It’s oddly comforting to read the following line from DeWitt Clinton’s On Great Engineers, Part 3, from 2005:

Even in today’s recovering tech economy, every open engineering position at a healthy company will generate hundreds, even thousands, of emailed résumés.

From 2005! That’s 2009 – 2005 = 4 years ago!

Good to be reminded, I guess, that sometimes our memories are short and this has all happened before. And, somehow, we’re all still here.