http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000596.html

That's a bit childish.

Well, we are only human.

LOL! So much analyses? Every one is up in arms! Irony-deficiency seems to be an occupational hazard in the Software Programming industry.

Joel gave a tongue-in-cheek answer to vaguely worded unanswerable questions that can be only be honestly answered with "It depends". He threw in a few taunting in-liners. We do that here in every post of every thread.

It'd be funny, were it not so sad.

Some of us are bots though.

http://www.newtonsoft.com/blog/archive/2006/09/02/How-to-increase-traffic-to-your-blog-_2D00_-the-Spolsky-way.aspx

LOL

what is it about s/w people talking about s/w that is usually so unutterably turgid?

that's actually where Joel often comes off well. He actually writes reasonably well. Same for PG. Some of these guys ought to ask themselves what they really have to say before starting to type.