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Most hackathons have been this way for a long time. I recall spending a weekend working out some really thorny data classification problem but got nowhere, all
by afavour 4mo ago
Most hackathons have been this way for a long time. I recall spending a weekend working out some really thorny data classification problem but got nowhere, all the winners had slick presentation slides and a 30 second code demo of a glorified CRUD app.
- boscillator 4mo ago> A bad design with a good presentation is doomed eventually. A good design with a bad presentation is doomed immediately. - Akin's 20th law of spacecraft design I always really enjoyed making a slick presentation. It was a lot of fun figuring out how to scope the hardest problem you are sure you can finish in 24hr while still having time to polish your presentation and make the app look good. I find picking a problem that lets you put a big map on the screen helps with the latter.
- dghlsakjg 4mo agoTo a large degree, this is how the real world works too.
- newtonianrules 4mo agoAnd it drives the mini-MENSAs of the world insane.
- 9rx 4mo agoAbsolutely. Which is why the hackathon was conceived: to serve as an escape from the real world. All good things must come to an end, I suppose.
- asveikau 4mo agoWhen I first read about the hackathon concept, it was a bunch of OpenBSD developers getting together to work on stuff like cryptography or drivers. I think it was from Facebook where I first heard it as some bullshit corporate event. The idea of a "winner" seems to misunderstand what should be a goal. It's not a competition. It's collaboration.