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| The best articles from joelonsoftware.com, according to Hacker News. |
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| Change the ?site URL parameter to try it on any other website. Or click the domain shown after each post title. |
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| 2008 | | Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (joelonsoftware.com) |
| 393 points | 7 years ago with 227 comments |
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| 2005 | | Everyone thinks they're hiring the top 1% (joelonsoftware.com) |
| 286 points | 13 years ago with 106 comments |
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| 2006 | | My First BillG Review (joelonsoftware.com) |
| 251 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 153 comments |
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| 2001 | | Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You (joelonsoftware.com) |
| 237 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 148 comments |
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| 2005 | | Making Wrong Code Look Wrong (joelonsoftware.com) |
| 198 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 97 comments |
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| 2000 | | Things You Should Never Do, Part I (joelonsoftware.com) |
| 174 points | 10 years ago with 154 comments |
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| 2001 | | In Defense of Not-Invented-Here Syndrome (joelonsoftware.com) |
| 163 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 112 comments |
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| 2000 | | Things You Should Never Do (joelonsoftware.com) |
| 128 points | 3 years ago with 83 comments |
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| 2002 | | Fire and Motion (joelonsoftware.com) |
| 119 points across 2 posts | 7 months ago with 6 comments |
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| 2003 | | What Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode (joelonsoftware.com) |
| 96 points | 10 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 2009 | | The Duct Tape Programmer (joelonsoftware.com) |
| 93 points | 3 years ago with 50 comments |
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| 2002 | | The Law of Leaky Abstractions (joelonsoftware.com) |
| 87 points | 10 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 2003 | | Joel on The Absolute Minimum Every Developer Must Know About Unicode (joelonsoftware.com) |
| 82 points across 3 posts | 8 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 2006 | | My First BillG Review (joelonsoftware.com) |
| 78 points | 9 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 2001 | | In Defense of Not-Invented-Here Syndrome (joelonsoftware.com) |
| 66 points | 13 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 2003 | | Exceptions (joelonsoftware.com) |
| 63 points | 10 years ago with 89 comments |
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| 2002 | | Commoditize your complements (joelonsoftware.com) |
| 62 points | 3 years ago with 25 comments |
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| 2000 | | Chicken and Egg Problem (joelonsoftware.com) |
| 58 points | 2 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 2003 | | The Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely Must Know About Unicode (joelonsoftware.com) |
| 57 points | 7 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 2001 | | Back to Basics (joelonsoftware.com) |
| 51 points | 4 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 2000 | | Let Me Go Back (joelonsoftware.com) |
| 47 points | 10 months ago with 10 comments |
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| 2008 | | Good Software Takes 10 Years to Make (joelonsoftware.com) |
| 47 points | 2 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 2001 | | Bloatware and the 80/20 Myth (joelonsoftware.com) |
| 44 points | 10 years ago with 58 comments |
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| 2007 | | Where there’s muck, there’s brass (joelonsoftware.com) |
| 26 points | 2 years ago with 14 comments |
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