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  • gramie@lemmy.catoTechnology@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    13 days ago

    I have done pair programming with a junior partner, and I found it extremely beneficial. Taking the time to talk out my ideas and logic invariably helped make them clearer in my mind and realize pitfalls much sooner than I otherwise would have.

    I had to explain things clearly and logically, and he was bright enough to ask good questions and point out typos as I was coding.



  • Even as a 13-year-old, I could see gaping holes in the plot and inconsistencies. The aliens were hardly alien.

    Even more so, I could see that the writing was clumsy and the dialogue was stilted. I could see how the writer was developing the story, and so I was not pulled into it at all. I was actually thinking to myself that I could write something like this. And I was 13!

    I haven’t seen the movie, but from the sounds of it many of the problems with the book are also on screen.




  • I don’t know if this counts, but when I was about 13I was very excited to find an enormous book in my favorite genre at the time, Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard.

    It was the first book I ever put down in disgust without finishing. In the almost half-century since then, there are under a dozen that I haven’t finished. Shows you just how bad it is.