theyCallMeSwift

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by theyCallMeSwift 14y ago
Great writeup. I think you hit the nail on the head by identifying several key components of a good hackathon experience. I think you might be asking yourself the wrong question when you go to these events though. Over the past two years,
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Startup Concept for Sale: Locazy(thenextweb.com)
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Loader.io: Load Testing for your API(loader.io)
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by theyCallMeSwift 14y ago
I totally agree that short demos don't do these hackers justice and that being selective on admission also not an attractive option either. In fact, I'm not sure if there actually is a best answer for how to handle the situation. On some
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by theyCallMeSwift 14y ago
Well, when you have an awesome event and you're fully transparent about what's going on and where the money goes, things like sponsorship get pretty simple :) Everyone involved gets some good value out of PennApps (which is why you guys ha
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by theyCallMeSwift 14y ago
Couldn't agree more with everything said in this article. Well done. I want to reiterate on the fact that multi-tier demoing just does not work. While the prizes and judging are important pieces of every hackathon, they really are not the
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Hacker League adds resumes to hacker profiles(blog.hackerleague.org)
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by theyCallMeSwift 14y ago
Despite our completely disjoint opinions of the devil's fruit, I tip my hat to you sir.
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I hate Honeydew or: Why you should always ask "Why?"(theycallmeswift.com)
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by theyCallMeSwift 14y ago
Updated. Thanks for the suggestion
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by theyCallMeSwift 14y ago
I picked this guy http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/IM+Fell+English
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by theyCallMeSwift 14y ago
I agree that they have no reason to listen. In all likelihood, no single thing that any one person can do is going to get them to care at all. It's more about the collective voice and reiterating that you can't treat your developer commun
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by theyCallMeSwift 14y ago
I'll gladly manually merge in this case. It doesn't scale obviously, it's more novelty than anything else.
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by theyCallMeSwift 14y ago
Have any specific ones in mind? I'm definitely open to this. Not happy with the readability
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The tyranny and oppression bit is satire. And disallowing the creation of third party clients is only a minor piece of a much larger puzzle. When good services like IFTTT are forced to stop using the API, there's obviously something wrong
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by theyCallMeSwift 14y ago
It's not about Twitter owing me, or anyone else for that matter, anything. If you release an API under the premise that developers are going to build apps that enhance and refine your existing service, then it is your responsibility to mai
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The Declaration of Twitter Independence(twitterindependence.com)
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Announcing the Foursquare Global Hackathon: Powered by Hacker League(hackerleague.org)
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How to build an online presence(grardb.tumblr.com)
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All the hacks from e-commerce hack day(hackerleague.org)
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Get your laugh on at Comedy Hack Day in NYC (Sept 8 & 9)(comedyhackday.org)
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Make Friends, Not Contacts(lifehacker.com)
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by theyCallMeSwift 14y ago
+1. Where did this idea that weekend hacks should become startups come from? Hackathons are about building communities and making awesome stuff for the sake of making awesome stuff, not making money.
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by theyCallMeSwift 14y ago
Check out all the awesome stuff that got built here: https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/hackn-jill/hacks
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by theyCallMeSwift 14y ago
Correlated.org limits you to the questions they ask every day. Wedgies is empowering it's users to ask whatever they want. Think about how many more data points that is.
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by theyCallMeSwift 14y ago
Online surveys need to be "less boxer and more brief". Wedgies is doing a damn good job of solving that if you ask me.
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Hacking the Midwest(sendgrid.com)
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Excuse me, that's not an integration test(theycallmeswift.com)
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Using SendGrid with Node.js(theycallmeswift.com)
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The student hacks from the Rutgers Hackathon(hackerleague.org)
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