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by nwinter 13y ago
Thanks for the tip. I actually just got a second monitor (third screen) but wasn't able to time-lapse it, so for this week I was unbalanced mostly looking at just one of the screens. I shall now rearrange my gaze targets.
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by nwinter 13y ago
Just coincidence, actually.
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by nwinter 13y ago
Thanks for the feedback--remember anything off the top of your head that you particularly didn't like about it?
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by nwinter 13y ago
Ah, right! On our bug list; thanks. Will fix as soon as we can. Server is unhappy again right now with the load.
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by nwinter 13y ago
Sending us emails through the contact form on our site (or just to team@codecombat.com) is a great way to get the discussion going. Eager to talk about how we can make this awesome for your son and his friends!
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by nwinter 13y ago
Our servers are getting hammered and the multiplayer code sync feature is now getting stuff a bit garbled up. We have a fix, but we have to take the site down for a bit to implement it, unfortunately. So when that kind of thing happens, rel
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by nwinter 13y ago
Me neither! It should be possible to build hugely different levels with it, kind of like the StarCraft II map editor (which lets you build first-person shooters, underground, or like 2D sidescroller arcade games.) I really want to get it so
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CodeCombat's live coding level editor(blog.codecombat.com)
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Games: The Anti-MVP(georgesaines.com)
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by nwinter 13y ago
I started talking about supporting the bill and the lady answering the phone (for Nancy Pelosi) rather abruptly switched me to the dedicated voicemail system for these types of calls. I was expecting her to listen to it, but I guess this wo
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by nwinter 16y ago
At Skritter, we spent a lot of effort trying to sell to schools. In the process, individual sales picked up on their own to the point where we realized we were wasting our time on the schools. It's not that it can't be done. If you can dire
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by nwinter 16y ago
Actually, we were testing it checked on or checked off by default, too. I don't remember the details, but the conversion rate drop was from combining both of those flavors.
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by nwinter 16y ago
We haven't optimized Skritter for Flash at all yet except to quickly scrunch down the layout. We just got a phone to play with, so we'll see how much better we can make it. I was blown away by the framerates one tester was getting--this is
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by nwinter 16y ago
We play a game where you think of words you've never said before and try use them in a sentence. (So if you don't know roughly what it means, it doesn't count.) It's fun because you try unsuccessfully to search for words with the weakest in
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by nwinter 17y ago
I just tried limiting the max bubble cursor radius in your demo and it seemed to prevent the unwanted gap-clicking problem well enough, while still helping buttons be easier to click. Not sure if it reduces the win in the proposed huge-scre
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by nwinter 17y ago
Whoa, that's my girlfriend! So proud. Weird to see this after not being online for a week while traveling with her.
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by nwinter 17y ago
Ugh, Linode is our reverse proxy.
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by nwinter 17y ago
That is a plus. You can go very far within the free quota limits. Another thing I forgot to mention is that if you want to use an external domain (clojuresombrero.com instead of closuresombrero.appspot.com), and you want users in China to b
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by nwinter 17y ago
This is true, but should be a minor concern--you can easily ping it every once in a while to keep it hot without using very many resources. You might even be able to use App Engine's built in cron jobs to do it from the instance itself (mig
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by nwinter 17y ago
I'm on the Python end, and it's gotten a lot more stable and faster since it launched. A lot more features, too. A lot of the workarounds that we did early on to fix headaches and failure cases just aren't needed any more, so it's much clos
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by nwinter 17y ago
I think that many of the Ask YC or Tell HN posts tend to get more votes more easily, so the weighting makes sense even good posts of that sort. I noticed this in the source while we were asking for advice, but we still got a lot more spotli
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by nwinter 17y ago
Drifting away when the bandwidth is low is fine and can still be done. I should have said that avoiding drifting is novel for me when both (or more than two) parties are capable of expressing themselves quickly (both typing and composition)
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by nwinter 17y ago
I love Wave's instant typing. Chat happens so much faster, and both parties stay engaged instead of drifting away while they wait. It raises the bandwidth. This kind of editing isn't something you could have turned off by default in Wave, b
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by nwinter 17y ago
Question: do you use horizontal or vertical monitors? I've gotten so used to vertical for code and for web pages I'm developing with Firebug that I can't imagine preferring horizontal for writing code. But I've seen few others running that
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by nwinter 17y ago
They recommend that you subscribe to their downtime-notify group. They post well in advance of scheduled maintenances, and have recently put up a schedule of all such maintenances through the end of the year. It's easy to miss the "you shou
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by nwinter 17y ago
Yes. It used to be called iKnow, and now iKnow is just an app on smart.fm, which is run by Cerego.
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by nwinter 17y ago
This is what we do at http://www.skritter.com for Chinese and Japanese. Spaced repetition is definitely still in the geek realm, though. Even after automating almost everything (vocab creation, addition, even grading), there are still a l
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by nwinter 17y ago
We just finished getting the reseller license for this, actually, and plan to do exactly that once we can set the billing page up to support it. We do want to encourage people to buy and use them, because it makes them much better, so we we
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by nwinter 17y ago
All agreed. I have the Sprints, and running in them takes some intense getting used to (muscles and blisters). Now that I'm used to them, though, I feel like a ninja.
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by nwinter 17y ago
I'm an avid cinemaphile and can't wait to see this. Saw the trailer, saw that it was from Sony pictures classic and had to see it. Huangm, really jealous that you got to go to Sundance and see it there!

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