Do you remember the first time you had coffee? A lot of people relate their first experience as a bad one, and that coffee is an acquired taste. I can’t relate to that because I’ve always loved coffee, from my very first taste, but I understand the notion, and I want to relate that idea [...]
Today I take another paragraph from one of Joel Spolsky’s posts and quote it here for emphasis on something I find very important:
“When a programmer complains about “politics”, they mean—very precisely—any situation in which personal considerations outweigh technical considerations. Nothing is more infuriating than when a developer is told to use a certain programming language, [...]