Would not support a company that peddles carbonated sugary junk. It's to blame for the obesity. Period.
Do you want to sell sugared water for the rest of your life? Or do you want to come with me and change the world?
The Coca-Cola Company offers $10K Prize to Re-Imagine the Soda Fountain
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#22Would not support a company that peddles carbonated sugary junk. It's to blame for the obesity. Period.
Do you want to sell sugared water for the rest of your life? Or do you want to come with me and change the world?
I mean selling stuff that isn't changing the world is fine. As long as it's not for the worse.
Coca cola is worse than say pot. It rots your teeth and your insides. There is no value in it. Yet they sell it and people buy it. It's dangerous.
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#23The Coca Cola Company pulled in nearly fifty billion dollars of revenue last year. They can afford to hire some industrial designers. These kind of corporate hackathons are just scams designed to allow the company to take advantage of hundreds or thousands of hours of skilled labor in exchange for pocket lint. It's ultimately detrimental for everyone trying to make an actual living in the field. Don't work on spec. E…
And yet nobody objects when Facebook runs a hackathon like this? Or is the food industry magically held to different standards than the tech industry?
What hackathon? You can run your own business in FB APIs, not just hand them over to FB.
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#24The Coca Cola Company pulled in nearly fifty billion dollars of revenue last year. They can afford to hire some industrial designers. These kind of corporate hackathons are just scams designed to allow the company to take advantage of hundreds or thousands of hours of skilled labor in exchange for pocket lint. It's ultimately detrimental for everyone trying to make an actual living in the field. Don't work on spec. E…
Except it
* Gives participants resume boosters
* Gives people direction on what to build in their spare time
* Gives a common goal for those that feel like it
* Offers college students some money (because it's probably not a well-employed
industrial designer that's going to win, because they aren't the ones
participating)
* Gets new ideas on the table, because cross-discipline innovation is where some
of the most novel innovation can be found
* Gets community feedback in the form of tangible products
* Can be used to scout new talentRe: The Coca-Cola Company offers $10K Prize to Re-Imagine the Soda Fountain
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Show me a weekend hackathon with half as big a prize pot.
Are those hackathons sponsored by one of the largest corporations in the world, one that is asking you to revolutionize a product for pennies on the dollar? It is essentially a corporate takeover of the hackathon without understanding of it at all. Most sponsored hackathons are, "Hey write for our API, here is food and $2K and some t-shirts." Coca-cola is just hitching on the whole notion of the hackathon, hoping som…
I'm obviously kinda biased as I'm running this on the Hacker Dojo's side, but how else would you run a hardware hackathon? Or are hackathons only for software? Are you in a position to make a company out of your alternative soda fountain, or is the offer to buy an idea really a kindness?
They have offered classes, support from their engineering teams, equipment to break, and a lot of other things I've never seen anybody else do before.
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#26Would not support a company that peddles carbonated sugary junk. It's to blame for the obesity. Period.
How absurd, would you blame Ford for deaths that result from street racing?
Overindulgence, like unsafe vehicle operation, is on the user.
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#28Saw a digital one in San Diego recently. It had a touch screen and allowed you to make your own flavors of lots of brands of soda. Vanilla coke, orange coke, vanilla sprite, peach Fanta, etc. The sodas it produced were predictably terrible.
I think you're referring to a CocaCola Freestyle, which was made with technology from Dean Kamen [1].
I'm actually like the Freestyle as you can get a Diet Coke with just a little bit of cherry in it (which is delicious).
1 - http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/oct2009/id20091...
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
And yet nobody objects when Facebook runs a hackathon like this? Or is the food industry magically held to different standards than the tech industry?
What hackathon? You can run your own business in FB APIs, not just hand them over to FB.
And if you have a better soda fountain and don't want to sell it you can sell your product directly to bars and restaurants to compete with Coca-Cola, or sell it to Pepsi?
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#30I'd design it like a Cobra to stress the fact that Soda is toxic... To each their own, but I like my hackathons to be about bettering the world.
Sweet delicious wonderful poison mmmm... I love Coke and other pops. I try to limit my intake though. I drink a lot of Yerba Mate tea too, and that supposedly has links to cancer (what doesn't these days). So I'm not going to worry too much about the health risks of pop. 10k is a pathetic prize though. Come on, I bet Coke spends more than that on dining out for their corporate leaders.
It's a huge prize by hackathon standards... how much would you think is reasonable for a team of 2-3 for a weekend of work?