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Searching for "the black team ibm -mustaches -infamous" on google returns (nearly) nothing. I find it astonishing that there is no record of such a team that doesn't mention mustache twirling.

I suspect that some hacker wanted a version of the Black Watch to look up to, so he invented one. I don't object to the invention of legends, but we should include some traditional legend-flagging phrases: "long ago", "never heard from again", &c.



The original article is a somewhat munged copy of an account in Peopleware 2nd ed (I wonder about the plagiarism possibility there).

And said book does have the mustache twirling.


If these events didn't actually transpire the way that the author of this story suggests, does that make the story any less valid?




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