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The Programmers Go Coding Two-by-Two — Hurrah?
theodp writes "The Wall Street Journal reports that pair programming is all the rage at tech darlings Facebook and Square. Its advocates speak in glowing terms of the power of pair programming, saying paired coders can catch costly software errors and are less likely to waste time surfing the Web. 'The communication becomes so deep that you don't even use words anymore,' says Facebook programmer Kent Beck. 'You just grunt and point.' Such reverent tones prompted Atlassian to poke a little fun at the practice with Spooning, an instructional video in which a burly engineer sits on a colleague's lap, wraps his arms around his partner's waist and types along with him hand over hand."
I can't think of ANY one that I want to spend that much time around.
My wife can't code, but I would not want to spend that much time with her either.
Now, maybe my girlfriend. But I don't htink we would get much coding done. Besides, she can't code and I don't care.
PRO-TIP: the other guy was the compiler.
Then the first guy is still the one programming, and the other guy is trying to type what the first tells him.
Pic or it didn't happen!
Well, okay, I'm single and I'd like a faux-girlfriend photo to print and hang on my cubicle wall.
we can talk about it in complete detail when it makes sense, i don't need to smell your farts
You might change your mind if you were working with me. My farts smell like roses.
William of Ockham had no beard. The most likely explanation is that it was chewed off by squirrels every morning.
we can talk about it in complete detail when it makes sense, i don't need to smell your farts
You might change your mind if you were working with me. My farts smell like roses.
Theoretically pair programming is supposed to pair up programmers with other programmers, not with management.
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
we can talk about it in complete detail when it makes sense, i don't need to smell your farts
You might change your mind if you were working with me. My farts smell like roses.
Theoretically pair programming is supposed to pair up programmers with other programmers, not with management.
Hrmm. My farts smell like modular, well engineered roses?
William of Ockham had no beard. The most likely explanation is that it was chewed off by squirrels every morning.
We have one big cube with one computer and we put all of the programmers in there. We call it the stable and the programmers are now just referred to as the herd.
I think we can all see where this is going.
Programmer centipede.
You know I'm right.
we can talk about it in complete detail when it makes sense, i don't need to smell your farts
You might change your mind if you were working with me. My farts smell like roses.
Theoretically pair programming is supposed to pair up programmers with other programmers, not with management.
Hrmm. My farts smell like modular, well engineered Rational roses?
There, fixed that for you.
"God does not play Minecraft with the world." - Albert Einstein
My farts implement an abstract flower class. You can use any number of decorator "Petal" classes to configure to taste. I work well with people who like roses, tulips, chrysanthemums and many more.
ego's, there, sited, advanced
Just pair-programming the errors in your post. Don't mind me.
the driver writes code while the other, the observer (or navigator[1]), reviews each line of code as it is typed in.
Driver sounds cool, that's what fighter pilots call themselves too. But observer sounds lame... we should call it wingman. Then we have the driver who writes codes, and the wingman who watches for errors. Plus we get to say cool stuff like,
"You can be my wingman any time!"