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Author Topic: joel (love to hate him) spolsky writes another must read column  (Read 6,545 times)

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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:

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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.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

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Re: joel (love to hate him) spolsky writes another must read column
« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2006, 04:54 AM »

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, 05:02 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, 10:39 AM »
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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, 11:02 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. ;)

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