
Episode 30: Reaching Consensus and Code Editing Etiquette
Soft Skills Engineering
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Is There a Difference Between Your Solution and Yours?
Dave: I have been in this situation before where it was a little bit less stodgy and formal, but there was one time when I learned that a peer of mine was working on a feature. And so I wrote up the feature using this new programming concept and I made a diff and I emailed it to him and said, Hey, check out this diff. This might solve the problem. He actually wrote back and was a little upset and he said, you've now put me in a, in a tough spot because I had a different solution in mind. Dave: The key is in this situation would have been earlier communication with the people to say to them, Hey, I want
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