Wow. 100,000 projects submitted? With that many projects, you'd think the odds would make it that one wasn't terrible.
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#32The Stupid Font is actually very cool. I am going to use it for my blog title. So sorry Stupid Font creator: You failed - I find your idea useful.
How does copyright handle a case like this?
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#33How is this different from every other Hackathon?
self awareness?
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#34I was at Stuipd Hackathon. I've never been to anything so unabashedly motivated to be pointless and irreverent. Workshops included: "3d printed sex toys", "how to be come alan ginsberg in 30 minutes", and "pissing off my landlord". All the projects there were so beautiful because they were liberated from the whole motif in tech of products constantly "revolutionizing field-xyz and solving 1000 major world problems".…
Sessions could have also included "Stealing from Whole Foods" and "Pissing off reporters"
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#35I wish I knew about this. I wrote a file server that serves your webroot directory over League of Legends chat. Any time you request a file that is more than a few bytes, your chat gets flooded with base64 strings... The extraslow web.
Oh man, this is gold. Seconded, I've gotta see a video.
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#36How regularly is the Stupid Hackathon held? Fall and spring? Georgia Tech student here, I would seriously fly up to participate.
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#37Can someone do this in the Bay Area? I'll help.
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#38This is incredible. I think a few things are worth noting: 1) these "terrible idea" hackathon projects were so much more _sexual_ than your typical hackathon. This goes with the indications that the sex-tech space is anathema more for market reasons (VCs want to stay family friendly) than because sex-tech isn't fun or interesting to people. With the chance of funding not on the table, a healthy mix of projects veered…
I found that interesting to, and straightaway noticed the high # of women participants - in fact that made me guess it was based in NYC before reading up on the background to the event and finding that it is indeed based there (which I hadn't heard of before). I thought it was sexual in an assured self-aware way rather than giggly or tacky.
I was especially struck by the egg-timer clock.
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#39The rearview mirror one is actually a really cool experiment. I wonder if eventually you'd just get used to it (although you probably wouldn't get used to all of the neck and joint pain from trying to do things so awkwardly).
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#40Aren't we all participating in this hackathon on a global scale except for a very small number of us who build something people want?
These are intentionally useless ;).