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-> They exclude people with lives and responsibilities <-

This is the strongest point.

I will contribute to your project, I will not spend the night drinking Mountain Dew and eating pizza.



I didn't appreciate the insinuation that people who DO attend hackathons have no lives.


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I do. And I love hackathons.

In general I always found the separation of life into life and the other stuff rather blurry, but hackathons have given me so much fun, excitement, great memories and occasional friendships that I definitely put them under the "life" label.




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