Fire and Motion (2002)

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Fire and motion, Joel Spolsky on struggling with developer productivity (2002) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30675480 - March 2022 (3 comments)

Joel Spolsky: Fire and Motion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22085177 - Jan 2020 (1 comment)

Fire And Motion (2002) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14836749 - July 2017 (8 comments)

Fire and Motion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14097712 - April 2017 (1 comment)

Fire and Motion (2002) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12222121 - Aug 2016 (1 comment)

Fire and Motion - Leadership Strategies - Joel on Software - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=159209 - April 2008 (4 comments)

Fire and Motion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12890 - April 2007 (4 comments)

If the initial talk about flow and productivity is boring, skip down halfway, to the little paratrooper photo, to the important idea that's the title of the piece.

Modern JavaScript frameworks always make me think of this essay.

Back when playing the bf2 mod Project reality with mad Australian territorials, an other big important strategy was setting up a killzone. Finding a position that you could fire from with some cover, and that had a good view upon an area the other side would have to move through.

> Fire and Motion, for small companies like mine, means two things. You have to have time on your side, and you have to move forward every day. Sooner or later you will win.

It's interesting to reflect on this 20 years later. Can we say that FogCreek won?..

I dunno, it was open somewhere between 18 and 22 years, depending on how you count. Seems like a decent feat!

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