Still, I enjoy Joel's articles. And some stuff he built was neat, like "how to ship things". Reminds me that I still haven't watched the video.
I also don't think that Web 2.0 sucks, but it sucks if people look down on real software. two-week rails projects will only get mankind so far, I suspect.
Web 2.0 sucks in the sense that if you could be working on real things, it sucks to be working on two-week rails projects. Clearly, sometimes you have to do two-week rails projects or other equivalently boring things in order to get rich, but that doesn't make them any more interesting to talk about, from a hacker's perspective.
I also don't think that Web 2.0 sucks, but it sucks if people look down on real software. two-week rails projects will only get mankind so far, I suspect.