On Mar 20, 2006, at 9:51 PM, Alex Martelli wrote:
While what *I* want, ideally, is pair programming -- somebody sitting
right at my side, alternating with me in controlling keyboard and
mouse,
and in verbalizing what he or she is coding -- that's part of the huge
productivity boost I
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Alex Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Unfortunately, I entirely understand _why_ most software development
firms prefer face-to-face employees: when I found myself, back when I
was a
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 00:08:02 GMT,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron Laird) wrote:
Briefly, remote collaboration works for me. I work on
customer premises part of the year, and, while there are
multipliers, my estimate is that they're far closer to
one than four. Sometimes they're less than one--I
Dan Sommers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Design meetings and similar almost have to be face to face.
Agreed.
OTOH, once the design is set, leave me alone and let me
simulate it or code it, and maybe even get it past the first
round of testing and tweaking/fixing. The last thing I want
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote:
And even if I'm wrong, and a Joe Supercoder I've never met
works best with 3 days a week of solo effort, 3 days of solo coding plus
2 of strong in-person interaction is NOT the same thing as, say, 3
_weeks_ of solo coding
