Joel is pretty good, right up to the part where he starts getting into specifics about programming languages and techniques.

Great manager, terrible programmer.

Matz goes on to clarify: “He has right to trust himself than me. I think I am a better language designer than him. But at the same time, I think he is a better programmer to create enterprisy software.”

Hardly a controversial statement.

^—particularly considering the not-exactly-positive implications of ‘enterprisy’.

Enterprise is the new red-headed step-child.

Actually i think not. They used to say ‘you’ll never get fired for buying IBM ’

My boot-disk brings all the boys to the yard, dang right, it’s better than yours!

we would all do well to consider this classic example of duck-typing that Matz has demonstrated.

For a consultant, basically half of your job is CYA . As a new hire, straight out of college, a lot of people at the company recognized that I had better-than-average-new-grad skills, but unfortunately the “right people” refused to believe that a young punk could know anything. Things like Test Driven Development saved my ass back then. I could show definitively (when the “right people” couldn’t) that my work was “correct”.

It is very unfortunate that we can’t always do the job correctly. I keep hoping that the next 5 to 10 years will see enough good programmers graduating to become good managers and thereby shield the other good programmers from the whims of the ignorant upper management. Until then, we just have to pull out the asbestos bloomers.

So, in that respect Joel is correct. However, he is a self fulfilling prophecy, he is correct because he is one of those disconnected managers that much everything up for the good programmers.

Oh, and the incredibly narrow width of these reply boxes only make my replies look incredibly long…

Well, your comment is 9 times longer than the original post. Soon it will BECOME A MONSTER AND CONSUME US ALL !!

A lot of egos out there could learn from Matz’ ability to recognize and accept his strengths and weaknesses. Humility separates the great men from the good men.

A lot of egos out there could learn from Matz’ ability to recognize and accept his strengths and weaknesses. Humility separates the great men from the good men.

Word. All your base are belong to Matz! What happen? Somebody set up us the bomb! We get signal.

Goat got your tongue?

Please write news entries that people can understand and doesnt contain lots of links that you’ll have to click inorder to understand what its all about.

Bäver: I’ve come to the conclusion that these people are intentionally vague.

The vagaries of redhanded lead to enlightenment. It’s like a Zen kone.