Re:Hackathon hustlers who make a living from corporate codin...
by nikcub on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @08:03PM
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Sounds like perfect prep for a career as a developer
Re:Hackathon hustlers who make a living from corporate codin...
by pawadu on Thursday April 06, 2017 @07:55AM
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This is basically every sales guy I have ever met.
Re:Hackathon hustlers who make a living from corporate codin...
by joeevans1000 on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @08:32PM
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I've seen this sort of thing happen many times and been in similar shoes. It is very disheartening.
Re:Hackathon hustlers who make a living from corporate codin...
by JohnJamesRambo on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @10:31PM
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How is a PowerPoint presentation hacking at all???
Re:Hackathon hustlers who make a living from corporate codin...
by filoleg on Thursday April 06, 2017 @10:12AM
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Because you call yourself a hacker while doing it, duh
Re:Hackathon hustlers who make a living from corporate codin...
by bogidon on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @10:30PM
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Ugh, that's ridiculous. There should be some form of accountability system for hackathons. Maybe like charitynavigator.org.
We thought hard about an actually useful finance app on this very limited smart watch, discarding any accounting or similar beacause input using three buttons is too cumbersome if you have a mobile phone in your pocket a few inches away.
We ended up creating a watch app that showed you the route to the next ATM on a map, along with a description of the route. Technically pretty challenging since we had to generate map tiles on a remote server and load them onto the watch. Also, each image had to be sent in two chunks since the transfer buffer was smaller than the screen...
Another group just assumed the Pebble had a camera, color display and a microphone and had no demo, just a power point presentation. They ended up as winners...