Things Hackers don’t tell you about Hackathons

Re:Things Hackers don’t tell you about Hackathons by mrmekon on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @03:57AM (#14794972)

You left out a third group: C (or "systems" or "embedded") programmers. What am I going to do in a weekend that will be fun to show off? "We made a minimal binary IPC protocol over named pipes that is 2.5% faster than typical examples for a few certain types of data, on certain architectures, sometimes." Wooo!

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Re:Things Hackers don’t tell you about Hackathons by TeMPOraL on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @04:48AM (#14795151)

"...but for some specific inputs it literally sets the device on fire."

That would be something fun to show.

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Re:Things Hackers don’t tell you about Hackathons by d33 on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @04:14AM (#14795038)

You can do some pretty awesome things in Rust over a weekend and it counts as systems programming. Also, your quote sounds fun - it's just a matter of presenting it in a cool way ;)

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Re:Things Hackers don’t tell you about Hackathons by kobeya on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @04:05AM (#14795000)

I would go to that hackathon.

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