Joel's essays are just that. Essays. He continues to ignore any and all research in the area and pretends to know what he's doing. If I wanted a bunch of misinformed opinions I could just ask non-programmers.

Research would be great. Would you be so good as to recommend a peer-reviewed study of the efficacy of Bill Gates' management technique?

Meanwhile, anecdotes may be anecdotal but they're still more enjoyable than flamage.

So point out a couple for things where he is wrong, according to research? That would actually be interesting. Also, Joel does quote research results in his essays.

Hey, I finally got to use the "flag" button!

(In case the post above is deleted; it's about 1000 lines of "-" characters and nothing else.)

How much karma do you need to be able to flag?

It only appears for me next to the post when I click "link" and view a comment individually. I assume this is to prevent knee-jerk flagging. Not sure what the karma limit is.

For me I noticed the flag button for the first time when I reached around 150 karma points.

I can flag posts but not comments, and I'm at 118.

I do notice, however, that I see the flag link for your comment now that I've hit the reply button. I think this is a bug.

I find telling you to SHUT THE FUCK UP a lot of fun.