Re:Are You This Agile? Paul Graham Changes Hacker News While...
by bayareaguy on Thursday January 17, 2008 @05:21AM
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agile [aj-uhl, -ahyl] Pronunciation Key adjective
1. quick and well-coordinated in movement; lithe: an agile leap.
2. active; lively: an agile person.
3. marked by an ability to think quickly; mentally acute or aware: She's 95 and still very agile.
Re:Are You This Agile? Paul Graham Changes Hacker News While...
by willarson on Thursday January 17, 2008 @08:25AM
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Although refutation by dictionary is a valued technique, I think its invalidated here by the capital A in Agile.
Re:Are You This Agile? Paul Graham Changes Hacker News While...
by bayareaguy on Thursday January 17, 2008 @12:12PM
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The word Agile appears exactly once in the article: the title (where every word is capitalized).
Yes, it's possible he's referring to Agile Programming but that's a stretch given all the other facts here.
Re:Are You This Agile? Paul Graham Changes Hacker News While...
by pchristensen on Thursday January 17, 2008 @10:00AM
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Who says he didn't test the changes before he published them? In four hours of asynchronous communication, he did two design iterations, got feedback on both, and fixed a bug that someone found. And this was unplanned, in response to unsolicited feedback. What else should he have done to slow it down more?
Re:Are You This Agile? Paul Graham Changes Hacker News While...
by neilk on Thursday January 17, 2008 @12:48PM
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I said that the article title was wrong, not that pg was wrong, or that Agile is even the best way to do things.
The equation of "we iterated faster == we're more Agile" is what I thought was retarded.
Re:Are You This Agile? Paul Graham Changes Hacker News While...
by pchristensen on Thursday January 17, 2008 @12:57PM
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Honest confession? The original title was "Can Your Website Do This?" but I changed it to Agile so more people would read it. Notice that I never mentioned Agile in the entire article and it had nothing to do with it. Sneaky, I admit, but right now I'm trying to get more people to read my writing.
Re:Are You This Agile? Paul Graham Changes Hacker News While...
by almost on Thursday January 17, 2008 @01:37PM
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Have you tried actually writing interesting and engaging pieces? I know it's a little harder, but it's less of an arseholeish thing to do than manipulating social news sites.
Re:Are You This Agile? Paul Graham Changes Hacker News While...
by pchristensen on Thursday January 17, 2008 @02:13PM
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Well, I spent about an hour writing the piece. I proofread it. I linked to the relevant parts of the dialog to make it easier to skim. I summarized for those who didn't want to follow links. I inserted screen shots for context. I linked to the other sites where it was being discussed. I added updates and clarifications in response to comments made on 3 different sites (mine, here, and reddit) to help the conversation. And it is related to Agile principles. Can I get some credit for doing those things?
I do apologize if you clicked on it looking for something about Agile and then found it uninteresting and unengaging.
The Agile way would slow down particular changes, with practices like testing. The theory is that you take a little more time for every change in order to maintain optimum speed over the long term.