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SurfScore

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About SurfScore

I'm Jon Mattingly, a founder of Kodable.

Kodable

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    Comment #10313674

    Kodable - http://www.kodable.com - Sunnyvale, CA | ONSITE Kodable is a programming curriculum for elementary schools. Already used by 1 in every 7 elementary schools in the US, we …

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    Comment #8918573

    They said they aren't profitable, they're hiring too quickly for that. They're using the money to hire quicker, just like most other people use investment for.

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    Comment #8353991

    The story says "Google had a reputation of hiring only people with computer science degrees." Dunno if it's true or not, I'm just curious.

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    Comment #8353983

    Does Google still refuse to hire people unless they have computer science degrees? In this day and age that doesn't make sense.

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    Comment #8347776

    These are exactly the same feelings I've had, glad I'm not the only one who saw those answers as smug...

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    Comment #8347747

    I have had tons of problems with parse. Our app has both the iOS and website backends using it. While it is useful, and a lot of stuff is well done, when you operate at any kind of…

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    Comment #8260174

    Hack the program and change it so Windows surrenders, duh.

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    Comment #8120081

    Kodable ( http://www.kodable.com ) - Full time, Mountain View, CA What could be better than impacting the lives of millions of kids? Kodable teaches kids the fundamentals of progra…

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    Comment #8119939

    I was talking about the Hodor "Yo" clone. Instead of saying Yo, it says Hodor. I've got it on my iPhone

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    Comment #8119894

    That one wasn't posted by whoishiring. Someone saw that and killed it, but didn't feel the need to make sure the whoishiring one was posted

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    Comment #8119769

    As long as my "Hodor" app can stay around, I don't care. Hodor

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    Comment #8119694

    Kodable ( http://www.kodable.com ) - Full time, Mountain View, CA What could be better than impacting the lives of millions of kids? Help us teach the skills kids need in the 21st …

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    Comment #8088977

    But what about Pied Piper?

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    Comment #8038561

    Does the number of comments really change anything? Not criticizing just wondering. This seems like a letter-writing campaign without the added inconvenience of an office full of p…

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    Comment #8034824

    Say I have 3 iPads in the office, and I want to load a build on each of them. I know I can use Testflight or similiar, but the easiest is to just plug them into my computer and pre…

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    Comment #8034108

    Well I'd like to know build numbers internally, just only when I change things. So if I put build 12500 on 3 iPads, I can track the crashes.

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    Comment #8034059

    I've been using a version of this for about a year now. I even modified the script to work with two build targets. The only problem is that every time you press the "play" build/ru…

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    Comment #7885728

    Couldn't they have come up with a better name for a super-smart computer than "The Machine?"

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    Comment #7850658

    I've used cocos2d for my iOS app, Kodable, for two years now. It has worked great...for the most part. If I didn't need to support iOS 5 and 6 for schools, I would have already swi…

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    Comment #7747279

    I remember Tim Cook saying that hybrid tablets devices were doomed to fail because they tried to do two things and failed at both. That the desktop and mobile experience were separ…

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    Comment #7543999

    If I can sneak a shameless plug in here, I'm the developer behind Kodable - http://www.kodable.com - an iPad app that introduces kids to programming before they can read. I know th…

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    Comment #7401905

    Our stores will transition to being galleries, where you can see the car and ask questions of our staff, but we will not be able to discuss price or complete a sale in the store. H…