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Sandy Walsh
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Sandy Walsh writes SandyWalsh.com, a personal blog at sandywalsh.com about programming and career. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Out-of-Band Communications”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Sandy Walsh's post for its description of "out of band communication", a concept one commenter uses to argue that distributed teams with it are doomed.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
An ounce of perception. A pound of obscure.
Most-linked posts?
- Out-of-Band Communications2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-03-27
What Hacker News says?
Yes, this is a problem and indicates that the managers at these companies don't "get it", in my opinion. I refer to this as "out of band communication" (described well here: http://www.sandywalsh.com/2012/03/out-of-band-communications... ) and if your "distributed" team practices it, your collaboration environment is doomed. 37 Signals described how they worked around this problem by forcing employees at the parent…
Comment linking /2012/03/out-of-band-communications.html
on “Full Distributed Teams: are they viable?”Submitted A note for your non-geek friends about the new Facebook features and privacy as a story · 47 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Tale of Two Code Bases ... as a story · 43 points
HN discussionSubmitted Iterations and time-boxing are (mostly) useless as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Craftsmanship: Should You Always Explain Why? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Problem with Java and C# (it's not the language) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted 15 Problems with old school Technical Support as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bug Triage & Backlogs ... Unseen Broken Windows as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Out-of-Band Communications as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted State Creep as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How long can you work on a programming team before things get stale? as a story · 1 points
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