chrislloyd

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by chrislloyd 14y ago
I just spend the day revamping our pricing page and worked out that roughly 90% of game servers are active for less than 20 hours a week.
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by chrislloyd 14y ago
We've open-sourced that Funpack so that's the general structure of how we run things. If you create a new one and send it to us, who knows, we might publish it for everybody to play :)
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by chrislloyd 14y ago
Hi! 1.) Works exactly the same :) 2.) Hey we're from Sydney too! Our severs are in us-east at the moment. We've got loads of Australian customers and for Minecraft, us-east latency is very playable. Best thing is to give it a go and see wha
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by chrislloyd 14y ago
Hey! Chris from Minefold here. Why would HN readers love this? Well Feed the Beast is basically a programmable environment for Minecraft. It includes a mod called "Computer Craft"[1] which is ridiculously cool. As an extra bonus we've ope
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Minefold (YC W12) launches Feed The Beast servers(blog.minefold.com)
58 points by chrislloyd 14y ago|18 comments
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by chrislloyd 14y ago
If you're wanting to play on your own server we (Minefold YC W12) have just silently released TF2 support.</plug>
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by chrislloyd 14y ago
We've been tracking Minecraft's public sales over time: http://minecraft-sales.herokuapp.com . That's only for the PC version. We estimate that sales of Minecraft across other platforms at least double that revenue.
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by chrislloyd 14y ago
One of the most shameful moments of my career happened on the Saturday night before WWDC in 2010. I'd never worked on a system with more than one component or more than 20,000 lines of code. Drunk, I managed to stumble from Jeff's hot-tub t
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by chrislloyd 14y ago
They are very real. Perhaps you should sign up :P
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by chrislloyd 14y ago
We wrote a library to do just that (sorry): https://github.com/minefold/node-minecraft It needs a small fixes to work with the current version of Minecraft but it's pretty feature complete. We were using it internally for load testing (un
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The Basement(cabel.me)
486 points by chrislloyd 14y ago|36 comments
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by chrislloyd 14y ago
Man the live updating is pretty sweet.
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by chrislloyd 14y ago
Exactly.
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Apple logo hidden in Windows 8 advertisement(sexpigeon.tumblr.com)
4 points by chrislloyd 14y ago|3 comments
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by chrislloyd 14y ago
For "normal" servers it's only 5 coins / min is only while the sever is running. If you only play for a few hours on Friday evenings it works out to be really good :)
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by chrislloyd 14y ago
That is… weird. Investigating now.
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Minefold (YC W12) launches mods with more games coming soon(blog.mutlicorp.com)
95 points by chrislloyd 14y ago|39 comments
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Where the Internet lives — Photos from Google's datacenters(google.com)
4 points by chrislloyd 14y ago|0 comments
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by chrislloyd 14y ago
I'm really interested in this. Any links to more information/original research?
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by chrislloyd 14y ago
They're quite different. Intercom activity streams shows you when how often a user has visited your site and the conversations you've had with them. Mixpanel shows what actions a user has taken.
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by chrislloyd 14y ago
It's really fun but… I feel old.
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by chrislloyd 14y ago
How do I know it will? I was turned off by the lack of a trial.
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by chrislloyd 14y ago
My co-founder and I made one called Brains[1] for a past Railscamp. Aaron Iba also taught a course at MIT[2] with a similar competition. [1] https://github.com/chrislloyd/brains [2] http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-c
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by chrislloyd 14y ago
"There's little in it that shows that the team has the level of skills needed to write a platform." Is the demo not enough? It's paradoxical having the skill of building something that is new.
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by chrislloyd 14y ago
After using EventMachine in heavy production at Minefold for the last year and a half we're finally ditching it for Go. Our experience has been similar to the OP's. However we had random exception gobbling, internal threading issues and inc
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by chrislloyd 14y ago
I love the app, but this isn't how you win friends on the internet: http://cl.ly/image/0Y401a2D1c2R ;)
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by chrislloyd 14y ago
We're doing great! But seriously… we went through a hard time after YC trying to figure out where to focus our time. However, it's been growing steadily (almost at 60,000 players) and we've done some great work in the last few months which
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How not to launch your company(blog.mutlicorp.com)
156 points by chrislloyd 14y ago|41 comments
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by chrislloyd 14y ago
Minefold (YC W12) launched 3 hours before Steve Jobs died and got, uh, 23 upvotes[1] before disappearing into oblivion. [1] http://cl.ly/image/371P0B3j3g3H
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by chrislloyd 14y ago
LayerVault, Svpply & Art.sy have been a major inspiration of mine. When I first saw LayerVault 2 it was shocking and amazing and I hope others have the same reaction. An upcoming (da da DA) Minefold release will convert the entire site

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