Re:Pair.sh – Pairing Made Simple
by filleokus on Thursday May 30, 2019 @06:45PM
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Congrats on launching!
Some questions that perhaps could be clarified on the landing page:
How does it work? Is it screen sharing or more like VS Code Live? Does it work with all editors? What’s the edge over other standard screen sharing solutions?
And maybe it’s just me, but I think I use the term “pair programming” or something much more than just “pairing” (but perhaps that’s because the direct translation of pairing in Swedish essentially means mating)
Re:Pair.sh – Pairing Made Simple
by mmcclure on Thursday May 30, 2019 @06:49PM
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Is this is a potential replacement for Screenhero[1] (pair programming tool that was acquired and shut down by Slack)? If so, I'm very, very interested. I've been really surprised that nothing has jumped in to fill that niche, Slack included, so looking forward to seeing this come out of closed beta.
Re:Pair.sh – Pairing Made Simple
by cercatrova on Thursday May 30, 2019 @07:24PM
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Interestingly, Tuple[0] is a competitor to this site and directly references Screenhero. The creator, Ben Orenstein, is a podcast host on the Art of Product Podcast[1] along with Derick Reimer who created Drip.
Re:Pair.sh – Pairing Made Simple
by snazz on Thursday May 30, 2019 @07:14PM
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This highlights a very specific cross-section of the programming community that isn’t necessarily representative. Users of minority programming languages and tools such as editors are going to be significantly underrepresented due to network effects.
The results very well follow the “developer evangelist”/cargo-culting and “underpaid enterprise code monkey” groups, however.
Re:Pair.sh – Pairing Made Simple
by snazz on Thursday May 30, 2019 @07:17PM
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According to “Interview Pass Rates,” it looks like there needs to be an Emacs proficiency test as part of preliminary interviewing, because Emacs users are the most likely (by far) to pass interviews!
(The article is probably right that most Emacs users are more experienced, better programmers than users of other editors, because there’s practically no bandwagon to hop onto)
Re:Pair.sh – Pairing Made Simple
by duncan-donuts on Thursday May 30, 2019 @07:03PM
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Yeah, when the GitHub link in the footer has no repos it feels a little discouraging. Seems like they kind of missed their audience if they’re linking to a GitHub organization with zero public repos. I am really interested in this though. I am starting a remote gig soon and I’m told we’ll commonly pair over tmux and I’m curious how this would be better.
Some questions that perhaps could be clarified on the landing page:
How does it work? Is it screen sharing or more like VS Code Live? Does it work with all editors? What’s the edge over other standard screen sharing solutions?
And maybe it’s just me, but I think I use the term “pair programming” or something much more than just “pairing” (but perhaps that’s because the direct translation of pairing in Swedish essentially means mating)
[1]: https://screenhero.com/
[0] https://tuple.app [1] https://artofproductpodcast.com/
The team is currently working on OSX and Linux clients with some functionality that will make Screenhero users very happy :)
50.7% VS Code
31.5% Visual Studio
30.5% Notepad++
The results very well follow the “developer evangelist”/cargo-culting and “underpaid enterprise code monkey” groups, however.
"Over the past year, VS Code usage has gone from 5% to 22%."
(The article is probably right that most Emacs users are more experienced, better programmers than users of other editors, because there’s practically no bandwagon to hop onto)
> Blog posts, sign-up pages, and fundraisers can't be tried out, so they can't be Show HNs.
I was looking forward to giving it a try but was stopped at a signup page. Apparently it is not ready yet.