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This is EXACTLY what pg was talking about in "How to Disagree".

http://paulgraham.com/disagree.html

Your response is DH1, attacking the writer, not the message. Too bad.

I don't know Joel and I don't know how good is software or business is. I DO KNOW that this essay is a real saver. It's what I hand clients who question my rates. It shuts them up every time.



At what point did I call him a name? What name did I call him?

The boring database frontend/service integration software that keeps Fog Creek afloat is not a symphony or other work of high art and the analogy simply does not hold water.




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