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by TeMPOraL 4110 days ago
Well, it depends on hackaton. Most of the hackatons now are commercial events, designed either to milk participants for free work or promote some third party services.

I remeber when hackatons were made by programmers for programmers, when they were about hacking on actually cool projects and having fun. Those hackatons had some serious devs participating, because hell, even if you're doing this professionally, you need to take a break every now and then and do something just for fun.

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