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Re:How to prepare a technical interview (and why good progra... by fstopmick on Monday October 21, 2019 @12:30AM (#21309359)
I am absolutely in love with this response. Thank you for taking time to produce this. This could be a blog post.

Your post has me looking back at the opt-in samples of my experience and realizing that when they were opt-in, I never considered them to be "pair programming". It's always just been "healthy onboarding" or "healthy collaboration". My current org's obsession with enforcing PP for its own sake as a measured performance metric has conditioned me to squirm when I hear the term, but that's just a branding/emotional response problem. Thank you for the beautifully articulated check.

Re:How to prepare a technical interview (and why good progra... by K0SM0S on Monday October 21, 2019 @02:09AM (#21309707)
“My current org's obsession with enforcing PP for its own sake as a measured performance metric has conditioned me to squirm when I hear the term”

That's just bad, imho, I would have the same response.

And thanks a lot for the kind words, much appreciated!

“This could be a blog post.”

You can't imagine how many times I thought this too, and yet here I am 10-15 years later still writing comments... Ha, it's never too late I guess.

Re:How to prepare a technical interview (and why good progra... by fstopmick on Monday October 21, 2019 @11:01AM (#21313035)
Oooh! Can I copy the body of your comment into a post on my little project and credit you with a link back to this thread?! It should be seen and discussed by more people! I can do the same as a reddit post if you'd like, too.

If you wanted to set up a little blog beforehand in case people want to follow you, I can wait. whistles

Re:How to prepare a technical interview (and why good progra... by K0SM0S on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @06:13PM (#21328975)
You absolutely can! Credit all you want, I'm fine either way (although validation of ideas through HN could give more weight to your post indeed).

As for the blog, I'd rather do it once and for all (I have a cleaner / LTS mindset), so that will require a little planning (e.g. domain and URLs, as I hate dead links with a passion). I just don't have the time now, hopefully before year's end. So don't wait on me!

And thank you so much for the interest. It may be pride but I'm very grateful. Have a great one!

Re:How to prepare a technical interview (and why good progra... by fouc on Monday October 21, 2019 @09:04PM (#21319347)
I suppose you can always copy out your best or longest comments and post them as blog posts as is, and then later go back and update them appropriately. For any comments that overlap, just throw them all together into a single "blog post".
Re:How to prepare a technical interview (and why good progra... by K0SM0S on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @06:14PM (#21328991)
That is a very good idea, thanks so much for suggesting it! I'll definitely do that. Funny to think I might have years worth of posts ready that way.