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CodeWars: the Hacker Society where devs compete
- boatmeme 14y agoThat was fun! Hope to see more soon.
- hellcow 14y agoI wish I could see the whole leader-board or how points were allocated so I could improve my score. Otherwise, very nice job.
- dpritchett 14y agoI've completed every point-granting action I could find on the site and I'm at 4029. 2528 of that came from linking my Github profile. I assume that component scales based on the usual GH vanity metrics. The person atop of the leaderboard (https://github.com/joho https://github.com/joho) has 700+ 'stars' between his 70+ GH repos.
- nicholassmith 14y agoI'd be interested in knowing what the github metric is calculated off as I was moderately surprised at getting 800ish for my mostly slim GH account.
- ninetax 14y agoAh, I just have to say I loved that I could just start doing them. No sign up, no email or anything, you just gave them to me. Wonderful.
- thejosh 14y agoBeing able to see what it was without dicking about with authentication was great.
- nicholassmith 14y agoYeah it was a really nice change to just jump straight in.
- exolxe 14y agoI love hearing this, it's all about a clean experience... Expect more of the same, we'll keep it coming!
- pspeter3 14y agoInteresting, what's the long term goal?
- exolxe 14y agoThe vision's to create a global arena, where as devs we can compete and build projects that matter.
- KaoruAoiShiho 14y agoWe already have that. It's called real life. Still I signed up and am present on the leaderboard.
- exolxe 14y agoFair enough. We want to complement real life with a virtual environment and make it easier to collaborate with dev's outside your existing network. Congrats on the leaderboard status.
- recycleme 14y ago> make it easier to collaborate with dev's outside your existing network. Sounds fun. Looking forward to it, thanks.
- dpritchett 14y agoSame here! I am utterly unenthused by the stated mission but I still hunted down every possible point just because they were there. Great game mechanics. I guess I'm just a sucker for ratings.
- captaintacos 14y agoSo in the long term, how exactly will this be different from http://www.topcoder.com/ http://www.topcoder.com/ ? Just wondering... I signed up already anyway.
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- charonn0 14y agoIt looks like only Javascript devs are welcome. :\
- jhoffner 14y agoAll devs are welcome! We just had to start somewhere for the tests but the community is language agnostic.
- charonn0 14y agoGranted you have to start somewhere, but the second challenge (appears) to not only be JS-specific, but specific to the Prototype JS library.
- jhoffner 14y agoJS is a prototype based language. I think the word prototype might be throwing you off but its a core concept within JavaScript.
- paulhodge 14y agoYeah, there's a huge Javascript bias. When they describe a dev with 7 to 10 years experience as: "Web Hipster; I was using AJAX before it was even called AJAX.", it's a bit like hearing nails on a chalkboard.
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- codewright 14y agoI'm signed up, answered all the questions. I'm on the leaderboard or w/e. I love code koans. I want more. Feed me.
- saym 14y agoAs a relative n00b, I appreciate being top 500, open the beta to moar users!
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- daguar 14y agoNot to troll, but this seems quite close to Codecademy and HackerRank, without much of those sites' additional benefits.
- exolxe 14y agoNo worries, appreciate the feedback. Codecademy is aimed at beginners, we're focusing on experienced devs. HackerRank provides challenges, whereas we're promoting interactive competition.
- charonn0 14y agoIt's somewhat reminiscent of RosettaCode or Project Euler, too.
- nicholassmith 14y agoMore choice is usually a good thing, it's a pretty nice project and it's still early days so it might fit somewhere.
- Kiro 14y agoI think this is much more fun than Codecademy.
- j95tin 14y agoLooks great! -- Justin
- 255martyn 14y agoI want more points. WHY???
- cjstewart88 14y agoNice, I had fun doing the intro questions, good luck with this. Keep it simple, don't try and pack to much into the app.
- djisjke 14y agoIs this for real? Wow, I'm sure a lot of rock star coders will hang there.
- recursive 14y agoIs there anything that suggests that it is not real?
- djisjke 14y agoAll the awesome ninja coder "build things that matter" ninja awesome makes it sound like a bad joke. But we're all awesome rock star ninja web coders anyways, right? Or maybe I'm the only one tired of developers talking like as if they were teenage mutant ninja turtles.
- recursive 14y agoI too am tired of the general ninja/rockstar terminology. To me though, this is different. It's referring to the aesthetic of their self-contained competition. To me, it's like playing a video game in which you are a space marine, which is already a thoroughly explored concept. It's just a framework on which to apply the particular mechanics of this site. For instance, they are saying things like "code wars ninja", not "Rails ninja". To me, that's different. To you, maybe not.
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- nathan_f77 14y agoOh man, being number 13 makes me really want to get another 300 points to be in the top 10... This is pretty cool, I want some more!
- nathan_f77 14y agoEDIT: Welp, now I'm really far behind :/
- tjbiddle 14y agoVery awesome. I'm assuming the majority of points are gained via GitHub - Curious what your algorithm for that is. I can see you working with CodeAcademy possibly. Looking forward to seeing more.
- michaelrbock 14y agocool!
- lexandstuff 14y agoLove it.
- emeraldd 14y agoThe code editor could use some work. It was very awkward to use, especially in my phone's browser. Otherwise, MORE PUZZLES!
- schme 14y agoCall me easy to engage, but I really liked all the +100's next to the buttons.
- janoulle 14y agoNicely done. Reminds me of codingbat.com (solve the questions there in java or python).
- ninetax 14y agoHey here's an idea: Let people create their own challenges and let them assign some point values to them (if the person is a high scorer, maybe let them give the challenge higher points). Then other people can try to solve it and vote on user created challenges. Get the ecosystem going! What do you think?
- joshschreuder 14y agoOr you give up the amount of points that you want the question to be worth, and if x number of people answer it, then you get your points back?
- fruchtose 14y agoThis idea has been done before by a site called KnowledgeBlackBelt, formerly JavaBlackBelt--although the idea is heavily perverted in its current incarnation. The site works on the concept of tests and courses. The test questions are submitted by users, but to take the courses you need to pay for an instructor of some kind to teach you. Completing tests moves you up ranks. I contributed to a few questions a few years back before the site introduced this paid instruction aspect. A lot of good material was created through crowdsourcing. I am sure it could work again.
- billyjobob 14y agothe first challenge that came up asked me to fix a JavaScript program. however, the logic of the program was fine; it merely contained a syntax error that was obvious if you know the peculiarities of JavaScript syntax but hard to spot if you don't. that's not the sort of challenge I want to solve.
- mck- 14y agoSurprised nobody mentioned Interview Street. It has a lot of difficult challenges that you can solve in your own favourite language (supports 15). That Leaderboard is dominated by China, perhaps you guys shouldn't be battling each other ;)
- exolxe 14y agoThey are all about challenges. We use them as Initiation to show who's legit... There's much more to be unveiled.
- silentific 14y agoI really enjoyed this, looking forward to more.
- lsiebert 14y agoI'm not sure I like the areas. I'd feel more comfortable indicating what languages I know, rather than where I apply them. I think that's a better way to present Domain knowledge when talking about code.
- klibertp 14y agoI completed the survey, entered my email, got "Confirm your account... Dojo Access Link" email, and then got: "Confirmation token is invalid". What to do now?
- exolxe 14y agoAppreciate the heads up, could you forward us the confirmation email: info@codewa.rs... If you go back to the site (after clearing your cookies or on a different browse) you can renter the same email and opt to resend the Confirm/Access email, that should take care of it.
- computerslol 14y agoThrowing a 500 :\
- exolxe 14y agoReally? Maybe b/c of server traffic. Let us know if it's still happening: info@codewa.rs
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