Beating the duct programmer with generic domains, subdomains, and core domains

There has been  a certain amount of noise and comment around Joel Spolsky's post on the duct tape programmer. This is, for me, just another manifestation of the hero coder - the guy the business love because he 'gets things done'. He is t

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