I hate Hackathons
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I hate Hackathons
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Re: I hate Hackathons
#2I’m tired of hating. Let’s all be chill and like something
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#3I’m tired of hating. Let’s all be chill and like something
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#4Also see "game jams."
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#5I’m tired of hating. Let’s all be chill and like something
Better title: "How I personally think hackathons can be done right" but that's really not as catchy. Hate and outrage drives clicks.
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#6Very true - few people who won hackathons went on to achieve big things because its a marathon not a 48 hour race. If they did 1 to 2 week competitions I'd be more interested
Re: I hate Hackathons
#7I’m tired of hating. Let’s all be chill and like something
Sounds like you're hating on hating.
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#8Also see "game jams."
I dunno, game jams often produce great ideas that later can be (and historically have been) expanded to good full game.
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#9I must say, I have encountered free-form hackathons (category 3) at companies with no ideas provided by management, and no expectations. It happened at a team-building event at some nearby lake, only half of the people who were there even participated, and that was fine. People made games, stupid hacks, only one team came up with some cool tool that we kept around and used internally.
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#10Yeah this view is extremely negative. I think it depends a lot on the culture when you organize a company internal hackathon. I had good and bad hackathons so far. It depends a lot on the stress that is created. If the stress is too much it gets really quick really bad, but if there is just enough stress to make something and you can leave whenever you want, it's really beneficial.