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This is cool and something I didn't know about tmux:

"The one disadvantage of everyone at DockYard working remotely is that you can't just turn around and ask someone to come to your desk to pair up. Tmux allows multiple users to connect to a specific session. With a bit of dynamic DNS magic, port forwarding, and ssh tunneling, multiple people can connect to the same tmux session, work in the same vim window, and see the same development server."

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"With a tmux, ssh port forwarding, and Google+ Hangout, you can create a useful pair programming environment with your remote coworkers. We find this setup very effective and use it often to work together and tackle an issue."

I also use tmux to conduct remote code-pairing interviews -- very similar to regular pairing except that I've never worked with the candidate before.

I've found skype and copilot both to work well for this challenge. Curious of tmux will work better (iOS devs).

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