[mschonfeld]

You can really solve this in a number of different ways... jQuery is just the easiest way because I've included a basic snippet there...

The puzzle part was merely a way to weave out people who can't even figure out basic documentation, and disrupt the workflow of those who can during hackathons...

[mglinski]

Yea, as I read through the comments here I understood that was the idea. It's just I was expecting something more.... substantial to get "invited" to a hackathon, especially if you only know my email address and that I can construct valid HTTP requests in the language/program of my choice. For example, not including the jQuery library in the source code would have been better imo, so we would at least have to problem solve a little. Just my thoughts, I wish I could go to something like this but I can't so I am just complaining here instead :)

[ScotterC]

Guess I came late to the party. There was no jquery there when I did it and the fun thing I learned was I could load jquery from the console.

[mschonfeld]

Oh I like this! Good idea. Removing jQuery now...

[trendynoise]

So I solved the puzzle about an hour ago and received an email within about 5 minutes after finishing it. When I went to register for the event though, there was no option to sign up as developer/hacker. The field only has N/A next to it on the event brite page.

Is it supposed to be like that?

[Ataub24]

no you didn't get the real invite. It will come later today or over the weekend. It will be a ticket, not a sign up.

[aeurielesn]

I jQuerify'd it

[aliston]

I learned you can use curl with session cookies from this little challenge. Yeah, you probably don't need to be an elite hacker to solve it, but it's still a pretty cool way to give out invites...