Re:Are You This Agile? Paul Graham Changes Hacker News While...
by pg on Thursday January 17, 2008 @12:13PM
(#99840)
The article is a little overenthusiastic, but it did strike me while this was happening that something new was going on. I'm very familiar with the model in which changes to a web app get pushed out quickly. But this felt different because (a) it was the result of a conversation with the users while they were using the site, and (b) I typed the changes into the repl of the running server, iterating through design options (and debugging) on the fly. These changes are still not released; if the server crashed and restarted, they'd disappear. (I saved them to a file on my development machine, and the server crashes rarely enough that I'll almost certainly release the latest version before that happens.)
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Re:Are You This Agile? Paul Graham Changes Hacker News While...
by jgrahamc on Thursday January 17, 2008 @12:37PM
(#99857)
It's probably the REPL part that's the most interesting from a coder perspective. For most languages you'd at least have to reload parts of the application to get this to happen.
Re:Are You This Agile? Paul Graham Changes Hacker News While...
by pchristensen on Thursday January 17, 2008 @12:19PM
(#99843)
Of course it was overenthusiastic - that was so people would read it! I used three key attention getters just in the title so more people would take a look:
1) "capital A" Agile (even though it wasn't really about that) 2) reference Paul Graham (always a lightning rod :) 3) Ask a challenge question "Are you this [positive adjective]?"
Re:Are You This Agile? Paul Graham Changes Hacker News While...
by pchristensen on Thursday January 17, 2008 @10:44PM
(#100141)
Wow, people really don't like attention getting headlines.