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Joel on Software
- Have you ever heard of SEMA? It's a fairly esoteric system for measuring how
good a software team is.
No, wait! Don't follow that link! It will take you...
- To make people happy, you have to let them feel like they are in control of
their environment.
To do this, you need to correctly interpret their
actions...
- There's a subtle reason that programmers always want to throw away the code
and start over.
The reason is that they think the old code is a mess...
- TRS-80 Level-I BASIC could only store two string variables,
A$ and B$.
Similarly, I was born with only two bug...
- A lot of software developers are seduced by the old "80/20" rule.
It seems
to make a lot of sense: 80% of the people...
- Whenever somebody gives you a spec for some new technology,
if you can't
understand the spec, don't worry too much...
- When I was 6 and my dad brought home one of the world's first pocket
calculators,
an HP-35, he tried to convince me that it had a computer...
- Imagine that we had a way of sending actors from Broadway to Hollywood that
involved putting them in cars and driving them across the country.
Some of
these cars crashed, killing the poor actors...
- A common misconception, I assume popularized by Hollywood,
is that as you
get closer to shipping software, activity...
- Version 5.0 of Microsoft's flagship spreadsheet program Excel came out in
1993.
It was positively huge: it required a whole 15 megabytes...
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