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There is art in science, too.
It's a word without an agreed upon definition that keeps changing. One could probably argue there is art in everything humans do
Then 'art' is soul!
We are teen hackers from around the world who code together
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Re: We are teen hackers from around the world who code together
#72I recently supervised a Hackclub Counterspell event at our office. I was there only in the capacity of being an adult in the room, for health and safety and safeguarding reasons. The entire event had been organised by a single teenager, with mini workshops, hack time and a global show and tell. Kids that attended were not only coders, but musicians and artists as well. The whole event was amazing, with more pizza tha…
> Kids that attended were not only coders, but musicians and artists as well. Creatives are Creatives. Don't reduce yourself as a programmer purely to a scientist. There is an art in what we do. Edit: if you disagree then tell me why I have a religiously strong opinion on spaces vs tabs
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Re: We are teen hackers from around the world who code together
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which is the original meaning.
The original meaning was not only positive: "hacker"/"hacking" always had some subversive/countercultural (though clearly not criminal) undertone in it. In other words: hackers were only "positive" for the "in-group"; to the establishment, they were annoying (up to somewhat dangerous).
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Re: We are teen hackers from around the world who code together
#74I recently supervised a Hackclub Counterspell event at our office. I was there only in the capacity of being an adult in the room, for health and safety and safeguarding reasons. The entire event had been organised by a single teenager, with mini workshops, hack time and a global show and tell. Kids that attended were not only coders, but musicians and artists as well. The whole event was amazing, with more pizza tha…
> Kids that attended were not only coders, but musicians and artists as well. Creatives are Creatives. Don't reduce yourself as a programmer purely to a scientist. There is an art in what we do. Edit: if you disagree then tell me why I have a religiously strong opinion on spaces vs tabs
> Edit: if you disagree then tell me why I have a religiously strong opinion on spaces vs tabs
Because you did not think this through logically I assume. There is only one answer: indent using tabs, align using spaces. This way the text never looks "broken" on any other machine, and personal preference for how deep indentations should be can be applied.
I think people mostly form strong religious opinions because they want to belong to a group or feel a sense of purpose. Do you feel that when defending your stance on tabs vs spaces?
But I fail to see how this is related to programmers being creatives
Re: We are teen hackers from around the world who code together
#75This is quite awesome to see. Kudos to all involved.
Re: We are teen hackers from around the world who code together
#76How is this all financed? The front-page talks about giving away "Get free Raspberry Pis, Framework Laptops, iPads, and more." Oh they do have transparency on it. I was confused about the "fiscal sponsorship" tab since it appears also to be a product they are selling at 7% of income. They appear to do well with nearly $6 million USD(?) in their "checking account) Good for them.
501c3 nonprofits can ‘fiscally sponsor’ projects that are too small for their own nonprofit but still need all the same legal/accounting/finance support. Some of that $6M in their checking account will ‘belong’ to the projects they are sponsoring. Basically like a nonprofit incubator.
Re: We are teen hackers from around the world who code together
#77How is this all financed? The front-page talks about giving away "Get free Raspberry Pis, Framework Laptops, iPads, and more." Oh they do have transparency on it. I was confused about the "fiscal sponsorship" tab since it appears also to be a product they are selling at 7% of income. They appear to do well with nearly $6 million USD(?) in their "checking account) Good for them.
Founder here. Donations are the vast majority of Hack Club's revenue and make it possible and free for teenagers. Donate here: https://hackclub.com/philanthropy/
We also make a very small amount of revenue through the fiscal sponsorship program the other commenter mentioned: https://hackclub.com/fiscal-sponsorship/
Re: We are teen hackers from around the world who code together
#78Hey! I work here. Happy to answer any questions!
Couple of questions: 1) I see the mention of highschool throughout, what about younger hackers that are 13+ (7th & 8th grade)? 2) The directory ( https://directory.hackclub.com/ ) is not working for me. Are there existing clubs in Asia? Specifically Taipei, Taiwan.
Hello frankacter, Hong Kong hackclubber here ^-^
there will be a Hack Club Highschool Hackathon hosted in Taipei at March and they'll announce more information on instagram.com/hackit.tw
Re: We are teen hackers from around the world who code together
#79How is this all financed? The front-page talks about giving away "Get free Raspberry Pis, Framework Laptops, iPads, and more." Oh they do have transparency on it. I was confused about the "fiscal sponsorship" tab since it appears also to be a product they are selling at 7% of income. They appear to do well with nearly $6 million USD(?) in their "checking account) Good for them.
Hack Club is also 100% transparent, and you can see all of our spending here: https://hcb.hackclub.com/hq
Re: We are teen hackers from around the world who code together
#80this is so cool. hats off to the creators. I bet it's a ton of logistics to manage. I surfed around the site but couldn't find any information re: volunteering with them? I wonder if they need them and what kind of commitment it would be? I'd be interested!
They mostly seem to be "by and for high schoolers". This is what I was told when I was asking how I could help with my son setting something up.
Hack Club is run by adults (you can see the team page here: https://hackclub.com/team), and every aspect of Hack Club is also built by teenagers contributing to everything from HCB (our fiscal sponsership platform) to High Seas (https://highseas.hackclub.com), a program we're running right now.
Happy to help if you still need help setting something up for your son :)