Joel on Software - The Development Abstraction Layer

Amazing article. I enjoyed every word of it.

A programmer is most productive with a quiet private office, a great computer,
unlimited beverages, an ambient temperature between 68 and 72 degrees (F), no
glare on the screen, a chair that's so comfortable you don't feel it, an
administrator that brings them their mail and orders manuals and books, a system
administrator who makes the Internet as available as oxygen, a tester to find
the bugs they just can't see, a graphic designer to make their screens
beautiful, a team of marketing people to make the masses want their products, a
team of sales people to make sure the masses can get these products, some
patient tech support saints who help customers get the product working and help
the programmers understand what problems are generating the tech support calls,
and about a dozen other support and administrative functions which, in a typical
company, add up to about 80% of the payroll. It is not a coincidence that the
Roman army had a ratio of four servants for every soldier. This was not
decadence.

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I want more well written stuff like this.

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