scottmagdalein

We just rolled out Impart. It's a simple tool for team leaders to send video messages to their team with a quiz/survey attached.

Team leaders are using it for quick weekly updates, replacing informational meetings, getting structured feedback from their team, sending quick how-to screencasts, and sharing thoughts from the road via video.

The format (video+questions) is effective for communication because it's more engaging than text and helps visual/audio learners understand better. Plus, the questions are great for reiterating important points and assessing understanding and buy-in.

I'd love for some team to try it out and offer some feedback! :)

This is really fun! Not sure why the shark keeps attacking me or how to get that sucker to cut it out. Maybe a little explanation of the shark would help. Didn't get too far so I'm not sure what kind of levels or progression there is. Well done on the overall responsiveness of the game.

I can't imagine the amount of electricity (even just for a split second) it would take to pull this off.

In this case the "mob" that was outraged was a small, very vocal minority.

One thing has nothing to do with the other.

First glance: it's really pretty.

Not really. Treehouse is a learn-to-code training tool for beginners. A blog post about typical beginner mistakes is pretty relevant to the Treehouse audience.

Scientists, if carbon dating is limited to ~50,000 years or so, how do archeologists date things into the millions of years with accuracy?

"some issues resolve themselves" is not true. What you really mean is, "someone else resolved the issue."

Wow, the Bible app is worth apparently $1.1 billion and it's run by a church in Oklahoma. Worth more than Google and Twitter.

Thanks!

To those who've read both, I wonder how [the first edition of] Eloquent JavaScript compares with JavaScript: The Good Parts.

Serving your spouse is one of several ways to show love. There's a book worth reading on the topic. It's old and cheesy, but it's really useful for our 8+ year marriage to stay strong, even after a year-long separation. http://www.5lovelanguages.com/2009/02/acts-of-service/

Warning: The book is written from a Christian perspective.

Cool idea.

This is all good advice. I can't think of anything more that I'd add. Also, I want more of this on HN when people submit ShowHN posts.

It seems like the main vulnerability was that it was built in true "scalable" Facebook style, but gifts need a more personal touch, which is harder to scale.

The specialness of Uber isn't the car, it's the driver that is summoned seemlingly magically from your phone and paid just as easily.

The drill analogy only works if you're quickly hiring a handyman to drill the hole, not a delivery person to drop off a drill.

Usability design?

My (American) cousin has a degree in German from a fancy school. She's now 30, a Zumba instructor, and still living with roommates in an apartment to keep costs down while paying for student loans.

She loves her job, but the debt of college is a complete waste for her.

This is encouraging. But it's not an MVP approach as much as a validation approach. They validated the idea/product with Mailchimp. The product didn't come until they started building something to "productize" what had already been validated manually.

This is what I want to do with a new type of email-based shopping experience. We'll see.

Killer. Bookmarked. Thanks!

When do you think this space will reach full saturation to the put that new entrants will find it hard to notch out a spot in it?

Don't quit.

I think he's being ironic.

Step 1: install Bootstrap. Step 2: get stock image and write trite copy. Step 3: post on HN.

Agree with others that this is both an interesting concept and looks hastily glued together. Also, the anonymity is worrying.

FWIW, I like this idea.

I love Bob Marley. I don't smoke pot.

The same correlation (or guilt by association) could be made by the people you follow on Twitter or your Facebook friends or the people who endorse you on LinkedIn.

Racist? C'mon dude.

Semi-retiring from parenting won't happen until those kiddos are 30. Just a heads up. ;)

Further, you shouldn't do this if you plan to leave it like that in the long term. That's robbing Heroku.