Oh, how I love this post by Joel on The Duct Tape Programmer! This is such a salient point that applies to so much more than the context here. “You see, everybody else is too afraid of looking stupid because they just can’t keep enough facts in their head at once to make multiple inheritance, or templates, or COM, or multithreading, or any of that stuff work.”
I just ordered my copy of Coders At Work.
On a total Tangent, I just completed the transfer of my domain name off of Network Solutions to Dreamhost. Dreamhost is awesome and dirt cheap. They have one -click installs of just about everything you’d ever want to run on your website and their registrations are almost free they are so inexpensive. I’ve been hosting with them for over a year and have had zero issues (other than imap email, but that’s another story). I 100% recommend Dreamhost.