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Re: Launch HN: CodeCrafters (YC S22) – Practice writing complex software

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Post by ikiris »

thrown_22 wrote: post #121
rahimnathwani wrote: post #110

I love the idea of this, and I disagree with others about the price being too high. If you're in the US/Canada/UK and planning to spend even a couple of hours per month using this to further your skills and career, then the value of your time investment will exceed your cash outlay on the subscription. That being said, I wonder whether you've considered offering a student discount for bona fide students? You could do…

I'll go further and say that a high price is a great way to screen out the worst customers.

Yep, don't want those uppity poors having any assistance to upward mobility my good chap /s

Re: Launch HN: CodeCrafters (YC S22) – Practice writing complex software

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Post by thrown_22 »

ikiris wrote: post #161
thrown_22 wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll go further and say that a high price is a great way to screen out the worst customers.

Yep, don't want those uppity poors having any assistance to upward mobility my good chap /s

Yes, exactly like that.

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Post by thrown_22 »

pelagicAustral wrote: post #160
thrown_22 wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll go further and say that a high price is a great way to screen out the worst customers.

You mean like a private country club? An elitist software product, yeah, I can definitely see that succeeding...

If you're not making bank as a software developer you're either not a very good one, or you care more about the craft than the money. The first group would give you terrible reviews because they are hopeless in general. The second would give you terrible reviews because you didn't include enough content on cubical type theory.

Either way you're better off without them.

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Post by Sakos »

sarupbanskota wrote: post #156
Sakos wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems to be down again? edit: Oh, no. It just isn't accessible from my company's network for some reason.

Strange - what do you see when “down”? Is there an error screen?

I just get a "Connection timed out" from my work's network. Works fine on my phone's mobile connection.

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Post by ctvo »

pelagicAustral wrote: post #160
thrown_22 wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll go further and say that a high price is a great way to screen out the worst customers.

You mean like a private country club? An elitist software product, yeah, I can definitely see that succeeding...

A sub-100 USD per month professional subscription is elitist? Have you worked in any other professional field? Finance, academia, medicine, law, etc. This is certainly not elitist nor overpriced for its value.

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Post by bertylicious »

zasdffaa wrote: post #148

This looks really good but "Build your own ... SQLite" is a bit amazing, does that mean a full SQL interpreter right down to the B-trees? That is a looot of work, too much really. Unless you pull stuff off the shelf like apache calcite perhaps (never used it).

I did the SQLite challenge in two languages and it's a very small subset of SQL. For instance it's sufficient if you're implementation of WHERE only accepts equals expressions with a column name on the left and a string value on the right.

But the great thing about their challenges is that they have you build some kind of sandbox that you can experiment on top of and try expand it with more features.

Re: Launch HN: CodeCrafters (YC S22) – Practice writing complex software

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Post by bertylicious »

Congrats on the launch!

I've finished three of the challenges so far and I can highly recommend it. They make it very easy to get started and the automated tests are just super slick.

It's just such a good learning platform where you'll have to figure out stuff on your own, yet Paul was always very helpful on their discord in case I got stuck or hit technical issues.

Looking forward to the grep challenge!

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Post by rohitpaulk »

bertylicious wrote: post #167

Congrats on the launch! I've finished three of the challenges so far and I can highly recommend it. They make it very easy to get started and the automated tests are just super slick. It's just such a good learning platform where you'll have to figure out stuff on your own, yet Paul was always very helpful on their discord in case I got stuck or hit technical issues. Looking forward to the grep challenge!

Thanks Bert!

Re: Launch HN: CodeCrafters (YC S22) – Practice writing complex software

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Post by sarupbanskota »

Mumps wrote: post #168

congrats on the launch! I'll definitely be trying the rust course over a free weekend. Is there a way to opt out of the leaderboard, hide it? This sort of 'challenge-ification' is strongly not for me.

We don't have an opt-out yet, but we'll certainly consider. Curious — why isn't the 'challenge-ification' desirable to you? It feels pressurising? Please feel free to email me if you prefer to keep it private! sarup@codecrafters.io
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