ESLers are the wrong audience for this kind of project.

mircea_popescu cool, then i'ma write the reply to http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-02#1595237 there too and that way Framedragger won't know what i said about his comment!
a111 Logged on 2017-01-02 20:28 Framedragger: (and according to .kr banks, have a few people sit at table and literally stare at teams, making notes. such conservative bank, hasn't changed them into robots yet)

Sure, I know what works irl, and how it works. You probably know what the "speshul" (in their own mind) snowflakes think they think and like to say about all that : it's so unfair! Why should they have to be subjected, subjugated so! Why should they be humiliated, why should strange men come at night and make them stand on tiptoes in front of their bed and humbly submit their chamber pot for examination and their anal canal for probing!

We're trying to build this republic thing, whereby such probing and examination is not a building block of economic activity ; whereby people are men who can stare themselves, not women who can't get wet if there isn't the male gaze on them, to get their blood moving, the humours flowing, their best parts engorged, pink with frantic activity.

In the end, there isn't a third gender available ; and the children of today can not and may not complain that they don't wanna be like mommy when they grow up because the torn fourchette and varicose veins are painful while they don't wanna be like daddy when they grow up because self direction is hard and life without Televisa Mexico too dry and arid.

0 days in advance is already too much lead-in time.

@Pete Dushenski It's not like there's any other available options. This is all there is ; missing out, under whatever excuse, however rationalised, is still missing out.

This turns out to be an exceedingly hard lesson to learn, especially for the common man, which is unsurprising because really, it's just another statement of "the common man is stupid by choice ; but lazy by vocation". Ie, "will do the right thing just as soon as all avenues were exhausted" and "boy isn't it unfair Bitcoin was low when I was thumbing my nose and no longer" and "I missed out on MPEx back in the day and now I'm going to sit around and pretend it's somehow, absurdly, its loss, not mine" and so on.

Sed fugit interea fugit irreparabile tempus, singula dum capti circumvectamur amore.

This might be how "everyone else" does a hackathon, but it's not clear to me that there's another way to serve coffee than by setting up a shop on the corner. Not everything digitises and a hackathon is as much about the high-pressure atmosphere as the result. Perhaps calling it a "hackathon" at all was a mistake, your own dictionary or not.