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ITProTV’s Engineering Blog
Company blog · engineering.itpro.tvprogrammingweb
ITProTV’s Engineering Blog is the company blog at engineering.itpro.tv, writing about programming and web. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
ITProTV’s engineers are facing challenges with optimism daily while working on ITProTV’s entirely custom-built site. See what’s happening in the engine room.
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I agree that full pairing does make remote working harder, and the hours should be fixed, but we've been doing promiscuous pairing for a few months now to achieve 'beginner's mind' and that has been just as effective as 'flow', and more consistent to achieve. https://engineering.itpro.tv/2018/12/07/our-first-experiment...
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on “Ask HN: What company environment has enabled your best work?”Submitted Upgrading Elm-Lang to 0.19 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAt my previous place we did promiscuous pairing, where each person stays on a task for 3 hours, but switches roles at the halfway point from driver to navigator. http://engineering.itpro.tv/2018/12/07/our-first-experiment-... . I think promiscuous pairing and mob programming result in similarly higher quality code and higher velocity. We tried mobbing a couple of times but it’s very different so it didn’t catch on e…
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on “Those pesky pull request reviews”Submitted My Infatuation with Elm as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAt work we do promiscuous pairing, https://engineering.itpro.tv/2018/12/07/our-first-experiment... , which encourages getting into beginner's mind (which is much easier to achieve, maintain, and recover when lost) instead of flow (which can often be difficult to achieve, maintain, and recover when lost). It doesn't answer your question, but hopefully it's a helpful alternative for you. It has been incredibly helpful…
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on “Ask HN: What do you to get into flow state”Submitted Haskell in production: A GHC upgrade success story as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Promiscuous Pairing Experiment a Big Success for ITProTV as a story · 1 points
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