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by nwinter 13y ago
I had a personal blog post about that story that someone posted to HN, and the top comment thread there was very helpful to us in the decision to open source anyway: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6601712 sillysaurus2
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by nwinter 13y ago
I just had a Chrome extension refreshing the page every couple minutes is all. I think it was actually a bad decision, because we were #40 on the new page in under 10 minutes with everyone doing the same thing. I just posted it because it&#
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by nwinter 13y ago
If someone makes a level on another CodeCombat server in their own database, they can share that with other CodeCombat servers all they please. We are just being cautious about the levels that end up in the main codecombat.com database, bec
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We've Open-Sourced Everything(blog.codecombat.com)
305 points by nwinter 13y ago|43 comments
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by nwinter 13y ago
I also agree with all these points. (I wrote this one.)
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by nwinter 13y ago
That's fine, too--we'll have your code, but you may not (after you change browser sessions). Well, until we reply to your email.
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by nwinter 13y ago
To those playing: if you want to be able to find your code again later, go to the CodeCombat home page and sign up for a free account! Sorry, we derped out and didn't put any signup form accessible from the Gridmancer level. Also, we&#
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by nwinter 13y ago
That's how all the CodeCombat game engine works (things are positioned by their center points), so because this challenge was taken from an algorithm used in two places in the engine, it maintains that. I know it makes it a bit more co
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by nwinter 13y ago
You are so right, I am ashamed. See also this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6976883 We could try doing placements outside of California later, but for now we don't have much of a network outside of the
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by nwinter 13y ago
Oh cool, I'll check those out tonight (and a bunch of Python parsers people have pointed me at). CodeCombat's challenge is to transform other languages into a Mozilla AST so that we can apply our crazy transpilation stuff to it. S
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by nwinter 13y ago
This is a good point. Traditional recruiters have different ways of knowing how good you are at programming (often they don't). By starting with your Gridmancer competency, we can potentially find and qualify you for opportunities that
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by nwinter 13y ago
Oh, okay. I thought I had a performance improvement at hand, so I was excited! Thanks for digging into that.
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by nwinter 13y ago
Would you have played if you could choose Python or CoffeeScript, or would we have to be epic and write a Haskell -> JavaScript transpiler to pass go?
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by nwinter 13y ago
Thanks guys! Happily serving more concurrents right now at 10% CPU than during that first big traffic spike that took us down.
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by nwinter 13y ago
This is for our multiplayer game list, which we haven't quite turned on for non-admins yet: https://www.dropbox.com/s/n956u62zdlghqjw/Screenshot%202013-... But it should only take one screenshot every 30 seco
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by nwinter 13y ago
I'll change the default code comments. We were much less ambitious before our playtesters blew my algorithm out of the water.
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by nwinter 13y ago
I know, I know. Try this.say() for a poor man's replacement. We haven't improved it much because we are going to make an awesome timeless debugger, where you just hover over the variables to see their values at any point in time a
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by nwinter 13y ago
We, uh, don't! That sounds like a bug that I would love to slay. Can you give me some more info?
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by nwinter 13y ago
Clever! In an ideal world, we'd have logic to prevent incorrect configurations so rectangles couldn't touch walls. There would also be ogres dying and explosions and battle music and such related to the efficiency of your algorith
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by nwinter 13y ago
You have a fun time? (You have to ask us to place you; we're not going to spam anyone who plays and doesn't reach out.)
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by nwinter 13y ago
We are doing it in a way that won't scale: George is just going to hustle to make the placements. Codecademy might have a different problem to solve, too: the players we're placing through this level are mostly people with existin
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by nwinter 13y ago
Sorry about that. The fix is deploying right now.
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Beat This Level, Get A Programming Job(blog.codecombat.com)
69 points by nwinter 13y ago|72 comments
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by nwinter 13y ago
It's slightly possible to do the level without shooting the civilians yourself (your terrorist buddies can kill them for you), but you do have to kill the Russian airport police who show up to stop you. If you refuse to shoot them, the
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by nwinter 13y ago
I call it "ultra-violent" because the one time I played it myself, this was the first level: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NoRussian.jpg Basically you're pretending to be a terrorist, you have to sho
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by nwinter 13y ago
Are you a programmer? I wonder what you think of this argument: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/09/programmings-dirties...
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by nwinter 13y ago
If you had to start the commitment contract again, would you change any of the three parts of "{1} {user-visible improvement} per {day}"?
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New CodeCombat Upgrades Based on Your Feedback(blog.codecombat.com)
1 points by nwinter 13y ago|0 comments
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by nwinter 13y ago
I used an adjustable-height standing/sitting desk, so I was standing maybe 40% of the time. I agree, I can't imagine doing it seated the whole time.
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by nwinter 13y ago
Here's the code: https://github.com/nwinter/telepath-logger I initially wrote it as an self-tracking activity logger with no interface, but when I went to do the time-lapse video, I added the HUD UI and made it sa

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