This is so wonderful, thank you. Please don't change anything about it (except making the explanation of the channels available in the site's info panel)!
Yes. The other confusing thing about CORS is that CORS is not a protection against anything, but rather a way to UN-protect (in a restricted fashion) the browser's "same origin policy". Same Origin Policy is the protection, and CORS is the way to allow the browser to poke a hole through that in a limited fashion (only for the domains that the original site you visited say it should allow).
I am an introvert (although I don't have social anxiety). I work at a company where we pair program every day. I was very nervous about it at first, but I absolutely love it.
Sure, if your coworkers suck it's going to be horrible. But I've found that most people who go into programming are themselves introverts, so as you get to know your teammates and build trust, you know how to interact with each other, take breaks, not talk over each other, etc.
In fact, I think someone who is more extroverted or someone who is loud/obnoxious, would have a more difficult time pairing since it might be harder for them to listen to the other person and step back a bit.
As a counterpoint to most of the comments here: I work at a company where almost every developer pairs all the time. I absolutely love it. I thought I would hate it. I'm an introvert. I previously worked as a solo freelancer and then as a remote teammate. So I was very nervous about this aspect of the job, but figured I'd give it a shot (other things about the job were appealing enough that I was willing to try it out).
Some thoughts based on my own personal experience:
* The biggest win for me is I am much more focused and productive throughout the day. Having an actual person to be accountable to on a continual basis keeps me from meandering down unimportant rabbit holes, unnecessary/premature refactoring or re-organizing, and general procrastinating (reddit, HN, etc)
* Development is definitely at a slower pace on a daily basis than what I'm used to working on my own, but over time I think it evens out in terms of quality of code and maintainability.
* Knowledge sharing is huge -- when I was solo, I could never truly take a vacation because I was the only one responsible for my piece of work. Now I'm on a team where we all pair with each other and switch around every day... if someone is out, it's no big deal. Also makes it much easier to onboard new people (the company I work at is a consultancy so projects are always ending and new ones beginning).
* Despite being an introvert, I feel no more "drained" of energy at the end of the day than I ever did at any other job. One-on-one interactions with people I know and build trust with just doesn't affect me the way other social interactions do.
* Pairing is not a panacea. Some of the comments I've seen here are about how horrible it would be to pair and feel judged all the time or one personality overriding the other... I suppose that's possible but it doesn't happen at my job because my company values and encourages trust. My team is comprised of mature people who all value team cohesion and working together towards a goal over having to be right all the time or proving to someone that we're better or whatever.
* I am never "stuck" pairing with just 1 person for a long time... we switch around every day. I probably pair with any given person only once per week (on a team with 6 developers). But each team has autonomy to structure the pair switching however they want.
Those are just some thoughts off the top of my head. Happy to answer any questions anyone may have (and if it sounds interesting to you, my company is always hiring... we have physical offices around the world, as well as a "virtual office" for remote employees).
I sure am! Introversion doesn't mean you don't like interacting with other people, rather it's that such interaction is draining, and you need to be alone to "recharge" (whereas extroverts "recharge" by talking to others). Even the exhaustion of interacting with people is more of a scale than a binary thing -- I personally find one-on-one interactions much easier than groups.
I work for a company that takes agile development practices seriously, and I pair program all day, every day. I absolutely love it -- primarily for the reason you cite (I previously worked mostly solo as a freelancer or remote teammate)... having the direct accountability all the time makes me much more focused and productive.
(fwiw, I am definitely an introvert, but a one-on-one situation is much easier for me than a group).
My company (World Wide Technology - Application Services) is hiring -- we have some physical offices across the U.S. and a few in other countries, as well as a growing "virtual office" team (which, while remote, is still in frequent communication and pairs remotely). Email me if you want to talk more or be put in touch with someone about applying (my email address is in my profile).
It’s never easy :)
In this case though I would try to explore ways to deliver meaningful work to the customer more quickly. Without that quick feedback loop the entire premise of “agile” is meaningless (at that point it's basically just a way to organize your todo list).
"Throwing together" anything using anything is not really that hard, but understanding the problem, making trade-offs with limited time and budget, writing maintainable and well-tested code, making something easy to use, accessible, efficient... these are all very difficult to pull off regardless of whether you're building a CRUD site or not.
I would also disagree that the web dev learning curve is not that steep... sure to get something to "compile" (well, show up on the screen) is stupid easy (<p>Hello world</p>)... but to actually make a functional, usable, performant, efficient, accessible, beautiful site or app requires managing a lot of complexity across a bewildering amount of environments and tools.
I'm not saying all web software is simple and all web devs suck. The fact is that most web apps are CRUD, and not well designed or 'beautiful' and written by devs that really don't care about SWE or broadening their skill set - just collecting a pay check - and that's fine. The ecosystem of operating system, compilers, distributed systems, embedded etc is a bit more rigorous because the bar to entry is higher.
