http://ypnblog.com/blog/2006/09/26/hack-day-schedule-hacked-out/ Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:22:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://ypnblog.com/blog/2006/09/26/hack-day-schedule-hacked-out/comment-page-1/#comment-477 Yahoo! Publisher Network » Blog Archive » Hacks Happened Tue, 03 Oct 2006 20:13:34 +0000 http://ypnblog.com/blog/2006/09/26/hack-day-schedule-hacked-out/#comment-477 [...] I should have taken the bet. At Yahoo’s first public Hack Day, a 24-hour mash-up contest/party/extravaganza that challenged engineers and developers to hack out innovative hybrids from Yahoo! APIs, I spotted the overall winner early-on. Not only were they hacking software but also hardware, with wires and diodes and circuit boards laid out in front of them. And then there were the sewing machines. Yeah, that’s right: sewing machines, the last thing you would expect to see at a hacker confab. [...] [...] I should have taken the bet. At Yahoo’s first public Hack Day, a 24-hour mash-up contest/party/extravaganza that challenged engineers and developers to hack out innovative hybrids from Yahoo! APIs, I spotted the overall winner early-on. Not only were they hacking software but also hardware, with wires and diodes and circuit boards laid out in front of them. And then there were the sewing machines. Yeah, that’s right: sewing machines, the last thing you would expect to see at a hacker confab. [...]

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