I'm convinced the moderator of this blog has actually fallen in love with Notch. They won't approve my comment because it's derogative to Notch's dev practises...
Especially in this Ludum Dare case, development practices or implementation details do not matter as much as results. And he did get results. That's why it was interesting. I'd like to hear of what you think was wrong and why? This was his show of productivity and results. Other people have other ways and other circumstances can be completely different. And should be different.
"Right now every box in a model has to be individually animated to match the part it’s attached to, and there’s no grouping or hierarcy [sic]. " -- Notch