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When hacks attack (News,The Guardian)
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Wednesday, 27 June 2007 |
Forty-eight hours, hundreds of hackers and an endless supply of pizza: the perfect combination for a weekend of geekery. Except BBC/Yahoo! Hackday didn't go quite as planned.
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By Bobbie Johnson
It's 48 hours before hundreds of hackers descend on London, and Chad Dickerson and Matt Cashmore are sitting in a London cafe. In most senses, they are an odd couple - one a laconic American slacker from Yahoo!, the other an excitable Welshman who works for the bastion of British reserve, the BBC. But regardless of cultural differences, both are visibly twitchy as their self-imposed deadline approaches.
"Just sitting here now, in the back of my head I'm running through a list of things to do," says Cashmore, laughing nervously.
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