King of hackathons doesn’t know how to code. Got it.

Good encapsulation of how corrupted hackathon culture has become.

Basically just “idea guys” have gotten great at LARPing and hijacked the scene.

That's always been the case with the Silicon Valley meetup non-technical, wantrepreneur posers though.

"Wantrepreneur." Today I embiggened my vocabulary.

Hackathon culture is different than it was, but that doesn't mean it's worse for the average person. It could be that "idea guys" do the important hackathon culture work better. Highly innovative people are a little off the beaten path, but describing them as a cultural corrupting force is moving the community backwards.

You meet all sorts of characters in SF. I didn't think I'd ever see this guy again.

Seeing Rene headlining a celebratory blog post makes me want to vent, but this probably isn't the appropriate space.

I have stories to tell, though.

How does the hackathon culture compare to the old school demoscene? My impression is that it was pretty hard to contribute to making demos without actually having some pretty deep expertise in one of the several disciplines required?

Dupe, sensationalized headline https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44480418

Surest sign we are in a bubble.

Cue the strip cub scene from the big short.