Atwood talked about exactly this, calling it "digital sharecropping": http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/08/are-you-a-digital-s...
What amazes me about StackOverflow is that Spolky and Atwood figured so much of this out at the start.
What amazes me about StackOverflow is that Spolky and Atwood figured so much of this out at the start.
Even if that was the mantra, that's figuring it out from the start.
That wasn't the mantra though; EE was only one of the influences.
Watch Joel's tech talk (www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWHfY_lvKIQ) - they really did figure a ton of it out at the start. See Joel's tech talk