Worst Hackathon ? When you have coded so hard during 48 hours to have a functional prototype and the winners get trophee with a static PowerPoint, full of bullshit buzzwords...

When 3/4 of my team gave up and left halfway through. I still don't understand how we ended up with a working prototype in the end.

Disclaimer: This is not a Windows hate rant as this problem has been solved by Microsoft(partially).

I went to a hackathon last year at an engineering college. It was not such grand hackathon as people have in USA or Europe. So I entered in this competition trying to develop a medical app which asks the user detail about his/her problems then asks questions to match the symptoms of diseases. So me and a guy(who isn't a coder) tried to develop that app. He provided the data of diseases, I tried to develop kind of AI app with those data but found that job too hard for one day hackathon. So I wrote an email for api medic for their api which I was going to use. I then coded continuously for 4 hours in Android studio for the android app. The event manager told us late in the day that repo had been made for the hackathon and we must push our codes before 12 that night. The event manager provided the repo very late that day maybe around 6. I did a big mistake not creating my own repo on github to save every code I had written from time to time.(After this e vent whatever I code I save it in a repo). I was running Windows 10 on one of my laptop and ubuntu on my another. Due to some divine badluck I was using my Windows 10 laptop on that hackathon. So around maybe 10 I was about to wrap up the day push the code to repo. I went to getself a cup of coffee and returned to find lo and behold fucking BSOD. I was fucked, it was my first hackathon so made another misatake of using emulator rather than my android phone. My Android phone was not responding good that day so I used the android emulator.

From that day on I do three things:
1. Always push my projects to github repo.
2. Use android phone after running some minor tests on emulator.
3. Never use windows(Happy arch user till eternity.)

You might be thinking even though BSOD, it can be recovered. But didn't happen in my case, the windows revert back to the time I had just upgraded from Windows 8.1 to 10.

During my first hackathon I teamed up with some strangers. We decided to create some games by expanding reality with virtual element (sounds mysteriously and maybe even ominously, but it's not). So here we go - one of them started building android app, the second guy started building window app in C++ and the last one of them decided to create something in JavaScript. It was fun, but I wasn't prepared and so much educated, so after some trials that ended poorly, the only thing I did was the wooden construction that was supposed to hold our tablet up so it could shoot photos recursively. I almost died of boredom for the remaining time.

That I've never been able to attend a hackathon since they are ALL always on the weekend. I'm Jewish and can't use electronics on the Sabbath FFS

When me and my team put all efforts into making a functional app and the top 3 winners only had a PowerPoint with wireframes of their app.

Worst hackaton? The one when i realized too late i was stuck with a bunch of kids bragging about being "devs" because they knew how to download an html template for wordpress 😭

Had a team with

1 entrepreneur who has this great billion dollar Idea and want me to sign an NDA before he can share the idea

1 newb who thinks that X language is the coolest because that's what everyone on Hacker news says

1 person who spends more time with other team than yours. I'll be fortunate to even spot him during the hackathon. Aka, "networking guy"

And then there's me, wondering why was I even here in the first place

Oh wait, that's the every hackathon I've been to.

The golden ratio !!!

Yay!

(This text is needed, because my message needs to be between the 6 and 5000 characters long. In other words, "Yay!" is not long enough. So I'm typing a shitload of text to be sure I have enough characters in my message. Now I will stop typing, because I dont want to reach the 5000 character limit.)

How deploying servers could be like 😂

Tides of time but still...

~rant

Today my dumb arse learned that DDR4 is a different shape than DDR3. Guess which one I spent weeks waiting for.

Guess which one my mobo supports.

Fuck.

One of the most depressing error messages, maybe? Happened early this morning and I've been feeling sad ever since :-/

I get "bullied" for not drinking coffee!
Any other tea drinkers here???

Hi am Derick

Antivirus on Linux !!!

When boss tries to look smart and gives you advice about the project you wrote:

When I'm 80 and still want to program but need a much much larger screen....

How to upgrade your mac
Source: http://9gag.com/gag/avrwNqM/...

🤔.

Here is better picture. Map is kind of weird, but in the description of GDrive file there is a link to the original, where it looks better.
https://drive.google.com/open/...

Found this beauty today(it's an eraser)

Sad, but true.

CSS IRL

The same goes for clients.

If you're a developer and you enjoy/love doing it... Don't get married. Don't have kids.

EVER

Picture was taken right 'between' two years.

Float point precision done right :-P

When you check the comments under GitHub and most of them are +1