Readit Newsmartinoma commented on The Most Important Part of Your Hackathon? Your Sponsors. tessrinearson.com/blog/?p... · Posted by u/Terpaholic
"Your Sponsors who give away the coolest prizes". Primary motivation for most hackers to spend this weekend at a hackathon I know is to win the prize money/gadgets.
I disagree. At a competition like PennApps or Disrupt, your odds of winning anything are really small. Most people I know know this, and just go to have a good time.
martinoma commented on The Most Important Part of Your Hackathon? Your Sponsors. tessrinearson.com/blog/?p... · Posted by u/Terpaholic
Why is this suddenly sliding off the front page?
martinoma commented on History of San Francisco Place Names sfstreets.noahveltman.com... · Posted by u/sethbannon
This is awesome. It would be cool to see neighborhood names, too, when they aren't linked directly to a street
martinoma commented on 250,000 English words currently available as Twitter handles peticol.as/twitter-handle... · Posted by u/red_hare
You might want to filter out words which are too long to actually be Twitter handles.
martinoma commented on Aaron Swartz, Asking For Help, 119 Days Ago techcrunch.com/2013/01/14... · Posted by u/martinoma
I actually tried to submit it before "martinoma" but was told that I was submitting too often. It's hard to say if TC really did submit its own story - throwaway accounts are quite common nowadays.
I'm not affiliated with TC.
Admittedly, I did decide to submit quickly so that I (might) reap the upvotes--HN has been transfixed by Aaron Swartz, and reasonably so, and I thought that people might like a reminder of how the community reacted a few months ago.