Doing too much work on one's own before looping in others

Re:Doing too much work on one's own before looping in others by nine_zeros on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @09:58AM (#30086237)

All the above examples do not describe my day-to-day experience. Are you literally on a death march 5 days a week, every week? Are you literally on a tedious but difficult task 5 days a week, every week? Are you literally working on such a difficult problem that it needs true collaborators 5 days a week, every week?

I specifically want to talk about - The Jeff Dean + Sanjay Ghemawat collaboration at Google is the most famous example of this.

Do you think they really produced all they did by pairing together? In my experience, the best things were produced by independent thinking, collaborating on experiments and trusting each others decisions. Not by actual pairing on the screen together.

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Re:Doing too much work on one's own before looping in others by zomglings on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @11:08PM (#30096079)

Who said you have to pair five days a week every week? That doesn't sound reasonable. Very few things should be taken to an extreme like that.

For Dean-Ghemawat, I think they produced many great things by pairing on the same screen together. They also obviously did good work independently of each other.

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