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by gsaines 13y ago
Definitely understand the sentiment there, but at least for us, it's not working out like that. Our first contributor is also our first developer hire, and we have another contributor we are negotiating with to have him do some contrac
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by gsaines 13y ago
Thanks dreeves, I don't have a bunch to add to this list, as we've found it to be pretty comprehensive, but we really appreciate the support!
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Why You Should Open-Source Your Startup(blog.codecombat.com)
3 points by gsaines 13y ago|0 comments
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by gsaines 13y ago
Congrats on the launch guys, best of luck!
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The Tetris Effect and Markov Paul Graham(blog.nickwinter.net)
1 points by gsaines 13y ago|0 comments
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by gsaines 13y ago
That's the idea! We would love for you to give it a try and let us know how it goes.
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So This Is What It Feels Like to Be A Millionaire(medium.com)
11 points by gsaines 13y ago|0 comments
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by gsaines 13y ago
I know for a fact that the hour of code was compulsory for American students, which is definitely a big contributor to trolling behavior. I know that most of my classes in HS would have reverted to juvenile behavior given an open-ended soci
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by gsaines 13y ago
Hi tarr11, thanks a lot for the in-depth feedback, this is hugely helpful for us. I had actually read your blog post when it was posted, and we got a lot of helpful information out of it. Here are some responses to the problems: * When you
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by gsaines 13y ago
My first computer was my father's Amstrad '86 with a whopping 1MHz processor and 512k of RAM. He bought it so he could work on his master's thesis in the late 80s. A friend of mine in high school (during the early 00's)
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by gsaines 13y ago
Definitely, the really shocking bit is that number is about a year old, so presumably it's even higher now. Nick researched it and I thought he was being his normal hyperbolic self, but no, it's legit. PG's essay about addict
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by gsaines 13y ago
Definitely. I didn't even know what programming was until I was about 20 years old in college, and this was after I'd settled on a major. After graduating and starting my first startup, I saw my two cofounders working on the websi
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by gsaines 13y ago
Hey wil421, Olark gave us geoIP for each person we were chatting with, and we are able to join any player's game session (so we can assist with bugs in real time), so we got a lot of first hand experience with American student's c
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180,000 Child Programmers Versus 44 Ogres(blog.codecombat.com)
108 points by gsaines 13y ago|42 comments
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Social Media For Startups: A Practical Guide(medium.com)
1 points by gsaines 13y ago|0 comments
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by gsaines 13y ago
Yeah, I helped him choose those screensavers, he basically wanted some video to show while he was sleeping, that way the timelapse could be continuous. I was especially pleased with the bus driver bit.
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by gsaines 13y ago
Congrats on the launch guys, looking great! Hope that we see you in this YC batch!
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Hypothetical Number Inflation(medium.com)
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Help us build CodeCombat: a multiplayer programming game(blog.codecombat.com)
1 points by gsaines 13y ago|0 comments
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by gsaines 13y ago
That is an excellent movie, here's hoping that we can pick up some excellent space pilots, er, devs, with the platform. It's incredible how many people have written to tell us that they started their dev careers building games, I
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by gsaines 13y ago
While it's true that you should be embarrassed by the first version and imperfect code is instructive, I would feel bad about inflicting some of our internal use tools on other people! :)
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by gsaines 13y ago
Hey Cyranix, yeah the db will definitely be an asset, especially when it comes time to test the business model of recruiting. Sam Altman's comment on stage about recruiters being sorts sleazy is definitely true, and so casts some doubt
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by gsaines 13y ago
Hey Adam, thanks can't seem to respond to you: but it is, hopefully not for too much longer, can't say too much right now, though. :)
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by gsaines 13y ago
Thanks for the kind words pla3rhat3r, we're hoping to release a bunch of new content soon as well as open up the level editor so folks can contribute their own levels, so please do check back! Also, if you kids find anything we can imp
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by gsaines 13y ago
Thanks, just for the record, Skritter is still a going concern, but we have shifted our attention over to CodeCombat.
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by gsaines 13y ago
That's useful feedback highCs, but open sourcing doesn't necessarily select our industry or business prospects. It seems to me we could be open source and high growth, or closed source and slow growth and the two factors are not n
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by gsaines 13y ago
We're not really open source zealots or anything, but Quake did score points in my book for being cross platform back when everything was released only for windows. For most projects/businesses, there's always a tension betwe
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by gsaines 13y ago
That's a very useful 2c, we haven't worked in the game dev industry, so it's extremely useful to get the opinions of folks that have that experience. If we have our druthers, we'll release 100% of it and include the game
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by gsaines 13y ago
Definitely, thanks for your understanding!
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by gsaines 13y ago
Yeah, those are all definitely on our radar, especially the idea to keep some surrounding infrastructure closed. That might be motivated by the wrong reasons though, if we don't have to open source it, we can keep it at "internal

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