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My friends and I were thinking about going to a hackathon that a university hosts. We don't know if we should waste our time, and money to travel down there. Our skills are average to above average, and seeing that this is at a ivy league university I don't know if we can hold our own. Just in general how hard are hackathons?

I know there are post out there about what are good computer monitors, so if someone can link them that would be great, or mention what is a good computer monitor for coding, but still be an everyday monitor

How do you find time to work on your personal projects(While working a 40+ hour work week)?

In my case I am currently interning in a IT related job, so I am staring at a computer screen for 8+ hours a day. By the time I get home the last thing I want to do is sit down and stare into another computer screen. The only real time I get to work on personal projects in late at night on weekdays for about an hour or two. At this rate I will never be able to complete anything in a reasonable amount of time. I travel/work a lot on the weekends(prime personal project time), so I can only really work on it then.

I don't know if HN already has a thread like this somewhere, but every month I see the who's hiring post, and after digging around in there most companies are looking for someone with 5+ or so years of work experience. I think we need to have a who's hiring college grads/entry level post started every month. Any thoughts?

I am trying to develop an iphone application that needs to connect to a database. After about an hour of googleing I found that there a lot of ways to go about doing this(SQLite database locally on the iphone, MYSQL wrapper class to connect to a database, and many other). What is the best method or convention most developers use? Does the iphone SDK have any built in NS objects to connect to a database?

Any hackers at Penn State (State College) or surrounding area?

Want to meet up during Blue and White weekend(April 16th)? Location TBD

Are there any open source project on github or anywhere that have project that are like for beginners to a language and are easy to understand(well commented) and some how educational?

I am a CS student at Penn State, and for a class I have to come up with a project that makes use of networking sockets connecting to a MySQL data base, HTML 5, and real time synchronization of the data in the data base. My idea was the create a website in which that the user is able to submit code in multiple languages(one at first) and save it to the data base. All code is visible to everyone and able for real time updating from anyone.(Kinda of like Github). This project will be fine, but I was thinking of adding something that would make my site unique from other ie Github or other code sharing site. Any thoughts?