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From: dexen deVries <dexen.devries@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:54:49 +0200
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On Friday 29 of April 2011 11:44:31 tlaronde@polynum.com wrote:
> I don't know if there are black holes in the nature. But for sure mob
> programming has managed to create computer ones; projects so bloated
> that they are absorbing all the resources around with an emitted service
> dimming more and more.

curiously enough, both black holes are understood to undergo evaporation (d=
ue=20
to quantum tunneling) and communities undergo the so-called `evaporative=20
cooling' -- where influx of `cold' (barely talented) members causes evapora=
tion=20
of the the `hot' (most talented) members.

at any rate, `code removed is code debugged' is very true, but that's not=20
something easily put on CV or boasted to friends.


> (...) mob programming (...)

there's a lot of substarnce to offend certain projects with, no need to mer=
ely=20
use style.

=2D-=20
dexen deVries

[[[=E2=86=93][=E2=86=92]]]

``In other news, STFU and hack.''
mahmud, in response to Erann Gat's ``How I lost my faith in Lisp''
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3D2308816