Joel Spolsky pisses me off with articles like this. This kind of advice might be good for architecture astronauts, but none of them are going to be reading his blog. It's the think-they-can-hack-any-crap-to-work-yes-I-tested-it variety or programmers that are going to bask in the glory of this unbalanced diatribe.
Here's my own diatribe:
There's no way he actually runs his company the way that a manager reading this post would feel encouraged to - there's no way they would be successful. Real engineers have to use a large percentage of what they previously created to ship a product. If it's a pile of duck-tape-festooned crap, shipping will take a lot longer to "accomplish." I think that many highly successful real-world engineers that I've read would strenuously disagree with Joel. Does Joel actually read anyone who disagrees with him, or does he live in a self-affirming vacuum?
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