It just seems like in order to get the most out of Hacker School one has to act with positive intent but otherwise entirely ignore the rules. It looks immensel

It just seems like in order to get the most out of Hacker School one has to act with positive intent but otherwise entirely ignore the rules. It looks immensely easy to fall into a trap of caring too much about the rules and not caring enough about the code, and I can imagine a large group of people trying to play along rather than try to become better "hackers". "Ohh, I'm sorry, you did actually just save us from three hours of bashing our head into a wall by recommending a specific algorithm, but you also broke the rules. For shame!"