Rails - Jun 2005 - RE: [OT] how to estimate RoR projects that follow the agileway

> I''d love for Joel to go back through some of his trash talk 
> and see what he has to say about it now.  I have no doubt 
> he''s still disparage throwing code away and re-writing it; 
> but obviously his comments about Apple and Mozilla were/are 
> wrong.  Of course, I''m allowing for the switch from Netscape 
> to Mozilla to Firefox.  Also, no matter how much we like 
> FireFox, it was _very_ long in coming...
Yes, and same with MacOS X.

And I''d bet Joel would argue -- or anyone could argue; especially
long-time Mac-users -- that the MacOS is indeed in the recycle-bin of
software history.  How many of us either still use MacOS 9 or run apps
in "Classic" mode?  As we all know, MacOS X is by and large, Next
technology and it''s a far, far different beast from the original MacOS.

Don''t get me wrong... as different as MacOS X is from
"Classic" it is
also a far, far better OS.  But, I do get a little wispy whenever I see
that old Classic OS running on my Powerbook and my next Mac won''t even
have the option to run Classic anymore as Classic won''t run on Intel
hardware.  And in that sense, I would argue that the MacOS is ancient
history.

Y''know, there''s just no room for sentimentality in the
technology
industry...

Sorry for going waaaay OT.