pulak

Unfortunately, the extension only gives context to one of the three figures mentioned at the beginning of the post..

Not so sure. I like learning at a pace in which I'm really understanding the technologies that I'm picking up. For PennApps, we do a series of tech talks over the course the week before the hackathon, and I encourage students who don't know how to code to attend those talks. I think "learning" at a hackathon can leave a lot of gaps in knowledge, which is not necessarily terrible but not the strategy I would immediately advise.

What happens if I've deleted the file from my downloads folder? Is that considered to be "downloaded before"?

And now it's going up and down sporadically. This is what I get for trying to process email at 4 AM, I guess...

Top 20 apps (full list at https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/pennapps-spring-2013...) and their universities are:

Artichoke University of Michigan

Astoria MIT

better auth University of Michigan

Cartesia University of Pennsylvania

Cloud Sequencer University of Michigan

facewash Kent State University

Hamilton Carnegie Mellon Univ

Hot Cocoa MIT

HTML5 Virtual Game Controller The University of Texas at Austin

Inventory University of California Berkeley

Skye University of Waterloo

Skynet Command University of Pennsylvania

SmoothRide University of Michigan

SocialContribute Penn State

SoundSculptr Bergen County Academies High School, The Dalton School (High School)

SparkTab Lehgh

TakeNote UPenn, UMich, Lehigh

virtual perspective ETH Zürich

Webtube University of Pennsylvania

ZeitPlanner University of Pennsylvania

PennApps is funded solely through our awesome sponsors! No money from Penn at all :)

A number of hackathons have done this to great success. If you want to expand a hackathon beyond ~40 teams, you do need to figure out a way to structure demos better, since less 2 minutes per demo is too little time to really show off what you built, in my opinion. And I don't think it's a poor idea to go beyond 40 teams for a hackathon like this (because then you have to start being super selective of who you let in, which sucks for teams who are new to hackathons).

This is interestingly non-viral. Although it's one of the coolest links I've seen in a while, it takes much longer to "consume" this, and sharing doesn't have until after consumption. Interesting to note how much less frequently this was shared than some much interesting "popular links".

In case you're a non-Penn student interested in participating in the future, please reach out to me (my HN username @seas.upenn.edu)

Please email my gmail, i'm pulak1.

You may also want to follow #PennApps on Twitter!

I don't see anything here unique to the sports industry, just an instance of a single sports team having a perspective of social media that I think is common to many entities across a variety of industries.

Also, a minor note: teams can push content to "fans" on Facebook as well. Status updates from things I like do show up on my news feed.

It's a deceptive listing, but in the description on cars.com you can see that these are $299 per month for 72 months

Nice job, Dan. Always rooting for fellow Penn guys :)

Do you expect to automate this any time soon?