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by theyCallMeSwift 11y ago
Most people don't know this, but Dell actually has an amazing line of computers that come with Ubuntu on them already. Best part - there's a team of people who make sure there's 100% driver support for everything on the comp
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by theyCallMeSwift 11y ago
The single biggest indicator of the quality of a hackathon is who is organizing it. I've seen countless events where the people putting on the event are doing it for selfish or greedy reasons, and 9 times out of 10 those events look l
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by theyCallMeSwift 12y ago
Company run hackathons != student hackathons. http://theycallmeswift.com/2013/10/25/dont-throw-that-hackat...
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by theyCallMeSwift 12y ago
One thing that the author missed, but might shed some light on your point, is that many of the top student hackers in this movement actually do specialize in a single tool or technique across many events. Great example: Shariq Hashme (the
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by theyCallMeSwift 12y ago
I think the thing that you have to remember is that there are a lot of different types of learners out there. From the sound of it, the hackathon environment is not conducive to your particular learning style (which is totally fine). Hack
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by theyCallMeSwift 12y ago
If you're a student and are interested in finding a hackathon near you to participate in, check out https://mlh.io/events for a list of great events in North America and https://mlh.io/eu for events in
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by theyCallMeSwift 12y ago
Nope, they actually have a public API. Sounds like you might want to check out the FAQ for answer to your other question. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
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by theyCallMeSwift 12y ago
For those that are curious, here's ~1400 of them: https://gist.github.com/theycallmeswift/6e479d61b772543aa613
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by theyCallMeSwift 12y ago
+1. If you have a story to share, email us at hi@mlh.io. We'd love to share it with our community!
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by theyCallMeSwift 12y ago
> The only other thing I'd love to see from hackathons is a little more focus on health of the participants. Me too. Our most recent participant survey said that the most important three things to hackers were: 1. Fast Internet 2.
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by theyCallMeSwift 12y ago
It's amazing how far things have come. I remember when there were only maybe 5 student hackathons happening every year. Now there are like 150 and they're happening all over the world. /me wishes was still student sometimes
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by theyCallMeSwift 12y ago
How many hackathons has JMG been to since his first one?
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by theyCallMeSwift 12y ago
For anyone just tuning in - links to all of this morning's talks are in the description of the livestream.
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by theyCallMeSwift 12y ago
Glad to see that Hacker League is getting some much needed development love. Keep up the great work!
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by theyCallMeSwift 12y ago
The author of YoAuth (Bilawal) is one of the awesome student hackers helping to bring the hackathon movement to the UK. http://mlh.io/about/team#uk-team
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by theyCallMeSwift 12y ago
Wow this looks great! Congratulations on launch.
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by theyCallMeSwift 13y ago
So it seems like the new hot way to do integration testing with RSpec + Features [1]. Any sources on doing this well? I find myself writing methods that read like cucumber. [1] http://pivotallabs.com/getting-by-with-rspec-
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by theyCallMeSwift 13y ago
This is amazing. You should arrange these by trustworthiness http://themetapicture.com/the-trustworthiness-of-beards/
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Students build auto-tracking Nerf turret with Arduino and Kinect(youtube.com)
12 points by theyCallMeSwift 13y ago|7 comments
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by theyCallMeSwift 13y ago
For those interested, here are some other posts about the acquisition: - http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/12/03/intels-mashery-acqu... - http://pando.com/2013/12/03/new-y
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by theyCallMeSwift 13y ago
There was definitely a noticeable presence from Canadian hackers this season. Waterloo and Toronto are both in the top 20 schools actually. MLH will be working with those schools and potentially others to get some Canadian hackathons on th
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by theyCallMeSwift 13y ago
Good catch, thanks!
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by theyCallMeSwift 13y ago
The big goal of this MLH season was to encourage new hackers to join the existing community. Specifically, attendance points encourage hackers to travel to other universities / hackathons that they might not normally go to and to finis
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by theyCallMeSwift 13y ago
What's really incredible is that Maryland didn't get attendance points for just showing up. They got the points for completing hacks. So over the last 6 weeks, 160 hackers completed hacks at the official MLH events.
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by theyCallMeSwift 13y ago
I've actually been seeing a trend where more and more companies are actually trying to recruit hackers from state schools. I think people are finally starting to get it. Additionally, I could not be more thrilled with the high number
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Maryland Wins the Fall 2013 Hackathon Season(mlh.io)
50 points by theyCallMeSwift 13y ago|23 comments
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by theyCallMeSwift 13y ago
Don't forget the trophy too. Whatever school has the most points at the end of the season gets to keep it. http://mlh.io/img/trophy/4.jpg http://mlh.io/img/trophy/5.jpg
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by theyCallMeSwift 13y ago
We'll see :) Remember, Rutgers hackers only earn 1 attendance point for hacking at HackRU since it's at their home school, but other schools will get 2 points. Every hack is gonna count.
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How do university hackers stack up?(mlh.io)
18 points by theyCallMeSwift 13y ago|10 comments
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by theyCallMeSwift 13y ago
Great read. I strongly believe that a very high-touch approach to customer support and development is the way to go. It's very humbling to look at your software from the consumer's prospective. More like this plz!

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