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Let me just leave this here if there are some people who have missed this jewel: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-review/ https://www.jo

• Anthony-G 8y ago
  Coincidentally, I only just read this entertaining anecdote earlier today because I have to support a VBA application and thought I′d check out https://stackoverflow.com/tags/vba/info https://stackoverflow.com/tags/vba/info for good resources to get up to speed on it (coming from a Unix background). This was the last link on that page and knowing Joel’s a great writer, I read it first. I particularly liked this summation: > He didn’t meddle in software if he trusted the people who were working on it, but you couldn’t bullshit him for a minute because he was a programmer. A real, actual, programmer.
• ThirdFoundation 8y ago
  That was a nice read, thank you
• person_of_color 8y ago
  Anyone else cringe? The absolute worship of rich people in American culture.
  • SOLAR_FIELDS 8y ago
    I mean, I don’t think you’re getting the full picture here. The guy who wrote that is pretty damn successful himself now (he helped create stackoverflow and his company has had some huge successes with software like Trello) and probably owes some part of that success to the stuff that BG invented. So while I think your sentiment in general might be true (Americans certainly do have a disgusting idolization of rich people) I think in this case it’s a bit misguided.