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Hackathons are good demonstration of some underlying reasons why non-software engineers hesitate to call us engineers as well :) Would you live in a house buil

• kragen 14y ago
  You must not be from the US, because apparently you haven't heard of Habitat for Humanity, which builds houses in buildathons, or the Amish, who do the same thing when they build their houses and barns. (Surely you've heard of a "barn-raising"?) Maybe you should watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0ph0rA-A9U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0ph0rA-A9U And you must not know much about construction, either, because there are regular contests where teams compete to see who can build houses fastest, which are well-known among people who work in construction. Unfortunately I'm not one of them, so I don't remember what they're called.