The "Hackathon" part in "Hackathon Hackers" is totally relative. Your "hackathon" depends completely on the people judging it. Being judged by a bunch of suits with no connection to the technical world? Prepare for Uber for Facebook Cats. However, if you go to a hackathon where the judges are intimately familiar with the technology at hand, you'll get more praise for technical hacks.
In mainstream culture, the latter gets far less press, but the rewards of those hackathons in terms of networking are priceless.
In mainstream culture, the latter gets far less press, but the rewards of those hackathons in terms of networking are priceless.