The post is about hackathons, but I'd argue that all of these reasons apply to hacking in general. Of course, that makes it a much less controversial thesis (th

The post is about hackathons, but I'd argue that all of these reasons apply to hacking in general. Of course, that makes it a much less controversial thesis (this is Hacker News, after all), but it raises the question: what's the value of hackathons in particular?