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isn't this just that game we had as kids where there was a picture that was all jumbled up and you slid the tiles around to unscramble it?

http://www.tilepuzzles.com/default.asp?p=17


This has a similar name but no. You are give 25 spaces with 24 spaces filled with tiles. The goal is to slide the tiles around using the empty space until they are in order from 1 to 24.


yeah pretty sure you've described the same game with numbered squares instead of a picture


I guess you could say that.


http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3664769

also there are quite a few pain point threads if you run a quick search


I really love the idea of sponsored courses/tutorials. This type of thing makes me more likely to use Git and GitHub more, and evangelize more.

I have a tough time wanting to pay for a course at a place like code school when I know if I go through the docs/tutorials I'll get it. It's not that I don't think the experience is better, or even (for a certain definition) worth the money. I feel like it is an unnecessary indulgence.


This is beginner-level content, which makes a lot of sense as a free resource. We're working on a Code School "Git Real" course for the end of July that will go much further than this and be at an intermediate level, just like most of the courses we offer through a subscription or individual purchase.

I suggest you check out the first level of that course when it comes out. I doubt you'll think it's an unnecessary indulgence. In the meantime our Node course is good example: http://node.codeschool.com


It looks like if you sign up there will be more classes?


When I went back to check I got this funky dialog that wanted permissions I was not comfortable granting. Too bad.


Isn't it true that strong vision that people have a true emotional response to and believe in can move 100k people (or even more)?

Maybe an expensive "true rebrand" is a way to make a promise to your people and help build trust in your new direction. Also making it so visible and present can help remind people of this direction when they make every day decisions.


The problem is not only the number, it's the overall inertia between what management wants and what workers are all levels can get to. Management may have a forward moving vision, but it takes time to communicate it, to ensure everyone understands what it means, etc... and there are always resistances, too.

Plus, in a 100k company, I don't think 100% of employees are blindly following what the CEO wants them to do.


I didn't completely understand on the first read what your app did. I read it as taking video of websites -- which is silly, but I thought I'd mention it.

Maybe "Pick your favorite sites" is unnecessary right up front? You mention later it integrates with my favorite sites and I see YouTube etc...


Same here - didn't get it at all at first. When I read "Pick your favorite sites. Take a video. Swipe to share.", I thought that it allowed you to share videos that you found on YouTube or other video sites, which didn't make any sense.

I get it now. Head a bit fried today so can't really think of a better strap-line right now though.


Yeah, I agree. I removed the 'pick your sites' copy altogether - I didn't really need it anyway.


True. Perhaps 'services' or 'social networks' might be better words?


I think your headline doesn't work very well because it doesn't describe the actual process : you say

"Pick your favorite sites. Take a video. Swipe to share."

And what I would do is more like :

Pick a video I've made / Make a video > Slide to the site I want to send it to.

Or maybe I just haven't understood the process at all ^^


Facebook's too? Especially juxtaposed with all of the crisp white text?


Does anyone else notice themselves leaning to the left? I feel uncomfortable.


I heard Google Plus's Vic Gundotra say the same thing at SXSW. There is definitely a time and a place for ads, and while you're viewing intimate social content might not be that time.

However... recently I've been seeing facebook ads where they are simply reshowing old status updates from my friends where they have linked/liked products, and pages. I'm not sure that reminding me of things my friends have liked and linked to isn't a more meaningful advertising experience. It's certainly not sufficient to support Facebook, but it feels like a new, possibly more valuable, kind of ad.


I'm not sure about now but pinterest was virtually unusable on an ipad for a really long time?


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