Why hold a hackathon in a strip club?

I warn on the shore: moped hakaton not mine. But I will lead and organize logistics! As for many dozens of hakatons before. In the post I want to talk about the rational grain, which is hidden in the seemingly insane event. And how it will help developers take over the world. No, not the way you thought. No, and not so too.

Why do we need hackathons? There is a legend that hackathons are such a thing that startups make prototypes of products for 24 hours (less often - 48 hours). For which then receive investment, recorded in the IIDF and capture the world. Over the past five years I spent a lot of hakatons and I can say with full confidence - no. That's not at all straight. Of the hundreds of projects, further units are being developed, by pure coincidence. The value of hackathons is different.

In cognitive psychology, there is a funny hypothesis that the human brain works situationally. That is, the same person in different situations will do the same actions in different ways. If the hypothesis describes the reality well, then the easiest way to get the desired behavior from yourself is to create a situation in which the brain will do this behavior. Life example: “no inspiration” fix a critical bug. What to do? We take a colleague who does not mind, we plant next to each other and appoint an acting. muses And right there, magic - and inspiration appears, and the bug quickly fixes. Why? Because the situation has changed. From the incomprehensible brain “it is necessary to do a dreary job” it becomes clear: “we must not disgrace in front of a colleague, confirm our position in society, show social significance”. And the brain includes mechanisms of motivation. Himself. Hackatons - about it. On hackathons, our task is to create a situation that encourages developers to gather all their forces into a fist and gig. It's like a gym, only for programmer skills. In 24 hours of work on the hackathon, you can get more experience than in half a year of “leisurely sawing” a hobby project. Valuable, relevant experience.

We know very little about the work of the brain, so while we can not "calculate" the ideal situation for work and study. What is there to say - the rituals of courtship, which evolutionarily developed for thousands of years exactly how such situations fail, through time. You can say hi to pick-ups and wish success in reverse engineering of algorithms. And we return to the hackathons and just sort through the formats and options. 24 hours. 48 hours. In the office. Outdoors. In the country club. In the train . International, with the broadcast between the sites . In a strip club .

The world's first hackathon in a strip club, by the way. The goal is to put our brain in an unexpected situation and see how it reacts to it. At best, we get short-term leveling skills like in the “Borderlands” of Lukyanenko and in 24 hours we pump in the right area, be it Android development for speed or Docker deployment for attentiveness. In the worst case, just hang out in an interesting place, communicate with a bunch of technical experts and tops from the entertainment industry, find out how it all works behind the scenes, cheer for the speakers of our colleagues and treat ourselves to tasty yummy.

Experimenters are waiting for the day after tomorrow, registration is still open, if it ends, you can register by writing a message to me in private on Habré. It will be, at least, interesting!
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PS According to the results I will try to craft a report. Photographers, videographers, journalists and bloggers are welcome, I myself am rather weak in this.

Update: preparation is in full swing!

As it turned out, the club simply consists entirely of places with an interesting design! And everywhere you can put the development team. It will be even more fun than I originally thought!

Update: second day, getting ready to pitch ready hacks

As promised, photos of girls! As usual, some of the developers on the hackathon are girls. Humble yourself.