My Love and Hate Relationship with Hackathons
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My Love and Hate Relationship with Hackathons
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Re: My Love and Hate Relationship with Hackathons
#2Aren't most of your "hates" about hackathons related to in-person hackathons, yet earlier in the article you say you just attended your first, which was an online hackathon? (which of-course they all are these days) I'm a bit puzzled at how you can hate elements of in-person hackathons if you've never attended one.
Re: My Love and Hate Relationship with Hackathons
#3Aren't most of your "hates" about hackathons related to in-person hackathons, yet earlier in the article you say you just attended your first, which was an online hackathon? (which of-course they all are these days) I'm a bit puzzled at how you can hate elements of in-person hackathons if you've never attended one.
Maybe he hates the idea or experiences he's heard of, for in-person ones enough to never give it a shot. Which kinda detracts from the article's legitimacy, IMO.
I went to one with a few friends and it was pretty fun, if exhausting. Almost like not all hackathons are the exact same thing.
Re: My Love and Hate Relationship with Hackathons
#4Michael David Crawford protested a Hacker Dojo event by calling the fire department and pulling the overloaded traps the computers were hooked up to. He claimed nothing would ever come of the projects being developed and that they are using the hackers to get ideas.
The whole point of a hackathon is to have hackers meet VC people.
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#5A hackaton can be a fun excuse to experiment with random, but when I learned about the pan european hackaton against the corona virus organised by the EU commission I didn't know if I should to laugh or cry. Its like children playing doctor:
Re: My Love and Hate Relationship with Hackathons
#6Michael David Crawford protested a Hacker Dojo event by calling the fire department and pulling the overloaded traps the computers were hooked up to. He claimed nothing would ever come of the projects being developed and that they are using the hackers to get ideas. The whole point of a hackathon is to have hackers meet VC people.
Death notice for Michael David Crawford:
https://soylentnews.org/meta/article.pl?sid=19/03/26/0356205
Although it's not a good idea to overload electrical circuits, he said he had serious mental issues.
Re: My Love and Hate Relationship with Hackathons
#7It's important to distinguish between the different hackathons.
There's corporate, VC, meetup, etc.
I would read the fine print very carefully before signing on for a corporate or VC-sponsored hackathon.
Re: My Love and Hate Relationship with Hackathons
#8A hackaton can be a fun excuse to experiment with random, but when I learned about the pan european hackaton against the corona virus organised by the EU commission I didn't know if I should to laugh or cry. Its like children playing doctor: https://euvsvirus.org/
Institutionalized Engineer's syndrome, to be fair however doctors have their own version of the syndrome so it's fair.
on edit: evidently I really like to be fair.
Re: My Love and Hate Relationship with Hackathons
#9I find the time constraint to be a strength (used to do these in college - won some prizes, sometimes didn’t finish in time). It’s a beautiful thing to work on an ambitious thing against a clock, knowing that if you fail you can walk away. The ticking clock forces you to put your ego and perfectionism aside and ask questions of the interesting people around you.
Re: My Love and Hate Relationship with Hackathons
#10I can relate. A few years ago, I wrote this piece: Why hackathons are for wankers! Or how to hack a hackathon? [1]
[1] https://medium.com/@mispronounced/why-hackathons-are-for-wan...