pulak
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Comment · 13 years ago
Unfortunately, the extension only gives context to one of the three figures mentioned at the beginning of the post..
Comment · 13 years ago
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.
Comment · 13 years ago
What happens if I've deleted the file from my downloads folder? Is that considered to be "downloaded before"?
Comment · 13 years ago
And now it's going up and down sporadically. This is what I get for trying to process email at 4 AM, I guess...
Comment · 14 years ago
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
Comment · 14 years ago
PennApps is funded solely through our awesome sponsors! No money from Penn at all :)
Comment · 14 years ago
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).
Comment · 14 years ago
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".