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Re:Want a Ticket to eCommerce Hackathon? First You’ll Have t... by mglinski on Friday June 29, 2012 @12:14PM (#4177385)
{"success":true,"message":"Thanks for playing! In the meanwhile, why don't you share your achievement on FB + Twitter and help us spread the good word? Head over to the 'url' parameter.","url":"http://ecommercehackday.com/share,totalTime:260 seconds"}

Eating pizza makes coding double hard for me, I should have had less then 3 mins for that puzzle, but I just don't think this was even remotely hard enough of a puzzle to weed out people for serious eCommerce development/hacking? Submit a few HTTP requests and you pass the tests? Besides filtering out people who don't know jQuery and console.log, I don't think this was a very good test/quiz for what they are looking for. I think they should be looking for the people who can create these simple puzzles from scratch in X time instead of the people who can solve them.

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Re:Want a Ticket to eCommerce Hackathon? First You’ll Have t... by qw on Friday June 29, 2012 @03:45PM (#4178674)
I used 1.5 minutes, but I spent probably 30 seconds or more starting the text editor and opening a custom html document with the form values.

It has to be said that I had already made tools for converting the two first challenges :-)

I think they should have added some additional puzzles like fixing a bug in a JavaScript function or something, but it is a good way of making sure that the free tickets goes to someone that has some experience.

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Re:Want a Ticket to eCommerce Hackathon? First You’ll Have t... by mschonfeld on Friday June 29, 2012 @12:22PM (#4177442)
You can really solve this in a number of different ways... jQuery is just the easiest way because I've included a basic snippet there...

The puzzle part was merely a way to weave out people who can't even figure out basic documentation, and disrupt the workflow of those who can during hackathons...

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Re:Want a Ticket to eCommerce Hackathon? First You’ll Have t... by mglinski on Friday June 29, 2012 @12:31PM (#4177486)
Yea, as I read through the comments here I understood that was the idea. It's just I was expecting something more.... substantial to get "invited" to a hackathon, especially if you only know my email address and that I can construct valid HTTP requests in the language/program of my choice. For example, not including the jQuery library in the source code would have been better imo, so we would at least have to problem solve a little. Just my thoughts, I wish I could go to something like this but I can't so I am just complaining here instead :)
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Re:Want a Ticket to eCommerce Hackathon? First You’ll Have t... by ScotterC on Friday June 29, 2012 @02:34PM (#4178260)
Guess I came late to the party. There was no jquery there when I did it and the fun thing I learned was I could load jquery from the console.
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Re:Want a Ticket to eCommerce Hackathon? First You’ll Have t... by mschonfeld on Friday June 29, 2012 @12:44PM (#4177565)
Oh I like this! Good idea. Removing jQuery now...
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Re:Want a Ticket to eCommerce Hackathon? First You’ll Have t... by trendynoise on Friday June 29, 2012 @02:03PM (#4178055)
So I solved the puzzle about an hour ago and received an email within about 5 minutes after finishing it. When I went to register for the event though, there was no option to sign up as developer/hacker. The field only has N/A next to it on the event brite page.

Is it supposed to be like that?

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Re:Want a Ticket to eCommerce Hackathon? First You’ll Have t... by Ataub24 on Friday June 29, 2012 @03:03PM (#4178432)
no you didn't get the real invite. It will come later today or over the weekend. It will be a ticket, not a sign up.
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Re:Want a Ticket to eCommerce Hackathon? First You’ll Have t... by aeurielesn on Friday June 29, 2012 @01:40PM (#4177896)
I jQuerify'd it
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Re:Want a Ticket to eCommerce Hackathon? First You’ll Have t... by aliston on Friday June 29, 2012 @01:52PM (#4177981)
I learned you can use curl with session cookies from this little challenge. Yeah, you probably don't need to be an elite hacker to solve it, but it's still a pretty cool way to give out invites...
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