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It depends on the people. Dean and Ghemawat at Google are so used to coding together that Wired wrote about them as if they are one person (hence hyphenated dou
by jll29 5y ago
It depends on the people. Dean and Ghemawat at Google are so used to coding together that Wired wrote about them as if they are one person (hence hyphenated double name in the title): https://www.wired.com/dean-and-ghemawat/ https://www.wired.com/dean-and-ghemawat/
I can see where the author is coming from, but I have also had a few good pair programming sessions.
Pair programming where one is more of a mentee instead of a reviewer should be useful to upskill the mentee so the pair are at more similar levels.
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- pyb 5y agoIndeed. In fact, following OP's logic gets absurd really fast : "Dean and Ghemawat would have been twice as productive if they'd worked each on their own! What a waste for the world !"
- falcolas 5y ago> It depends on the people. Sounds like an exception, not the rule. At least, I've never seen two people who coded together all the time. Not in the 20 years I've been a software developer (in both startups and in BigCorpInc).