Hackontest: Programming for the Brave
Hackontest won’t take place until this September, but it’ll take that long for the sane to prepare.
Here’s the skinny: if you’ve got game enough to put together a team, you’ll sweat like a slave while you and the rest of your team work on a problem you’ve devised that can be solved in a 24 hour period. Congratulations. You’ve set yourself up for 1440 minutes of knuckle-biting, hair-pulling, t-shirt-staining torture, because *nothing* causes cardiac arrest and brain damage like crunching code under the guillotine of a deadline.
On the other hand, just participating gives you Serious Geek Cred that only those massage-happy freaks over at Google can come close to scoring.
For those folks who are into open source development, and solving problems that the rest of us just work around, check out Hackontest. May Thor, God of the Internets, watch over you.
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