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I find that Joel's essays are always a lot of fun to read. But complaints about his writing, not so much.


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.


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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.




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