Joel on Coal painless mining management
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This is an April Fool's joke. Joel Spolsky is still at Fog Creek Software & Stack Exchange. He hasn't gotten into the coal mining business. Hope you had a laugh. Thanks for the images, Fog Creek, We Are NY Tech, Wikimedia Commons, State Records NSW, and cliff1066.
Julia Rios wrote most of the text, and Sumana Harihareswara wrote the rest and messed with graphics (postmortem).