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What's your product and who is your target user? Where do they spend their time? LinkedIn, Reddit, and HN won't help if you're trying to reach, for example, teenage girls. I collec…

Avi Flombaum gave an excellent talk on this a few months ago. He dove into the six different types of technical interviews (cultural fit, brain teasers, whiteboard coding, cs trivi…

More design pattern inspiration: http://littlebigdetails.com/ http://mobile-patterns.com/ Also, Smashing Mag has occasional great articles on design patterns and ux.

That's a fair point. I left it out of the blog post b/c it's a more complex issue that probably merits its own post. It seems there's only 2 ways to go when hosting an event -- ope…

sure, having four devs organize this event would have been nice for credibility, but they wouldn't have necessarily throw a better hackathon just by being devs. there's a learning …

What I'm saying is that it wasn't ideal and we'll try to do it better next time around.

That's not entirely accurate. We needed to control the number of attendees to accomodate the venue's space constraints. We set aside 100 tickets, 50 male and 50 female. The male ti…

That's an interesting point, and one I hadn't thought of. I'd argue that it probably depends on the nature of the event and what you're looking to get out of it. (e.g. if you're co…