Yes I think so. Have you tried it?
Just cases where PR were submitted close to someone holidays and I assigned it to someone else in the team to bring it over the line. But otherwise I have worked with sync pair programming only.
Readit Newsthinkindie commented on Code review can be better tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025... · Posted by u/sealeck
thinkindie commented on Code review can be better tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025... · Posted by u/sealeck
Just taking a step back, it is SO COOL to me to be reading about stacked pull requests on HN.
When we started graphite.dev years ago that was a workflow most developers had never heard of unless they had previously been at FB / Google.
Fun to see how fast code review can change over 3-4yrs :)
Given the security incident that happened to CodeRabbit I’m a bit less enthusiastic about testing out new tools that have LLMs and my codebase under the same tool.
What can be a very nice experiment to try something new can easily become a security headache to deal with.
thinkindie commented on Code review can be better tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025... · Posted by u/sealeck
Here's an alternative I've wondered about: Instead of one person writing code, and another reviewing it - instead you have one person write the first pass and then have another person adjust it and merge it in. And vice-versa; the roles rotate.
Anyone tried something like this? How did it go?
That’s basically an async pair programming session, isn’t it?
thinkindie commented on Databricks is raising a Series K Investment at >$100B valuation databricks.com/company/ne... · Posted by u/djhu9
I’ve never seen a Series K before. I wonder how their cap table looks like.
I mean, this is the company that invented microservices so....
very fair point - but there are valid use cases for microservices.
Am I naive thinking this infra is overblown for a read-only content website?
As much as this website could be very trafficked I have the feeling they are overcomplicating their infra, for little gains. Or at least, I wouldn't expect to end having an article about.
thinkindie commented on Germany's identity crisis: The trains no longer run on time washingtonpost.com/world/... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
France’s high speed trains have a dedicated network of tracks. They don’t have to share those tracks with regional and cargo trains.
btw every high speed train network is separated from the conventional one otherwise they will never be able to travel as fast as 300km/h
thinkindie commented on Germany's identity crisis: The trains no longer run on time washingtonpost.com/world/... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
> high speed trains in Italy run better than Germany
Not to excuse the German performance, but part of the reason is that the Italian high-speed railway network is significantly simpler than the German one, also in terms of interconnections with neighbouring countries:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Italy_TAV.png#/media...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ICE_Network.png#/med...
Germany is much flatter than Italy - while the the line between Bologna and Florence, Florence and Rome, Rome and Naples, must go through a lot of mountains or steep hills. Also, Italy is a territory with a lot of seismic activity every year, and that's something you can't ignore when you send trains at 300 km/h.
thinkindie commented on Germany's identity crisis: The trains no longer run on time washingtonpost.com/world/... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
> regional and suburban train service has been great
In which city?
Berlin. Until few years ago it was great.
thinkindie commented on Germany's identity crisis: The trains no longer run on time washingtonpost.com/world/... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
I moved to Germany 10 years ago and while regional and suburban train service has been great, the long distance service has been terrible, with high prices, almost no high speed service and no competition. I'm Italian and therefore I had very low expectations, but at least high speed trains in Italy run better than Germany (at least until recently, when lack of regular maintenance work ultimately made its dent into the service quality).
But for many software engineer this is not a big surprise: everyone knows that accumulating tech debt and neglecting maintence will eventually bite back sooner or later.