Hackathons are like gyms
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Hackathons are like gyms
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#4Hackathons are also like gyms in that too much of them results in injury. Be careful not to get too carried away, folks. Last semester, I went to around a dozen hackathons. I had a lot of fun and made some great connections, but I don't think I actually accomplished very much in terms of productive code output.
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#5hackathons are indeed very supportive learning environments, just make sure to comprehensively relearn topics picked up at a hackathon
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#6I think you got the right idea here...but the brogrammer rhetoric just completely fails to relate to me as a female in tech.
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#7Hackathons are also like gyms in that too much of them results in injury. Be careful not to get too carried away, folks. Last semester, I went to around a dozen hackathons. I had a lot of fun and made some great connections, but I don't think I actually accomplished very much in terms of productive code output.
Now, do you really think people get injured at a hackathon?
this is the worst account of negative physical effects brought on by hackathons I've seen: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5302940
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#8Hackathons are a great supplement to accelerate learning, but anyone who wants to build decent products needs to learn things the right way at some point.
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#9I think you got the right idea here...but the brogrammer rhetoric just completely fails to relate to me as a female in tech.
Stop victimizing yourself. There was nothing "brogrammer" about this post. Females go to gyms too!