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har har! I tried to parse ONE article he wrote once. It took several hours and turned out to be an enormous waste of time. The results are here: http://www.joe
by spolsky 18y ago
har har! I tried to parse ONE article he wrote once. It took several hours and turned out to be an enormous waste of time. The results are here:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/printerFriendly/items/2006/12/23.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/printerFriendly/items/2006/12/...
What I don't get is why people keep paying him to write this stuff (he's been doing it for years in InfoWorld) since he might be smart but he's clearly not a very good writer. My only guess is that the editors who hire him don't want to admit that they can't understand what he's saying.
- brandnewlow 18y agoThat's way more than the guy deserves! I'd never heard of him before Arrington brought him on board. He had a few pieces on TechCrunch that week....but I couldn't make it past sentence 3 in any of them. The titles don't grab you and he uses words like "thusly." People like to read interesting stuff. If your stuff's not readable, then it doesn't matter how interesting it is.
- brentr 18y agoIt's bloated writing. He tries to pass himself off as intelligent, but his rambling clearly shows this is not the case. When people use big words and obscure references, it's usually a sign they are trying to imitate intelligence.
- lbrandy 18y agoI find myself writing like him sometimes. Sometimes you have complicated thoughts and you want to word certain things precisely and it comes out like a bad version of Dennis Miller with qualifiers on top of qualifiers, adjectives and adverbs all over the place... except most of us reread that and go 'whoooooaaa' and rewrite the whole mess.