joshsusser

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by joshsusser 13y ago
"It's never too late to have a happy childhood." - Tom Robbins
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by joshsusser 14y ago
Of course I would. That's part of managing.
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by joshsusser 14y ago
You have just told me why I absolutely should not hire you, at least while you have that attitude. Someone who cannot respond positively to negative feedback is what we call "unmanageable". Nobody is perfect, so nobody can do a job perfectl
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by joshsusser 15y ago
How about Spore.js? It's a nice contraction of SproutCore, and doesn't sound as silly as the spoonerism KrautSpore :)
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by joshsusser 15y ago
If they are such experts, how would they not be aware of waterfall? Either they are idiots who have no clue about software development methodology, or they are just lying (either to their customers or themselves). It's not like it's hard to
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by joshsusser 15y ago
One of my favorite Alan Kay quotes: "Make simple things simple, and complex things possible." And the Albert Einstein quote everyone mangles: "A scientific theorem should be as simple as possible, but not simpler." It's a matter of finding
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by joshsusser 15y ago
I agree. Look at nginx vs apache - competition with nginx has done a lot to improve apache. Merb did more to improve Rails than anything else has. New projects with different design centers give you the flexibility to try out approaches tha
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by joshsusser 15y ago
This is the seriously awesome talk Coda Hale gave at GitHub's CodeConf in April, reprised at Pivotal Labs in June. The live video isn't the best quality, but the quality of the talk more than makes up for it. And the slides and audio are ju
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by joshsusser 16y ago
Switching sides is good when you're sitting side-by-side. But I haven't noticed that there's enough neck twisting in the tete-a-tete configuration for that to be an issue.
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Mirrored display face-to-face pair programming setup(pivotallabs.com)
59 points by joshsusser 16y ago|24 comments
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by joshsusser 16y ago
That's correct. We just let them use the space; we don't code with them.