Re-Inventing the Hackathon • Hacker News Board

Re: Re-Inventing the Hackathon

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Post by blhack » Mon, Sep 16, 2013, 6:23 PM UTC

iancarroll wrote: post #10

Their free ticket thing was really easy. I mean, come on.

Really? I have no idea what they're even asking. Is it because I don't play video games? The context about mario and banging all night is greek to me.

Re: Re-Inventing the Hackathon

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Post by priley » Mon, Sep 16, 2013, 6:25 PM UTC

iancarroll wrote: post #10

Their free ticket thing was really easy. I mean, come on.

I gave them something much harder to break, but I guess they wanted anything to be able to break it.

Re: Re-Inventing the Hackathon

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Post by thatthatis » Mon, Sep 16, 2013, 6:26 PM UTC

binarymax wrote: post #3

Mandatory demos. Banning of slide decks. Thank you! I had the pleasure of attending AngelHack london in April, and it was amazing. Keep up the great work!

Agreed. I've been at hackathons where 50% of teams just showed slides/mockups, a few had local server urls, and we were the only team demoing on a live URL.

I'm glad they're focusing even more on what you've actually built in a weekend vs what dreams you've spun.

Re: Re-Inventing the Hackathon

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Post by songzme » Mon, Sep 16, 2013, 6:30 PM UTC

Here is their challenge: bmljZSBkZWNvZGluZyB5b3VuZyBwYWRhd2FuIFVzZSB5b3UgbXVzdCBsZWFybmVyIGZyZWUgdGlja2V0IGNvZGU6IEhBQ0taSUxMQQ==

Reward, a coupon code that you can apply for a free ticket to an angelhack hackathon.

Re: Re-Inventing the Hackathon

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Post by patrick_curl » Mon, Sep 16, 2013, 6:33 PM UTC

I'd love to attend AngelHack, they need more hackathon's in Ohio -- I'm 45 minutes from Cincy and there's a HUGE dev community here..

Re: Re-Inventing the Hackathon

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Post by patrick_curl » Mon, Sep 16, 2013, 6:33 PM UTC

songzme wrote: post #14

Here is their challenge: bmljZSBkZWNvZGluZyB5b3VuZyBwYWRhd2FuIFVzZSB5b3UgbXVzdCBsZWFybmVyIGZyZWUgdGlja2V0IGNvZGU6IEhBQ0taSUxMQQ== Reward, a coupon code that you can apply for a free ticket to an angelhack hackathon.

Took me 3 seconds to solve lol.

Re: Re-Inventing the Hackathon

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Post by ggopman » Mon, Sep 16, 2013, 6:34 PM UTC

jlees wrote: post #9

Love the focus on demos and code reviews; many 'hackathons' are becoming anything but. Wish the through-the-night part would change, though, I feel that aspect makes these events less accessible. The bootcamp aspect is an interesting one. Would you accept apps that were built in HTML/JS and PhoneGapped? I've seen that approach used more and more at hackathons, due to speed. Android/iOS is definitely doable (I've buil…

Yea... we should definitely be considering teaching people how to utilize frameworks for languages they already know (PhoneGap, Blackberry OS, Appcelerator). We started with Android and iOS because at scale it's easier to find teachers for those than the others. It would be great if we could garner more support from PhoneGap, Appcelerator, Blackberry, etc

Re: Re-Inventing the Hackathon

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Sep 16, 2013, 6:37 PM UTC

blhack wrote: post #11

iancarroll wrote: post #10

Their free ticket thing was really easy. I mean, come on.

Really? I have no idea what they're even asking. Is it because I don't play video games? The context about mario and banging all night is greek to me.

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Re: Re-Inventing the Hackathon

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Post by mu_killnine » Mon, Sep 16, 2013, 6:42 PM UTC

blhack wrote: post #11

iancarroll wrote: post #10

Their free ticket thing was really easy. I mean, come on.

Really? I have no idea what they're even asking. Is it because I don't play video games? The context about mario and banging all night is greek to me.

The code they give looks a lot like my Balsamiq serial ;)

Re: Re-Inventing the Hackathon

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Post by krapp » Mon, Sep 16, 2013, 6:42 PM UTC

blhack wrote: post #11

iancarroll wrote: post #10

Their free ticket thing was really easy. I mean, come on.

Really? I have no idea what they're even asking. Is it because I don't play video games? The context about mario and banging all night is greek to me.

It's just a base64 encoded string.