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 o
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 c
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 w
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-
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
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
