>People are free to draw inferences about how it would be to pair with this programmer and why they are rarely paired.
you could. but there's not much to work with. could be helpful but "too valuable" to be a mentor compared to a director or pitching sales or doing conferences. Could be overly pompous and makes things worse. Could simply be office culture and pair programming for more than 15 minutes isn't a thing (like all my previous jobs).
All are extreme assumptions that aren't productive to talk about. Personally: I don't know if I'd want to be in those cultures that enforced pair programming X times a week, but I wouldn't mind , say, a day a month where I could shadow a lead or vice versa and get some intimite knowledge, be it in correcting some pitfalls in my coding or seeing how a more experienced mind ticks. But the chance hasn't come up yet.
I'm rarely paired because pair programming just isn't something we do in the company outside of just helping people with their little issues. It's not an encouraged practice. There's nothing deep about it. It sounds like you're trying to insinuate something negative about me.
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Yes, that is what was written. Would you like to say something about it?
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Please don't cross into personal attack.
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>I think the quote stands alone.
I disagree.
>People are free to draw inferences about how it would be to pair with this programmer and why they are rarely paired.
you could. but there's not much to work with. could be helpful but "too valuable" to be a mentor compared to a director or pitching sales or doing conferences. Could be overly pompous and makes things worse. Could simply be office culture and pair programming for more than 15 minutes isn't a thing (like all my previous jobs).
All are extreme assumptions that aren't productive to talk about. Personally: I don't know if I'd want to be in those cultures that enforced pair programming X times a week, but I wouldn't mind , say, a day a month where I could shadow a lead or vice versa and get some intimite knowledge, be it in correcting some pitfalls in my coding or seeing how a more experienced mind ticks. But the chance hasn't come up yet.
I'm rarely paired because pair programming just isn't something we do in the company outside of just helping people with their little issues. It's not an encouraged practice. There's nothing deep about it. It sounds like you're trying to insinuate something negative about me.
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Just say whatever point it is you are trying to make instead of making people guess
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