Re:Joel: Five Easy Ways to Fail (in a Software Project)
by MuddyMo on Thursday October 25, 2007 @03:41PM
(#72631)
Joel is a rarity: brilliant, successful programmer, entrepreneur and writer. But when writing about how to develop successful software, it tends to be things that would resonate with frustrated enterprise software programmers, like he used to be, or guys like Scoble perhaps. But his theme is similar to PG's, concentrating on making it possible to develop software using programmers with average talent will not result in exceptionally useful software programs.
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Re:Joel: Five Easy Ways to Fail (in a Software Project)
by michaelneale on Thursday October 25, 2007 @05:08PM
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>enterprise software programmers, like he used to be
Not sure he would qualify as one of those (not even sure what the definition is).
Re:Joel: Five Easy Ways to Fail (in a Software Project)
by MuddyMo on Thursday October 25, 2007 @06:05PM
(#72691)
Your right, for brevity's sake, I sacrificed clarity. Perhaps "programmers of software driven by large enterprise marketing departments"
Re:Joel: Five Easy Ways to Fail (in a Software Project)
by michaelneale on Thursday October 25, 2007 @08:52PM
(#72745)
Yes that would be better. But then a lot of software falls under that. That which doesn't can also be described in belittling terms. Pick any software you like, mostly it will be trivial (or possible to describe it in trivial terms).