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> I find it remarkable that the bigwigs have discovered a way to create a frozen fry that even a one armed eyeless chimp has trouble screwing up.

I find it in general remarkable that McDonalds' business processes seem to be so foolproof that any one armed eyeless chimp is able to create BigMacs, Hamburgers and any other McDonalds dish always and anywhere in the world with the same high quality.




Now that I've had personal experience with FogBugz (from FogCreek) I heavily discount Joel's wisdom.


What was wrong with it?


It was slow, full text searching didn't work (literally), when using their API to delete repos and recreate them there would be race conditions that would leave us in a state where their support would have to go data spelunking on their end to correct them.

I could nitpick the GUI and such but the real issues were these fundamental problems. I was shocked. This happened for years.




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