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To a large degree, this is how the real world works too.

• newtonianrules 5mo ago
  And it drives the mini-MENSAs of the world insane.
• 9rx 5mo ago
  Absolutely. 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 5mo ago
    When 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.
    • sgerenser 5mo ago
      I’ve always heard of hackathons as being a competition with judges and a winner.
      • asveikau 5mo ago
        Sounds like you only know the corporate or post-commercialized version, and not the original concept. The entire point of my comment.