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A great idea for those who have no idea how to hire people!


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Mob programming because they don't trust the individual developers to deliver by themselves, mob programming because no one has a clue there and they hope there is wisdom in the crowd, and mob programming because they had nothing else to do.


> individuals don't deliver > no one has a clue

Welcome to Earth.

Most teams are not able to attract or retain talent, so they have to focus on maximizing and concerting effort instead.


Yes, I upvoted because you mentioned that one of the concept is the wisdom, but I for one am aware of the other concept called 'socialism': you have to be sure that each member of the team passed the entry exam, and you have to be sure that none of the team members become lazy and relies on others to lift the heavy burden, because if everyone avoids the heavy burden, then the 'socialism' collapses.


Ah Scotland, where vegetables is a deep fried battered chocolate bar, fruit is a can of irn bru, good weather is rain and wind, and copper wire was invented by two scots men fighting over a penny. And a friendly greeting is the 'glesgie kiss'


You would think docker would take all the help they can get, given how bad their current code base is. Maybe they should be "closing" their blog posts, and let real developers step in.


You're talking about a very popular project used in production by many people at many companies. If you're going to make a sweeping dismissal that it's terrible and all of the developers are bad, you absolutely have to back up your claims.


What's wrong with their codebase, care to elaborate?


But after we disrupted our pivot and enabled a sharing economy, we forgot what we were actually doing and when back to real jobs.


You know why we turn the sound off? Have you heard how whiny and self righteous millennials are?


I remember interviewing for a search company, but then found most of the work and business was spent on adverts! No thanks Google!


Bugs. Make sure it crashes at random times, then it takes longer to become boring.


My breakfast was magical - amazing smoked kippers, marmalade and toast, freshly roasted and ground filter coffee, a handful of fresh berries, and that was just the first course!


Waffles at the right time with coffee can be magical.


Rails is not a religion, it a tech tool (a pretty poor one at that), discussing it's many flaws is not shitting on it.


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