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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."
PRO-TIP: the other guy was the compiler.
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.
I think we can all see where this is going.
Programmer centipede.
You know I'm right.
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.
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!"