<story><title>A funny rap song about the pains of pair programming</title><text>Song URL: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=psw9G9Lp7ac&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=psw9G9Lp7ac&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Quick background on the project: I&amp;#x27;m a full time programmer and I love making rap music. I see a lot of humor in the profession&amp;#x2F;industry, and thought it would be fun to combine the two.&lt;p&gt;Here is what I&amp;#x27;m planning on for next steps. I&amp;#x27;m always open to feedback!&lt;p&gt;1. Get something for Patrons (ordered stickers, will probably order mugs as well)&lt;p&gt;2. Paid ad on a popular Twitter account(s)&lt;p&gt;3. Rent a GoPro and shoot a music video for one of the existing songs (if you have any tips on recording, please let me know - I have done some music video editing but don&amp;#x27;t know much about video cameras)</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bitewhite</author><text>This reminds me of a rap I wrote a while ago! I hadn&amp;#x27;t shared it before but here it goes. It&amp;#x27;s based on Eminem&amp;#x27;s &amp;#x27;Lose Yourself&amp;#x27;:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  Yo&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s build errors already, his code is spaghetti&lt;p&gt;He&amp;#x27;s nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready&lt;p&gt;To start debugging, but he keeps forgettin&amp;#x27;&lt;p&gt;The code he wrote down, has no comments at all&lt;p&gt;He starts to type, but more build errors are comin&amp;#x27; out now&lt;p&gt;He&amp;#x27;s choking, how, tabs and spaces are mixing now&lt;p&gt;The breakpoint runs out, null exception, blaow!&lt;p&gt;404, oh there goes code quality!&lt;p&gt;Oh, there goes overflow, he choked&lt;p&gt;He&amp;#x27;s so mad, but won&amp;#x27;t give up that easy? No&lt;p&gt;He won&amp;#x27;t have it, he knows this whole repo&amp;#x27;s a joke&lt;p&gt;It don&amp;#x27;t matter,&lt;p&gt;All that&amp;#x27;s left is to type in disgrace,&lt;p&gt;&amp;#x27;git rebase&amp;#x27;</text></comment>
<story><title>A funny rap song about the pains of pair programming</title><text>Song URL: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=psw9G9Lp7ac&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=psw9G9Lp7ac&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Quick background on the project: I&amp;#x27;m a full time programmer and I love making rap music. I see a lot of humor in the profession&amp;#x2F;industry, and thought it would be fun to combine the two.&lt;p&gt;Here is what I&amp;#x27;m planning on for next steps. I&amp;#x27;m always open to feedback!&lt;p&gt;1. Get something for Patrons (ordered stickers, will probably order mugs as well)&lt;p&gt;2. Paid ad on a popular Twitter account(s)&lt;p&gt;3. Rent a GoPro and shoot a music video for one of the existing songs (if you have any tips on recording, please let me know - I have done some music video editing but don&amp;#x27;t know much about video cameras)</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>__s</author><text>So I&amp;#x27;ll start the HN let&amp;#x27;s-ignore-the-headline-and-discuss-the-topic-thread&lt;p&gt;For some reason my boss was mentioning that we should do pair programming (they don&amp;#x27;t program). There&amp;#x27;s only a handful of devs. Nothing really happening. Personally I prefer asynchronous interaction, so I&amp;#x27;ve been pushing for code review. But two of my coworkers started pair programming &amp;amp; both seemed to think it helped work through their issues. I&amp;#x27;ve personally fallen into what might be called &amp;quot;pair programming&amp;quot; when pairing with a coworker who doesn&amp;#x27;t know how to program but knows all the business logic for a task&lt;p&gt;How are people pair programming? Does it work better when it happens organically? Does it change how much time you spend printf debugging?</text></comment>