Facebook Hacker Cup - what on earth could they mean?

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Facebook Hacker Cup - what on earth could they mean?

Facebook recently announced its Hacker Cup.

In predictable, gung-ho, forward-looking Facebook style, it's already documented as "founded 2011", and as "an annual Facebook programming competition .. for .. a shot at the coveted Hacker Cup."

I suppose there is no major technical reason why an event that has only happened once can't be deemed "annual", which, in turn, makes it equally acceptable to use the term for events which have happened zero times.

(I once got told off for being silly by some role-playing gamers who were discussing dice because I assumed the existence of D0s and D1s*. I still can't see what their problem was. No imagination, I suppose.)

As Facebook explains:

Hacking is a central part of Facebook's culture. Whether we're building the next big product at one of our Hackathons or creating a smarter search algorithm, we're always hacking to find a better way of doing things.


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