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Jun 18, 2024 · Joel Spolsky, co-founder of Stack Overflow and Trello. Paul Graham, co-founder of Y Combinator. DHH (David Heinemeier Hansson), creator of Ruby on Rails and founder of Basecamp. Coincidence? I think not. Writing is the secret weapon that helped these pioneers build massive audiences and reputations before launching their blockbuster products.
Jun 7, 2024 · From Joel Spolsky’s Strategy Letter V: All else being equal, demand for a product increases when the prices of its complements decrease…. When IBM licensed the operating system PC-DOS from Microsoft, Microsoft was very careful not to sell an exclusive license.
Jun 5, 2024 · 12 steps of Joel’s test in reality of JetThoughts projects: Do you use source control? Hell yeah! Is there anyone who still develops software without using source control in 2016?! We use git as it is comfortable, reliable and modern. Can you make a build in one step? Yes, we can!
Jun 24, 2024 · GPT-4o breezed quickly past most of the sane options before plowing straight into "let's rewrite it all" scorched-earth mode, clearly not having read Joel Spolsky. It spewed out an unusually long answer, hundreds of lines of code and instructions, presenting thorough and persuasive reasoning supporting this approach.
5 days ago · Joel on Software Joel Spolsky. Developer Humor There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors. - Leon Bambrick.
4 days ago · 1. core teams are dysfunctional. 2. people find niches and stick to them. 3. top talent is leaving, although pay is good and business creates real value for citizens. 4. there is virtually no horizontal communication. 5. mediocre ones rise to the level of their incompetence and infest the lives of others.