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Re:My Experience Running Development at a Startup by jordanlev on Thursday October 06, 2016 @05:12PM (#12656159)
I'm unfamiliar with the "Tracer" concept. Can you provide an example of one of these you've built?

I'm specifically curious how it differs from a prototype... is it just a prototype of 1 feature in isolation with bare-bones design? Or some feature that is only triggered from an arcane terminal command?

Thanks

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Re:My Experience Running Development at a Startup by tobych on Thursday October 06, 2016 @06:02PM (#12656503)
Just chiming in here: in The Pragmatic Programmer it's called a "tracer bullet", not a "tracer". You'll do a lot better searching for discussions by using "tracer bullet".
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Re:My Experience Running Development at a Startup by jordanlev on Thursday October 06, 2016 @06:35PM (#12656711)
Okay, thanks. Just curious to hear some actual examples of this from people who've used the technique.
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