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I thought early Twitter took off in part with help from XP? My understanding was that Jack poached a lot of XP practitioners away from Pivotal Labs to help bui
by hyggetrold 3y ago
I thought early Twitter took off in part with help from XP?
My understanding was that Jack poached a lot of XP practitioners away from Pivotal Labs to help build both Twitter and Square?
- sandofsky 3y agoI had a long post written, and I've decided that it probably belongs in a blog post rather than a random Hacker News comment, so I deleted it. But I'll just say no, Twitter is absolutely not an XP success story.
- hyggetrold 3y agoMakes sense. Am I reading into your response if I assume you are not a fan of XP?
- sandofsky 3y agoThere are a handful of interesting ideas wrapped in a self-help program. For example, the idea of testing can be useful, while rules like “all code should have tests,” and “you should always write tests first,” are just silly. I’m sure it’s worked for some people on some projects, but generalizing that to all software development is just charlatanism.