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Author Topic: joel (love to hate him) spolsky writes another must read column  (Read 4677 times)

mouser

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i cant say i like joel but you simply cannot deny he is a damn good and insightful writer.

latest article is quite good:

Things You Should Never Do, Part I
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Well, yes. They did. They did it by making the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make:
They decided to rewrite the code from scratch.

http://www.joelonsof...s/fog0000000069.html

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Re: joel (love to hate him) spolsky writes another must read column
« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2006, 11:54 PM »

latest article is quite good:



By Joel Spolsky
Thursday, April 06, 2000


 ;) :D

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Re: joel (love to hate him) spolsky writes another must read column
« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2006, 12:02 AM »
I thought that Netscape and Mozilla were practically the same thing these days. . .

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Re: joel (love to hate him) spolsky writes another must read column
« Reply #3 on: April 22, 2006, 05:39 AM »
By Joel Spolsky
Thursday, April 06, 2000

wtf! ok my bad.  it's an old article i thought was new.

i guess i should leave up this post since
1) it's still a good article
2) it's a testament to others what happens when you post beyond your bedtime.

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Re: joel (love to hate him) spolsky writes another must read column
« Reply #4 on: April 22, 2006, 06:02 AM »
2) it's a testament to others what happens when you post beyond your bedtime.
;D ;D ;D So true... Skrommel complained of the exact same problem. ;)