Quartzy's marketplace team builds systems to help find our users the best price possible for materials they use every day in their labs. We’re on a quest for an extraordinary application engineer who will join us to help grow and improve our marketplace applications.
You are a self-starter with a bias for action, and you can take projects from start to finish. You want to work as part of a small, tightly-knit team that moves quickly and pushes changes to production many times a day. You always admired your friends in science, but your knack for computers led you to programming.
Quartzy is a global two-sided marketplace for the life sciences. Our platform helps labs order scientific supplies ranging from beakers to capital equipment; we make life easier and save money for scientists and lab managers in academia and at pharma and biotech companies. We give the software away for free and earn revenue when labs buy their supplies from us. With over 200,000 scientists from all over the world relying on Quartzy, we help accelerate the pace of scientific discovery, and we need your help to accelerate our own pace as well.
What we're looking for:
- You have three or more years of experience writing clean, thoughtfully crafted PHP that scales.
- You have experience with other parts of our technology stack: MySQL, Redis, Beanstalkd, RabbitMQ, nginx, Git.
- You have the ability and desire to own projects that directly impact Quartzy's bottom line.
- You are a strong communicator. You write well and can easily explain complex technical concepts to non-technical people.
Does that sound like you? We'd love to hear from you -- go here to read the whole job description and apply: http://grnh.se/7nl1uo
Wow. This is horrible advice. I'm sure it works for the hiring company to get a better picture of the candidate, but this is unethical and potentially illegal in some states/countries. Legal issues are why many companies recommend/require references in a specific format- 'this person worked here from [date] to [date]', etc... devoid of any 'opinion' statements.
(Sorry-- Off-topic) HN Powers That Be: How did this get submitted twice? The URL is the same as far as I can tell... except a trailing slash? (see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2790700)
If you've done any daytrading, you've seen these algorithms in action. I know a few folks who could make a small fortune daily just by "fooling" the algorithms by setting extraordinarily high or low order prices, and rarely actually filling one of those orders. There is lots of money to be had (and lost) by mathematicians in the stock market, and there is a lot to be said for technical analysis... but it's a jungle out there.
Sorry that the first 10 seconds are shady japanese yogurt commercials, last time I looked the videos were $300 on ebay reportedly because PTJ had gone around buying up all the tapes (maybe the glasses?)
even though technical analysis may not have any merit, many people do use it in their trading decisions. thus, sometimes it is worth paying attention to.
If you depend solely on technical analysis and you aren't a total pro, then it won't work. For most people it should part of their overall trading strategy.
This spikes my BS mater just a bit. Are any of these people actually doing this? Doing it consistently? Making a fortune? (How small is small, btw).
If there was free money for the taking, someone would be taking it and squashing the opportunity out for the others. It's how markets (and especially the stock market) works.
Their YouTube channel has a lot of videos called "Gerrit's Diary" (the main guy building it), and he goes into some detail about the different parts as they are building it (it is in German, with English subtitles). I haven't found anything specifically about the programming, but I would love to know some more about what went into that.
I have just browsed through the blog of the project manager at http://tagebuch.miniatur-wunderland.de (it's in German).
Until now the only thing I could find regarding the programming are the following numbers[1]:
The control software has 145.000 lines of code[I guess for the whole model, not just the airport]
Just the airport control software has 70,000 lines of code.
He has added 200,000 numbers just for the configuration.
When I remember correctly Gerrit mentioned that his homebrewn code is mostly written in VisualBasic. As far as I know, he studied business informatics.
However, they are also using other software like http://www.railware.com. I visited the Miniaturwunderland this year and it was quite fun to watch the operator team writing down RailWare bugs into their own excel sheets.
The Miniaturwunderland model railroad is definitely worth a visit for every programmer! Then you can imagine how difficult it is to change things in large complex systems without breaking something.
This is a great story; I wish there was more of this. Obviously Pop Cap has something to gain from this story-- goodwill at least, since they mentioned proceeds will go to Make A Wish. Too often around here we're flooded with the "out for yourself" mentality, which I suppose rightly fits in with the entrepreneurial nature. This is a nice break from that.
Too often around here we're flooded with the "out for yourself" mentality, which I suppose rightly fits in with the entrepreneurial nature.
I don't think this is the case at all. There is nothing in the spirit of hackerdom where "I got mine" is the standard mentality. In fact it flies in the face of OSS development where people are interested in doing something because they thought it was cool and wanted to share it. Or they found a solution to a problem everyone is having and felt that the best thing to do with it is to give it away.
Saying that someone has gained something by doing charity is a very Randian point of view. Maybe PopCap thought it make them look good. Maybe they thought it would make them feel good on the inside. Or maybe they felt like doing because some kid asked and they thought, "oh, what the hell".
I don't think this is a necessary point to make. Of course they have something to gain. If I did something that made that kid as happy as he is in that video, I'd sure be better for it on a bunch of levels. Marketing bullshit aside, doing things like this is just plain good for all involved.
Further, I agree with the other commenter.. I don't really see the entrepreneurial spirit is ripe with 'out for yourself' mentality. Sure.. people are hustling, but most of the entrepreneurs I know are doing it by focusing on creating real value for people. I'm pretty thrilled with the brand of hustle I've been seeing in the last few years in this respect.
>> I would be reluctant to build a business around a domain which an unscrupulous domain "land-lord" could then redirect to a different site at his whim.
That was my first thought when reading that option. You'd definitely need some legal coverage if you decide to enter into that kind of agreement.
Interesting idea I guess, but the design looks horribly outdated... could really use a designer's touch.
"Watch web videos like TV" and "try it now" are the two things that people really need to see. Your "try it now" button should attract more attention.. you can try repositioning it, or increasing the size, or changing the color.
Add a header above the channels at the bottom saying "our channels" or something. I didn't realize what those links did until I clicked them.
Quartzy's marketplace team builds systems to help find our users the best price possible for materials they use every day in their labs. We’re on a quest for an extraordinary application engineer who will join us to help grow and improve our marketplace applications.
You are a self-starter with a bias for action, and you can take projects from start to finish. You want to work as part of a small, tightly-knit team that moves quickly and pushes changes to production many times a day. You always admired your friends in science, but your knack for computers led you to programming.
Quartzy is a global two-sided marketplace for the life sciences. Our platform helps labs order scientific supplies ranging from beakers to capital equipment; we make life easier and save money for scientists and lab managers in academia and at pharma and biotech companies. We give the software away for free and earn revenue when labs buy their supplies from us. With over 200,000 scientists from all over the world relying on Quartzy, we help accelerate the pace of scientific discovery, and we need your help to accelerate our own pace as well.
What we're looking for:
- You have three or more years of experience writing clean, thoughtfully crafted PHP that scales.
- You have experience with other parts of our technology stack: MySQL, Redis, Beanstalkd, RabbitMQ, nginx, Git.
- You have the ability and desire to own projects that directly impact Quartzy's bottom line.
- You are a strong communicator. You write well and can easily explain complex technical concepts to non-technical people.
Does that sound like you? We'd love to hear from you -- go here to read the whole job description and apply: http://grnh.se/7nl1uo