The example on the homepage started a countdown from 1 minute, it was "Loading the task" until there were 7 seconds left, then by that time I'd lost interested and it just said "Game Over".
Game over indeed.
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#22I would love if HN had a "Save" button -- save an item into a personal list so I can, for instance, retry a link later after the HN effect has stopped...
Upvote the link, it will get saved under your profile "saved stories"
Yeah I know that but alas this isn't "Saved stories", this is barely "Random mess of stuff I've liked, stuff I wanted to keep an eye on and stuff I wanted to look at later"
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#23Liking the idea, too bad it's simply an awful experience with all the HN traffic. I hit "Sign up with Facebook", then "Edit what CodeFights can see", and the counter had already begun. After authenticating I got an empty pop-up which I closed by myself, and I finished the challenge. I then got the error "Authentication error".
However, I like the idea and understand that this experience is not what you've made so I'll give it a chance and upvoted it.
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#24One suggestion for the founders, don't start the timer until the code has loaded, and stop the timer once you submit. I lost 10-15 seconds to loading the code and then got game over because i submitted with 10 seconds left and it took longer than that to actually send.
Same thing for me. Start the timer when the code is loaded and stop the timer when the user pressed Ctrl+Enter.
One other suggestion is to add Cmd+Enter for mac user.
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#25Maybe I'm just showing my low IQ, but it takes me 20 or 30 seconds just to understand some of the problems. Maybe introduce difficulty levels? Currently, I can't ever solve a problem if it takes me more than 1 minute - I'd like to be able to get to an answer, even if it's then worth zero points (or even goes into negative points?).
I like the idea, but I can't play more than 2 or 3 rounds. Or maybe the game just isn't aimed for people like me...
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#26Seems really nice, but coul'd you add a solution if you fail in time? would be really awesome
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#27Great idea but sadly I cant try it out :( Using Firefox on Android and the stock Browser I was finally able to login using g+ but I can't edit the code. I can add something but I can't delete anything that was already there. E.g. I can't change return a to return b. Using chrome I can't even login. Authenticate using g+ sometimes directly shows authorization failed and sometimes opens a new tab to codefights.com/_oauth/google?state=xyz&code=xyz that seems to do nothing. If I close it, I get authorization failed as before.
Everything I currently do is done on Android 4.4.4 because I just have a smartphone (N5) available ATM.
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#28I would love if HN had a "Save" button -- save an item into a personal list so I can, for instance, retry a link later after the HN effect has stopped...
Browser bookmarks?
I have a pile of "to do" "to read" "business idea" tags that I never get around to looking at ...
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#29Maybe I'm just showing my low IQ, but it takes me 20 or 30 seconds just to understand some of the problems. Maybe introduce difficulty levels? Currently, I can't ever solve a problem if it takes me more than 1 minute - I'd like to be able to get to an answer, even if it's then worth zero points (or even goes into negative points?). I like the idea, but I can't play more than 2 or 3 rounds. Or maybe the game just isn'…
I tried, I'm not a coder, submitted 2 of 3 solutions but just got "game over" back. Would be nice to see a solution, even better with explanation.
Definitely felt like I was being secretly profiled for a job. Also considered the possibility that if you're good they drop in some segments of code found automatically to have bugs and have you fix them for free ;0)
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#30It should show you the correct answer if you get it wrong.