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by David Heinemeier Hansson.
Original Post: Basecamp gets biled along with Web 2.0
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Hani Suleiman is the author of the infamous BileBlog, which has become somewhat of a fixture in the Java community. It's the place where Hani disparages everything and everyone with profanities, toilet references, and insults of a variety that's usually reserved for the worst trolls of the internet.
Oddly enough, he seems to have at least some fan base in the Java community. And even more perversely, he recently voted into the Java Community Process Executive Committee (not everyone was amused). A group chartered by Sun with taking Java forward.
Anyway, the reason I'm bothering you with an introduction to this man is because he just did a piece on "Web TwoPointSchmoe", "Tim FuckFace O'Reilly", and of course Basecamp:
The fact that he cited 37signals is testament enough to how divorced he is from reality. I know of 5 people who have tried 37signal's basecamp. None of these are techies, and every single one of them had an awful experience, and spends their time telling anyone who'd listen that it is, without a doubt, the worst project management tool they've ever encountered. The 'simpler means higher quality' line is also ludicrous. Simpler for who? Simpler to code has nothing to do with simpler for the user.
This is awesome. In the sense of awesome meaning funny in a sad, tragical way where you feel sorry for the person. On that note, Mena had some good thoughts of civility recently (I could definitely learn to be more civil at times too). And Kathy Sierra hits it with Are nice and honesty mutually exclusive?
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