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Re:Ask HN: Junior Engineers Working Remotely by muzani on Monday July 05, 2021 @08:15PM (#27743067)
There's small things you miss out when mentoring someone remotely. I learned a lot from how my seniors would use shortcuts for everything, the way they'd arrange windows on the monitor, which tabs they kept open, and the way files were arranged.

Even when I mentor juniors, often I see them struggling with an unclosed bracket and tell them to CTRL+ALT+L or CTRL+B to jump into a method. You can learn all this in courses, but sometimes it's not clear what you haven't learned.

Re:Ask HN: Junior Engineers Working Remotely by u801e on Monday July 05, 2021 @09:02PM (#27743310)
I think a lot of people eventually come up with a workflow that works for them rather than copying others. As for keyboard shortcuts, I've found that there are certain people who will continue to use repetitive keystrokes without ever considering there's a quicker way to accomplish what they're doing and others will spend time learning the keyboard shortcuts, macro usage, regular expressions, etc to make themselves more efficient regardless of whether they've been mentored or not.
Re:Ask HN: Junior Engineers Working Remotely by dv_dt on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @01:01PM (#27751254)
If the org does remote pair programming that kind of thing does get transferred.