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Re:Two Harvard University Alumni Win Salesforce $1M Hackatho... by eskimoroll on Friday November 22, 2013 @01:08PM (#6782516)
Wow, that's messed up. My team and I could have tacked on Salesforce to our existing product (like several of the top teams), but we read over the rules several times and made the conscious decision to build everything from scratch so that our entry would count.
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Re:Two Harvard University Alumni Win Salesforce $1M Hackatho... by xauronx on Friday November 22, 2013 @01:13PM (#6782553)
Yeah, we knew this was going to happen after hearing that. We should have just aborted, but decided to be hopeful that it would be tastefully handled. I guess that was too much to hope for.
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Re:Two Harvard University Alumni Win Salesforce $1M Hackatho... by colabi on Saturday November 23, 2013 @08:11AM (#6785834)
Their strategy at this point if the high ups are stubborn will be to wait out the weekend for activity to die off. People get on with their lives. The thing to do now is to reach out to companies who could sponsor ending this thing right. prize or no prize. i think we organize to find a Microsoft or oracle who could host an evening
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