"It's just a ride."
— Bill Hicks

"Your another corporate fucking shill, you're another whore at the capitalist gang-bang. And if you do a commercial, there's a price on your head, everything you say is suspect, and every word that comes out of your mouth is now like a turd falling into my drink."

Love All the People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines
By Bill Hicks, John Lahr

Computing Dictionary

gang bang definition

The use of large numbers of loosely coupled programmers in an attempt to wedge a great many features into a product in a short time. Though there have been memorable gang bangs (e.g. that over-the-weekend assembler port mentioned in Steven Levy's "Hackers"), most are perpetrated by large companies trying to meet deadlines; the inevitable result is enormous buggy masses of code entirely lacking in orthogonality. When market-driven managers make a list of all the features the competition has and assign one programmer to implement each, the probability of maintaining a coherent (or even functional) design goes infinitesimal. See also firefighting, Mongolian Hordes technique, Conway's Law.
[ Jargon File]

* The New Yorker
* Fiction & Poetry
Poetry
Hackers Can Sidejack Cookies
by Heather McHugh May 11, 2009
A collage-homage to Guy L. Steele and Eric S. Raymond.
A beige toaster is a maggotbox.
A bit bucket is a data sink.
Farkled is a synonym for hosed.
Flamage is a weenie problem.

A berserker wizard gets no score for treasure.
In MUDs one acknowledges
a bonk with an oif.
(There's a cosmic bonk/oif balance.)

Ooblick is play sludge.
A buttonhook is a hunchback.
Logic bombs can get inside back doors.
There were published bang paths ten hops long.
Designs succumbing to creeping featuritis are banana problems.
("I know how to spell banana, but I don't know when to stop.")
Before you reconfigure,

mount a scratch monkey.
A dogcow makes a moof.
An aliasing bug can smash the stack.

Who wrote these tunes,
these runes you need
black art to parse?
Don't think it's only

genius (flaming), humor (dry),
a briefcase of cerebral dust.
A hat's a shark fin,
and the tilde's dash is swung:
the daughter of the programmer has got her period.
It's all about wetware at last,

and wetware lives in meatspace.

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