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Dave Winer is Wrong About Hackdays

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A bunch of people sat around tables. They're all hacking on laptops.

Dave Winer is totally off base when he says "Hackathons are how marketing guys wish software were made." Perhaps it's different in his part of the world, but over here, hackdays are fun! All the hackathon / hackdays I've been to are, essentially, Scrapheap Challenge for software people. The last hackday I went to was about people learning, playing, relaxing, building, tinkering, bodging,…