CodeWars: the Hacker Society where devs compete • Hacker News Board

Re: CodeWars: the Hacker Society where devs compete

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Post by boatmeme » Thu, Nov 15, 2012, 1:31 AM UTC

That was fun! Hope to see more soon.

Re: CodeWars: the Hacker Society where devs compete

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Post by hellcow » Thu, Nov 15, 2012, 1:34 AM UTC

I wish I could see the whole leader-board or how points were allocated so I could improve my score. Otherwise, very nice job.

Re: CodeWars: the Hacker Society where devs compete

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Post by ninetax » Thu, Nov 15, 2012, 1:35 AM UTC

Ah, I just have to say I loved that I could just start doing them. No sign up, no email or anything, you just gave them to me. Wonderful.

Re: CodeWars: the Hacker Society where devs compete

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Post by thejosh » Thu, Nov 15, 2012, 1:36 AM UTC

ninetax wrote: post #23

Ah, I just have to say I loved that I could just start doing them. No sign up, no email or anything, you just gave them to me. Wonderful.

Being able to see what it was without dicking about with authentication was great.

Re: CodeWars: the Hacker Society where devs compete

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Nov 15, 2012, 1:40 AM UTC

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Re: CodeWars: the Hacker Society where devs compete

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Post by dpritchett » Thu, Nov 15, 2012, 1:40 AM UTC

hellcow wrote: post #22

I wish I could see the whole leader-board or how points were allocated so I could improve my score. Otherwise, very nice job.

I've completed every point-granting action I could find on the site and I'm at 4029. 2528 of that came from linking my Github profile.

I assume that component scales based on the usual GH vanity metrics. The person atop of the leaderboard (https://github.com/joho) has 700+ 'stars' between his 70+ GH repos.

Re: CodeWars: the Hacker Society where devs compete

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Post by nathan_f77 » Thu, Nov 15, 2012, 1:52 AM UTC

Oh man, being number 13 makes me really want to get another 300 points to be in the top 10... This is pretty cool, I want some more!

Re: CodeWars: the Hacker Society where devs compete

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Post by charonn0 » Thu, Nov 15, 2012, 1:54 AM UTC

exolxe wrote: post #20

daguar wrote: post #12

Not to troll, but this seems quite close to Codecademy and HackerRank, without much of those sites' additional benefits.

No worries, appreciate the feedback. Codecademy is aimed at beginners, we're focusing on experienced devs. HackerRank provides challenges, whereas we're promoting interactive competition.

It's somewhat reminiscent of RosettaCode or Project Euler, too.

Re: CodeWars: the Hacker Society where devs compete

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Post by recursive » Thu, Nov 15, 2012, 2:08 AM UTC

djisjke wrote: post #19

Is this for real? Wow, I'm sure a lot of rock star coders will hang there.

Is there anything that suggests that it is not real?

Re: CodeWars: the Hacker Society where devs compete

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Post by white_bread » Thu, Nov 15, 2012, 2:42 AM UTC

exolxe wrote: post #3

pspeter3 wrote: post #2

Interesting, what's the long term goal?

The vision's to create a global arena, where as devs we can compete and build projects that matter.

Can you speak a little bit about how this turns into a business?