Comments on: Anatomy of Software Collaboration http://socialmode.com/2007/12/24/anatomy-of-software-collaboration/ Integrated Synthesis of Media, Society and Behavior Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:54:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Live Audience Coding Competition with N-Brain « Social Mode http://socialmode.com/2007/12/24/anatomy-of-software-collaboration/#comment-241 Sat, 17 May 2008 18:08:19 +0000 http://un1crom.wordpress.com/2007/12/24/anatomy-of-software-collaboration/#comment-241 [...] is back at it with coding challenges.  This time it’s public and not secretive at all.  Over Christmas last year, N-brain launched a stealth coding competition to lure job applications and introduce the dev world to their new software development platform, UNA.  I participated in [...]

]]> By: Social Networks Problem Solving Paradigms and Best Network Layout « Social Mode http://socialmode.com/2007/12/24/anatomy-of-software-collaboration/#comment-27 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:41:24 +0000 http://un1crom.wordpress.com/2007/12/24/anatomy-of-software-collaboration/#comment-27 [...] Master Software Developer Competition – Lattice.  but hard to say.  There seemed to be a few key nodes and generally some “neighborhoods”.  On slashdot it was full, but once the Google group took over the network structure changed a lot.  Hmmm… need to think on that. [...]

]]> By: PeterOfOz http://socialmode.com/2007/12/24/anatomy-of-software-collaboration/#comment-11 Mon, 24 Dec 2007 22:57:54 +0000 http://un1crom.wordpress.com/2007/12/24/anatomy-of-software-collaboration/#comment-11 Thanks for the detailed analysis. Here is a time line of the stages as they were solved as I could best discern from the discussion threads.

Dec 5 Google Group created
Dec 22 9:52a Posted on SlashDot
Dec 22 10:00a Job posting puzzle solved on SlashDot
Dec 22 12:00p First post to the Google Group
Dec 22 01:40p Part 1 Test javascript problems 1-12 solved
Dec 22 02:07p Part 1 Test Ford problem solved
Dec 22 03:41p Part 2 Question cipher solved
Dec 22 09:44p Part 2 Code.png solved
Dec 23 09:59p Part 3 Answer cipher solved
Dec 23 03:49a Puzzle solved

]]> By: APM http://socialmode.com/2007/12/24/anatomy-of-software-collaboration/#comment-10 Mon, 24 Dec 2007 04:55:07 +0000 http://un1crom.wordpress.com/2007/12/24/anatomy-of-software-collaboration/#comment-10 “What do you conclude?”

While lurking on the group for 3 hours, I concluded that the single bigest obstacle to group collaboration was not knowledge, skill, bad behaviour, or anything else of such an intrinsic nature.

It was that everyone had a different timezone. And even the final answer, N-BRAIN’s Una, can’t fix that problem.

But that’s hardly relevant when the puzzles were completely solved in less than 18 hours.

]]> By: Alnilam http://socialmode.com/2007/12/24/anatomy-of-software-collaboration/#comment-9 Mon, 24 Dec 2007 03:11:19 +0000 http://un1crom.wordpress.com/2007/12/24/anatomy-of-software-collaboration/#comment-9 Nice summary. Unfortunately, I think I should get credit for a couple of red herrings. It was very enjoyable to watch, though.

]]> By: 56 http://socialmode.com/2007/12/24/anatomy-of-software-collaboration/#comment-8 Mon, 24 Dec 2007 02:31:44 +0000 http://un1crom.wordpress.com/2007/12/24/anatomy-of-software-collaboration/#comment-8 Whoa, that’s really nerdy.

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