Salesforce $1 Million Hackathon Update - Two Winners

Re:Salesforce $1 Million Hackathon Update - Two Winners by corresation on Monday December 02, 2013 @05:47PM (#6837161)

It's referring to human nature.

If you tell people there is a million dollar prize at stake (and to add to the financial stakes, charge hundreds per contestant), and details of the problem they will be solving, 100% of your contestants will try to solve as much of the problem as they can in advance (while, most likely, declaring it a crime that anyone else did so).

Anyone who claims otherwise is the sort of person you should protect your wallet around.

It is impossible to guard against this.

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Re:Salesforce $1 Million Hackathon Update - Two Winners by melvinmt on Monday December 02, 2013 @07:05PM (#6837563)

How can you work in advance if the hackathon isn't announced yet?

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Re:Salesforce $1 Million Hackathon Update - Two Winners by SilasX on Tuesday December 03, 2013 @02:44AM (#6839138)

Because the "prompt" (basically, make a cool app) was revealed a long time before the hackathon, which IMHO was a big mistake. It's much easier to prevent such cheating if you make the early work irrelevant.

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Re:Salesforce $1 Million Hackathon Update - Two Winners by rhizome on Monday December 02, 2013 @07:51PM (#6837759)

It's not human nature, because I'm basically asking examples of a software project or application that has been rewritten to the point of rote reimplementation.

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