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I completely feel you pain on this one. I attended the New England College Hackathon last weekend and was utterly disappointed. During the 12 hours we were th
by theyCallMeSwift 16y ago
I completely feel you pain on this one. I attended the New England College Hackathon last weekend and was utterly disappointed. During the 12 hours we were there, they managed to only feed us once and we were bombarded by windows surveys and evangelists looking for free / cheap labor.
To make matters worse, the judges only picked winners from the local area (and made poor choices IMHO). The second place winner did NO coding at all the entire time and the first place project was 4 months old.
Something needs to be done about this. Hackathons need standards too!
- DTrejo 16y agoHey man, thanks for the feedback. We did a bad job, next time I hope we'll do better. Some of the things we'll focus on: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2241031 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2241031
- dfield 16y agoI'm extremely sorry to hear you were disappointed. Like dtrejo said, there are a LOT of things we hope to change for next time. Please don't hesitate to shoot me an email if you have any other feedback. Also, I can't resist pointing out that all but ten lines of code for the first place hack were created during the Hackathon: https://github.com/dfield/ConcertMasterHero https://github.com/dfield/ConcertMasterHero. That said, I did not accept the first place prize because I was an organizer.