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Mob Software

Posted by michael on from the get-the-torches dept.

Hell O'World writes: "Wow! Mob Software." A concise submitter, how refreshing. To elaborate: an essay whose author argues that large software projects should be built, well, by a mob.

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  1. THIS is why I read slashdot!!! by Rimbo · · Score: 4, Funny

    "The builders shared a set of principles--the common pattern language."

    Slashdot is, in its own, chaotic way, from the folks posting "goatse.cx" links to the helpful mirror-site posters, from the "Frist prost!" guys up to folks like Perens and Carmack, the place where engineering minds of many feathers come together, and as a group, we are able to keep in touch not just with news, culture, and technology, but to keep in touch with a common understanding and culture.

    We ARE the mob.

  2. Then I actually read the article by Aerog · · Score: 5, Funny

    At first glance, I thought he was talking about a database to keep track of whose kneecaps to break, with a friendly MS Word'esque helper with the face of Tony Soprano telling you "It looks like you're tryin' to write a fsckin' business letter." Then I actually read the article. . .

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    - Relativistic? That's barely Newtonian!
  3. Finally by MeowMeow+Jones · · Score: 5, Funny

    A software methodology that has a stupider name than "X-Treme Programming"

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  4. Gather up some angry villagers... by JesseL · · Score: 5, Funny

    You bring the pitchforks and I'll get some torches. We'll have Mozilla 1.0 out in no time!

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    "Prefiero morir de pie que vivir siempre arrodillado!"
  5. so let me get this straight... by Telek · · Score: 5, Funny

    The bigger the project, the more people should be writing it?

    WOAH! Where'd that truck come from? I always thought that the bigger the project, the fewer people should work on it...

    And all *my* story submissions get rejected...

    Moderate away! I've got Karma and I know how to use it!

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    If God gave us curiosity
  6. Scene: A crowded room... by whatnotever · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... no lights but for the sickly glow of hundreds of monitors... a mob of coders, all hunched over their various workstations.

    Suddenly, a burly, unshaven brute of a coder stands up, thrusts an accusing finger towards another man across the room, and shouts "He's using global variables!... GET HIM!"

    Pipes, chains, and two-by-fours appear out of nowhere as the entire mass of geeks converge on the poor victim, now bleating plaintively, pathetically trying to shield himself with his keyboard...

    ...

    Yeah, I see how that could work out pretty well, actually!

  7. I swear I've seen this before... by gnovos · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...something about an infinite number of monkeys on an infinite number of typewriters. It could work... :)

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  8. Coding with the fishes, see by Nastard · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't know what he's talking about. There's no mob mentality on the internet. The web is a place where individuals can share unique and sometimes conflicting ideas in a positive manner. To imply that there is any kind of groupthink...

    I just realized where I was. Tra la la.

  9. Mob developed software - hmmmm... by JanneM · · Score: 5, Funny


    "I will give you a patch you cannot refuse"

    Well, it might work :-)

    /Janne

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    Trust the Computer. The Computer is your friend.