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Good call on ditching the extended pregnancy metaphor. Previous post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7970809 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7970809

• aroman 12y ago
  Hah, in retrospect, I agree. I guess I couldn't resist the pun. That change was actually made by the editor at Facebook, who did an excellent job of helping condense my original post and adapting it for a wider audience. I also added in the bit about "what are hackers and hackathons?": If the words “hacker” and “hackathon” evoke mental images of scary-looking criminals breaking into computers, I can assure you we're nothing like that. Hackers, in the original spirit of the term, are programmers and designers who use technology to build things — not destroy things. Hackathons are events where hackers of all kinds come together to collaborate on new projects and compete for prizes, often on college campuses.
  • jmgrosen 12y ago
    You should try some "real" hacking some time! That is, the kind the scary-looking criminals do, but for good (or simply fun). CTFs are probably the best way to get started -- check out PicoCTF, one specifically for high schoolers. The starting challenges might be easy for someone with programming knowledge, but the higher-pointed ones require some real domain-specific knowledge ;)