http://ycoolthing.com/archives/154/hack-day-hints One Cool Thing from Yahoo! every weekday Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:06:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://ycoolthing.com/archives/154/hack-day-hints#comment-356 jr Tue, 19 Sep 2006 05:08:01 +0000 http://ycoolthing.com/archives/154/hack-day-hints#comment-356 Well, yeah, it's hard to take a 24 hour pile of code that only works if you hold the mouse "just so" against a fully co-located multi-media OS featuring fully rendered avatars of US Vice Presidents, but I'm also betting that the folks judging things can spot that too. Still, it's amazing how much planning, thought and research you can do without laying a single line of code. Best to spend that time now rather than burning valuable hours on the day. Well, yeah, it’s hard to take a 24 hour pile of code that only works if you hold the mouse “just so” against a fully co-located multi-media OS featuring fully rendered avatars of US Vice Presidents, but I’m also betting that the folks judging things can spot that too. Still, it’s amazing how much planning, thought and research you can do without laying a single line of code. Best to spend that time now rather than burning valuable hours on the day.

]]> http://ycoolthing.com/archives/154/hack-day-hints#comment-355 Alice Tue, 19 Sep 2006 02:34:34 +0000 http://ycoolthing.com/archives/154/hack-day-hints#comment-355 I refuse to believe that many of the hacks done during the internal hack days were done within the span of 24 hours. When you say "cheat" I say "start now and take some of the polish off right before you present". I refuse to believe that many of the hacks done during the internal hack days were done within the span of 24 hours. When you say “cheat” I say “start now and take some of the polish off right before you present”.

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