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Warehouses – Load Your Analytics Data into Redshift and Postgres(segment.com)
84 points by schmatz 11y ago|28 comments
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Hong Kong protest livestream(youtube.com)
1 points by schmatz 12y ago|0 comments
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by schmatz 12y ago
I also linked to the code of the winners in the blog post (you can also find them here https://gist.github.com/schmatz )
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by schmatz 12y ago
Also, could you email me at michael@codecombat.com with details on what stats you'd like to have access to?
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by schmatz 12y ago
That's a great idea! I'll add it to my todo list. Right now, there isn't a nice and well documented way to do this as we haven't ever had demand for an API like that. You can reverse engineer the POST for the code rankin
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by schmatz 12y ago
Good catch! I'll have to send some feedback to the guy who runs the blogging platform.
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by schmatz 12y ago
Hi malloreon, You can find the link to the main site in the middle of the top bar of the blog where it says "Click Here for the Main CodeCombat Site".
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by schmatz 12y ago
Yep, they could. If people start doing that to mess up results, we have ways of remedying that situation. We haven't had to deal with any cheaters thus far as our users are pretty awesome (and there really is no reason to cheat). We&#x
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by schmatz 12y ago
Hi michaelmior, Those simulations are used to calculate the public leaderboards during the competition. They aren't used for final rankings as the simulation results need to be validated. However, they provide a nice way for people to
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by schmatz 13y ago
This is so cool :)
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by schmatz 13y ago
That's quite impressive! It is apparent our analysis of GitHub events didn't account for "super-repositories" like this, as this would be the fastest growing repository on GitHub by a large margin, dwarfing large project
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by schmatz 13y ago
Looking at OpenStack, it does look like an aggregate of all of the organization's repositories would be definitely the fastest growing. However, we looked at individual repositories, so that's why it's not on the graph. It wo
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by schmatz 13y ago
Actually, the Linux kernel, Android, and Apache are all on GitHub, and were analyzed (though the latter two are mirrors, so I guess not purely on GitHub.) For projects like Linux, while it may have 3500+ contributors, it got that way over 2
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by schmatz 13y ago
You're right, that's true. It's not the ideal metric, but it's one that is realistic to compute with limited time and resources. To analyze that statistic using a growth metric like "largest 30 day average contribut
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by schmatz 13y ago
Hi mkal_tsr, you have a valid point there! Popcorn Time is awesome, and if it continues (unlike the other Popcorn Time repository) it will eventually pass CodeCombat. However, it might also experience some event or plateau, like Pullup did,
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by schmatz 13y ago
I hope this doesn't kill the Rift's potential.
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by schmatz 13y ago
Haha if we wanted to get acquired by EA, I'm pretty sure that's a good strategy... "CodeCombat II: Dungeon Keeper" LOL
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by schmatz 13y ago
Hi @Robadob, great suggestion, thanks for pointing this out! You can actually view the code for these functions in the Level Editor, but obviously it would be much more awesome to have a way to view them from inside the game. We have to str
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by schmatz 13y ago
This will be a very interesting thing to study. Our leaderboard rankings tend to be extremely fluid, and I wonder what the net effect tends to be in terms of impostor syndrome.
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by schmatz 13y ago
Hi dkhenry, That would be a really fun game mode! It would require a lot of thinking about game mechanics and the technical challenges involved, but it's definitely possible, but probably not in the immediate future. I think if we impl
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by schmatz 13y ago
Thanks AUmrysh! If you use `this.getEnemies()` it will return an array of enemy objects, and each one of these objects has a `type` property.
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Introducing Competitive Multiplayer Programming(blog.codecombat.com)
58 points by schmatz 13y ago|26 comments
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by schmatz 13y ago
I wonder what the list would look like if they factored in the value of benefits.
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by schmatz 13y ago
That level editor is awesome(and the 2.5D physics must have been painful to program.) When the source is released, I can't wait to see what people do with it!
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by schmatz 13y ago
I love how Google spends money on things like this, inspiring the next generation - the good news for them today was well deserved!
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by schmatz 13y ago
It still isn't working for me an hour later.
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by schmatz 13y ago
I can just imagine the posts in a few years: "Look at my JavaScript GPU emulator!"