Another beautifully-written, thought-provoking column from Joel Spolsky. So good, I'll forgive the gratuitous crack at economists:

The developers who put a lot of effort into optimizing things and making them tight and fast will wake up to discover that effort was, more or less, wasted, or, at the very least, you could say that it “conferred no long term competitive advantage,” if you’re the kind of person who talks like an economist.

No, Joel, it's management consultants who talk like that.

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