DHH v. Joel On Software is turning out to be the best nerd sissy-fight of the year, and it’s devolved to a level that’s truly funny. Joel lands the latest punch in his 300^th installment of “I’m so great because I put my developers in private offices and live in New York:

To some extent, one of the best ways you can attract developers is to let them work on something interesting. This may be the hardest thing to change: doggone it, if you’re in the business of making software for the gravel and sand industry, that’s the business you’re in, and you can’t pretend to be some cool web startup just to attract developers.

Another thing developers like is working on something simple enough or popular enough that they can explain to Aunt Irma, at Thanksgiving. Aunt Irma, of course, being a nuclear physicist, doesn’t really know that much about Ruby programming in the gravel and sand industry.

OH NO YOU DIDN’T!

Joel’s piece went up hours ago. There’s still none of the overly earnest if not a wee bit defensive counterpointing on Loud Thinking that’s been quite so amusing. Get with the program, David.

Seriously, folks, this is good stuff. It’s the debate team vs. the chess team in a no-holds-barred steel cage match and may the biggest nerd win. If you’re in to this sort of thing, you have to check it out.

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