{"id":237,"date":"2002-09-04T00:03:58","date_gmt":"2002-09-04T00:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/?p=237"},"modified":"2002-09-04T00:03:58","modified_gmt":"2002-09-04T00:03:58","slug":"20020904","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/2002\/09\/04\/20020904\/","title":{"rendered":"2002\/09\/04"},"content":{"rendered":"

A bunch of people asked me what I meant when I referred<\/A> to Rick Chapman’s upcoming book on stupidity in the software industry. The book has not been published yet; I just read his manuscript so that I can write the foreword (being something of a stupidity maven, myself). As soon as it comes out you can be sure I’ll let you know, since it’s a great book.<\/P>

I keep forgetting to link to TopCoder.com<\/A>. What a cool idea, online programming competitions!<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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