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Joel Spolsky suggests that you can't trust technical people who you didn't hire to do their job properly.

Always interesting how blog posts critical of Spolsky always create so much chatter here....or, almost always.

I feel sorry for anyone in this industry who looks toward people like Joel Spolsky for guidance.

And he shows several contradictions in what Spolsky preaches and what he practices.

Joel Spolsky made a million $ in a year with job boards.

Here's Joel Spolsky on the alternative they used at Fog Creek.

This is the blog post on which Joel Spolsky announced stackoverflow.com, in which he made the case for its need in the market of online resources for programmers.

I remember years ago Joel Spolsky writing something similar.

I subscribe to the Spolsky school of hiring: you need someone who's smart and gets things done.

If you happen to include Paul Graham as a target in the same blog post as Spolsky (Blogs Are Godless Communist Bullshit), it seems people here aren't as interested in the article for some reason.

I'm pretty sure there's either a Paul Graham or Joel Spolsky essay on the subject, but basically: What's the difference between a sufficiently complete and formalised specification, and a high-level programming language?

I think Joel Spolsky (?) is often quoted by saying that the easiest way to parse ms office file formats is to just install it on a server and use the documented API to Word, Excel,...

Edit: from his tweet - "on the podcast this week (unpublished, because I suck) @spolsky and I discussed "worst case scenario" biz outcomes.

Joel Spolsky, I believe, use to say this "Be a revenue producer, not a cost center." Get a developer job working on the product or services your company sells for revenue.

“Commoditize your complements.”—Joel Spolsky Apple is the watch.

You seem to be implying that, on news.yc, it's okay to criticize Joel Spolsky, but not Paul Graham.

Or less cynically, they follow Joel Spolsky's idea of focusing on your core competence and out source the rest to others.

If you like Spolsky, DeMarco and Lister were talking about this stuff years ago.