Hackathon winners are dominated by polished design and clever presentations. Working code is often an afterthought let alone readable, maintainable, scalable co

Hackathon winners are dominated by polished design and clever presentations. Working code is often an afterthought let alone readable, maintainable, scalable code with proper test coverage. I highly doubt you'd find Linus Torvalds, DHH, Guido van Rossum or any other highly productive programmers competing in a hackathon. Maybe they have good reasons. Also this is worth reading: http://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/why-hackathons-suck http://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/why-hackathons-suc...