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Re:Debunking the Duct Tape Programmer by lamby on Monday September 28, 2009 @09:10AM (#848338)
I think he's actually agreeing with Joel, but he's just decided to ignore blatant conditionals in the original article.

For example, claiming that "misapplying duct tape solutions in serious software development [ends up] creating unnecessary additional complexity" is in no way antithetical to Joel.

And inserting stuff like "i've said it before, @jbogard : never take software advice from a bug tracking system salesman" has zero shock value anymore and hardly makes readers sympathetic to your argument.

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Re:Debunking the Duct Tape Programmer by jbellis on Monday September 28, 2009 @09:23AM (#848358)
> inserting stuff like "i've said it before, @jbogard : never take software advice from a bug tracking system salesman" has zero shock value anymore and hardly makes readers sympathetic to your argument

Yeah, much better to take advice from people parroting methodology consultants. :) [Beck et al]

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