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Imagine that The Naked Chef gets bored doing "telly" and opens a restaurant. Like his venture 'Fifteen' that is not only a top restaurant, but also a program f
by mschy 17y ago
Imagine that The Naked Chef gets bored doing "telly" and opens a restaurant.
Like his venture 'Fifteen' that is not only a top restaurant, but also a program for troubled youth? Or more like the half-dozen or so "Jamie's Italian" that have opened?
Or like the dozens of additional "Jamie's Italian" that are planned for Europe and Asia in the next couple years?
Come on, Joel. If you're going to use a metaphor, please make sure it fits... at least a little. Jamie Oliver is already executing on the exact thing you say he can't do; creating a repeatable process to make delicious food and opening a chain of restaurants that sell it.
- smiler 17y agoCheck out the date of the article... 2001. It's not a new article
- mschy 17y agoMy bad. I assumed that a new submission would be, y'know... new.
- blasdel 17y agoSpolsky has a talent for using very specific examples in his just-so-stories that then later turn out to be the purest counterexample he could have picked. Like using Netscape -> Mozilla as your example of why you should never ever rewrite software from scratch.
- wallflower 17y agoMozilla Firefox was forked from the rewritten Mozilla codebase From the original Spolsky: > Netscape 6.0 is finally going into its first public beta...Well, yes. They did. They did it by making the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make: They decided to rewrite the code from scratch. http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/releases/0.1.html http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/releases/0.1.html http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-users@linux-sxs.org/msg06717.html http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-users@linux-sxs.org/msg067...