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Re:Salesforce $1 Million Hackathon Update - Two Winners by makomk on Monday December 02, 2013 @05:28PM (#6837042)
The obvious place to draw the line is the point where the code you wrote isn't equally available to you and all the other competitors.
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Re:Salesforce $1 Million Hackathon Update - Two Winners by dllthomas on Monday December 02, 2013 @10:14PM (#6838248)
This, coupled with a requirement about being clear what pieces are new.
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Re:Salesforce $1 Million Hackathon Update - Two Winners by SilasX on Tuesday December 03, 2013 @02:48AM (#6839144)
And obviated by the judges having no easy way to learn and isolate which "part" of the app they're testing, and how such compartmentalization goes strongly against human psychology.
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Re:Salesforce $1 Million Hackathon Update - Two Winners by dllthomas on Tuesday December 03, 2013 @08:49AM (#6840176)
I don't pretend it'll be "perfect", but it should let decisions fall (noisily) around what we think of as "fair" (since we're all running that assessment through the same hardware) which is really what we're looking for.
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