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hackathons

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  • noun Plural form of hackathon.

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Examples

  • The company also regularly holds all-night sessions that it calls "hackathons," encouraging engineers to build code and build new products.

    Facebook Hires Whiz 'GeoHot' Shayndi Raice 2011

  • They hone their programming skills at computer "hackathons" - digital retreats designed to produce solutions to crisis communications and data management challenges - held by such dissimilar groups as "Random Hacks of Kindness," sponsored by social media players including

    USATODAY.com News 2011

  • The Google Maps API team has announced The Google Geo Developer Series, an exciting series of workshops, "hackathons" and lectures taking place live at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California.

    Archive 2008-02-01 2008

  • And if you read their blog this team love 'hackathons'!

    Archive 2005-05-01 Ben Barren 2005

  • The pool-playing robot project was one of the company's "hackathons" or week-long endurance sessions.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • This is the brainchild of a single Facebook engineer, Wayne Kao, who built the feature at one of the company's all-night "hackathons" along with a designer.

    CNET News.com 2010

  • To help generate new ideas, the firm holds all-night "hackathons" at which engineers work on their pet projects, fuelled by Chinese takeaways and energy drinks.

    The Economist: Correspondent's diary 2010

  • And with an executive lineup sourced from Bay Area elite (including a handful of former Google leaders), high-profile conferences and parties, not to mention developer "hackathons" all over the world, it has all the makings of a landmark Silicon Valley craze.

    CNET News.com 2009

  • And with an executive lineup sourced from Bay Area elite (including a handful of former Google leaders), high-profile conferences and parties, not to mention developer "hackathons" all over the world, it has all the makings of a landmark Silicon Valley craze.

    Muti 2009

  • Then there was the developer platform, which hit the scene in May 2007 with the first of Facebook's now-ubiquitous 'hackathons'.

    Crave at CNET UK 2009

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