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I’m with you on pair programming. It’s a form of coding by committee. How can you think with someone else constantly making suggestions? I once shooed a manager out of my office for doing that while I was trying to fix something that wa…

I’m with you on pair programming.
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Chris Fox

Chris Fox

·Dec 12, 2020

You're not supposed to be able to concentrate. Software development is for teams and people who want to concentrate are mentally ill.

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The industry is so sick.

I did three hours of that crap in 2009 and I quit my Microsoft job and burned that bridge forever the next morning.

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