MacHack 2003 Coming Up

Carlos Finque writes "MacHack: The Annual Conference for Leading Edge Developers2003 is coming up! The conference run by developers for the benefit of developers will be held in Dearborn, Michigan from June 19th through the 21st. And 'through' is meant literally: 72 hours of a non-stop mixture of hacking (on keyboards not networks), sessions, and lots of superb people. The session topics range from programming to security-related issues. The keynote starts one minute after midnight on the 19th and is held by Ken Arnold."

Meh

[dogzilla]

Now that MacHack's started charging for downloads of the Machack contest entrants it's really hard to give a shit about a bunch of caffeine-crazed geeks coding all night, eating pizza out of the boxes and smelling sweaty. I mean, without public access to the downloads, MacHack is basically just the same thing you can find on any college campus computer room any given Friday night.

I'll dutifully read the articles after the show's over to see if anyone did something really interesting - I doubt they will - but I can easily do without the buildup and blow-by-blow descriptions. Who gives a crap, really?

Re:Meh

[SandSpider]

I'm sorry, you're on which site for nerds? Oh, I know, many in the slashdot crowd want everything for free, but remember, bandwidth costs money now.

The point behind MacHack isn't really getting the hacks (though that's fun), nor is reading about the caffeine-crazed geeks. It's about getting a bunch of the most talented programmers in the Mac universe and gathering them together for a weekend. It's pretty much the same as your college campus friday night, except for the scale. It's about fun and learning and trying new things in an atmosphere you don't have access to all the time.

=Brian