Joel (Spolsky) maintains a good weblog, with accurate observations or stuff to think about. I wonder if this post was written by himself, or by some of his interns that hacked into his computer. Joel would never defend software that contains bugs that are not dealt with. Joel would also never contradict himself (explaining that 77.1 binary is a repeating number and in the Q&A saying he can’t think of anything of the top of his head that’s causing this behaviour). Finally, Joel would never lie to you (“this bug actually mattering to you as an individual is breathtakingly small” but not only individuals use Excel).
So, either I’m right about the intern hacking into Joel’s computer, or Joel had found out about sarcasm. I stick with the hacking story. Anyone?