the ones you'd find on a 1984 IBM PC/AT.<p>It's not the company's fault: we developers are stuck in the tar pit of an unfortunate local maximum with all these tools built around text streams printed into a window that emulates a late '70s terminal.