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Agreed. It's a great way to share reddit links.
by nirvdrum 15y ago
Agreed. It's a great way to share reddit links.
- defrost 15y agoI have to chuckle at this. I was an admin in a freenode channel at the time reddit (the one page lisp version) launched. It initially boomed as it was a great way to share IRC links . . .
- _delirium 15y agoI find more the opposite; RL chat is used for fluffy taking-a-break type stuff (take off a few minutes to go the coffee machine and talk about your weekend), while real work starts once everyone gets back to their desk and puts on headphones, using IRC or IM as a unobtrusive backchannel to discuss the stuff we're working on. Works nicely with collaborative document writing in Google Docs as well. I've tried an "everyone in the same room" approach to collaborative document writing a few times, and that was a disaster for >2 people; online just works much better. Though IRL can sometimes work if it's exactly two people collaborating, who work well together, sharing one keyboard in the style of Extreme Programming (whether on code or prose).