The "Even Dirtier Secret", HN edition: devs who can't type, don't read books, can't understand LtU or git or BDD, get all their info from Stackoverflow. Oh, yeah, they're not in the top 99.999999%, so now way Joel will hire them.

Amen, brother. Proving once again the old adage that raw output doesn't amount to much by itself.

I just skipped down to the bolded text. Took about 10 seconds.

I'm sure he had something else important to say.

Maybe?

Ironically, he also said this:

"You'd be absolutely astonishedly flabbergasted at how many programmers don't know how to READ. I'm dead serious. You can learn to speed read even faster than you can learn to type, and yet there are tons of programmers out there who are unable to even skim this blog. They try, but unlike speed readers, these folks don't actually pick up the content."

I wonder if he had anything to say about people who wrote rambling, long articles?

Heck, I'm one of 'em!