Joel Spolsky
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Does Slow Growth Equal Slow Death?
Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here —
Authority: 136
One of our best programmers just came into my office. He’s working on a new price list that we’re putting into place, and he’s on a tight deadline. I need to be able to announce the new rates in three weeks, at the first public demonstration of the application FogBugz 7 .0. Implementing the new prices on ...5 days ago -
new york state of mind
ginsudo —
Authority: 99
There’s nothing like New York City – this has been said so many times in so many ways that it hardly bears repeating. But the compulsion to declare love for New York is like the compulsion for love itself: it doesn’t matter that countless generations have found this magic and proclaimed their discoveries ...1 week ago -
It Ain’t Happening. Sorry.
The Cranky Product Manager —
Authority: 471
This is brief, because it hurts to type. True physical pain. The Cranky PM has H1N1 – 0r as one reader termed it, “porkulosis”. No doubt, it is some kind of cosmic retribution for her executing a near flawless product launch earlier this week, and then bragging about it on Twitter. Unfortunately, this ...1 week ago -
Network Effects And Scale Economies (aka Spolsky vs. Heinemeier)
Continuations —
Authority: 526
David Heinemeier at 37signals published a post titled “ Bug tracking isn’t a network-effect business ” in response to a piece by Joel Spolsky in Inc. asking “ Does Slow Growth Equal Death ?” Heinemeier’s post is a possibly intentional misreading of Spolky’s so as to make it seem more controversial ...1 week ago -
Whats Wrong w/ Higher Ed in the US? Lots!
Campus Entrepreneurship —
Authority: 109
Newmark’s Door has a great blog entry offering a compilation of criticisms of higher education in the U.S. Those quoted included professors, entrepreneurs, and . Those targetted include law schools, humanities, and computer science departments. There is something for everyone in this piece. Here are a few snippets ...1 week ago -
Why Coding Tests Are A Bad Interview Technique - Brandon Savage
Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com —
Authority: 164
One thing I’ve noticed in hunting for a job recently is the number of companies that insist that you write them a code sample to spec. Not just any code sample, but a fully functional, complete application. This is absurd, for several reasons. Eli White spends a good deal of time arguing why coding tests are bad ...2 weeks ago -
The Duct-Tape Programmer Explained
Thought Clusters —
Authority: 113
Hope you had the time to read through all the essays linked to in yesterday’s post about the reactions to Joel Spolsky’s article “The Duct-Tape Programmer”. Here is my take on it. The use of the words “Duct-Tape” was only chosen by Joel as a flame bait, as he admits on his Twitter feed. Joel has a ...6 weeks ago -
ONML: the obligatory (or optional!) non-meta link
Jonathan Deamer —
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A silly idea that occurred to me, but I like throwing ideas at the wall that is the internet and seeing what sticks. The short version: in boring tweets about Twitter, we should include an ONML, or obligatory non-meta link so we don’t get sucked into an existential black hole of self-reference. The long version: ...8 weeks ago
