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> And everyone gets their hands on everything! You walk by, you see what someone is making, you play with it and trade ideas, you sit down and work on it together. This happens constantly.

Abandon your virtaul dreams hackers.. start to socalize and group think. And use paper.

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I'm not sure what kind of software you write, but every large piece of software I've ever worked on has required collaboration, and collaboration done well builds better software than any one coder could write by themselves.

Not the OP, but I suffer from social anxiety, and the ability to socialize outside of "real life" is a huge part of what attracted me to tech as a kid. So to me, the idea of replacing data and virtual collaboration with a big noisy room sounds… well, it sounds like a nightmare, a dystopia. It actually makes my heart race a bit just thinking about it.

Of course, that doesn't mean the project is bad, just that it's profoundly unsuited to me personally. But I'm probably not the only person like that on this forum...

In contrast, often times a core design is created by one particularly brilliant individual, which is stable enough for others to build upon. For example, Linux (Torvald), Minecraft (notch), Redis (antirez), C++ (Stroustrup), Ruby (Matz), NodeJS (Dahl), Bitcoin (Satoshi), etc... I'd be interested to hear of examples of "great" software that started off in a collaborative fashion.

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