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If you don't like them you don't attend them it is as simple. For me hackathons are great place to meet people with familiar interests and share experience.
by robsun 12y ago
If you don't like them you don't attend them it is as simple. For me hackathons are great place to meet people with familiar interests and share experience.
- l-p 12y agoI concur. I Landed my last job by meeting someone at a hackathon. I found my current mid/long-term project doing another hackathon with the same person where we had the opportunity to develop a prototype and see that it worked. I like hackathons because it's the only way for me to have two full days to actually _make_ something.
- calibraxis 12y agoThe author is building alternatives: civic hacking meetups. So for people who hack the institutions around them, it never has to be as simple as going or not. Personally, this cultural critique is far more interesting than any hackathon I've seen. I was even at a company which hilariously tried using hackathons to pay off technical debt, instead of simply scheduling it. (The damned Scrum Master was surprised I had no intention of staying during weekends; somehow he thought this plan would overjoy me, since I claimed we mismanaged technical debt.)