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by caustic 17y ago
The article provides 10 reasons why pair programming might not work. Moreover, it says that these reasons are very common: 10. Most software managers... 9. Most software shops... 8. Most software shops... 7. Most software shops...
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by caustic 17y ago
You have spotted it. The whole Agile movement and its practices, like pair programming, are driven and promoted by consultants who make money out of it. EDIT Moreover, I am not sure whether the companies you mentioned really practice pair p
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by caustic 17y ago
Where are these people come from? Installing Eclipse is as easy as unpacking ZIP file. Unlike VisualStudio, whose installer is just slow and buggy piece of crap, which constantly breaks so hard, that you have to download a special tool to r
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by caustic 17y ago
They didn't mention Facebook. Should they?
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by caustic 17y ago
The story has sequel: The parable of the two programmers, continued http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1012623
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by caustic 17y ago
"Even when you are coding, you spend a lot of time testing what you have just coded, and realizing what you have just done does not work." This is not my case. Over years I developed a habit to write correct code at (almost) first attempt.
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by caustic 17y ago
I would like to see Hacker News data dump. Would it be possible?
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by caustic 17y ago
Amazing conciseness. Don't forget to check out lift web framework http://liftweb.net/ . It's written in Scala too and uses similar techniques.
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Ask HN: start on my own or negotiate with the employer?
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by caustic 18y ago
You need to change copyright year from 2008 to 2009.
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by caustic 18y ago
I don't care about downvotes. HN is just a great web site with great contents so that I hardly ever feel the need to downvote something.
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by caustic 18y ago
Y combinator in JavaScript: http://thraxil.org/users/anders/posts/2008/09/15/My-Own-Java...
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by caustic 18y ago
What would happen if I tried load testing loadimpact.com?
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by caustic 18y ago
It would be nice to see Yahoo does the same thing.
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by caustic 18y ago
What about Prolog? Why it's not in the list?
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by caustic 18y ago
What is your experience with tools and technologies besides .NET and Visual Studio? Can you compare fairly?
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by caustic 18y ago
As someone who works in a company producing agile project management software, I can confirm that the whole agile thing is surely a money-making machine and very lucrative market with plenty of competitors. The funny thing is that while our
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by caustic 18y ago
From my experience of working with both Java and .NET I can say that: the weakest part of the .NET technology stack is community, and the strongest part of the Java world is community which produced the huge pool of quality, free and open-s
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by caustic 18y ago
I bet PG would sign up for this program for Viaweb if he had to start it these days!
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by caustic 18y ago
From my experience I can tell that it's almost always possible to find better alternatives for Microsoft products and technologies. It seems like the only people who use MS stuff are those who don't care about what they have at hand.
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by caustic 18y ago
java virtual machine?
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by caustic 18y ago
Guys, could you please take a look at the project I am working on: http://keybr.com I thought it could be a good touch typing trainer web application.