How the Collison brothers turned ‘seven lines of code’ into Stripe

Re:How the Collison brothers turned ‘seven lines of code’ in... by smsm42 on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @02:36PM (#14903879)

I suspect whoever wrote that sentence has an extremely vague idea of what a hackathon is ("some coding contest??").

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Re:How the Collison brothers turned ‘seven lines of code’ in... by hobofan on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @04:45AM (#14908947)

Which is already a better picture than what most people have when I tell them I attended a hackathon: "So you all get together to try and hack the security system of a company?"

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Re:How the Collison brothers turned ‘seven lines of code’ in... by smsm42 on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @04:13PM (#14914174)

Surprisingly, that description may be exactly true if you understand the word "hack" just right :)

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