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I work at Blink Health (www.blinkhealth.com) and we're working to solve this problem and offer patients a fair price for their medication, often saving patients up to 90% of list price. We negotiate with pharmacies and pharmaceutical manufacturers to get the lowest rates and improve price transparency in an opaque market. We have a kick-ass engineering team -- if you're interested in these problems and want to help us fix healthcare shoot me an email at alexander [at] blinkhealth [dot] com

Artsy -- artsy.net, New York -- Full time

Artsy's mission is to make all the world's art accessible to anyone with an internet connection. To fulfill this mission, we're building the largest public database of art for educational use, and making it easier to buy from galleries and auctions around the world -- all in one place. We have close to a quarter million works of art on our site right now from thousands of galleries and museums in over 80 countries.

We are hiring for engineering, design, and product positions, including:

- Full Stack Software Engineer

- Product Designer

- Data Analyst

- DevOps Engineer

See more at https://www.artsy.net/jobs or get in touch: alexander@artsy.net

David Sheff has a really great story about the night Steve Jobs met Andy Warhol:

"Andy took Sean’s spot in front of the computer and Steve showed him how to maneuver and click the mouse. Warhol didn’t get it; he lifted and waved the mouse, as if it were a conductor’s baton. Jobs gently explained that the mouse worked when it was pushed along a surface. Warhol kept lifting it until Steve placed his hand on Warhol’s and guided it along the floor. Finally Warhol began drawing, staring at the “pencil” as it drew on the screen."

"Warhol was mesmerized–people who knew him know the way he tuned out everything extraneous when he was entranced by whatever it was–gliding the mouse, eyes affixed to the monitor. Haring was bent over watching. Andy, his eyes wide, looked up, stared at Haring, and said, “Look! Keith! I drew a circle!”"

http://davidsheff.com/article/the-night-steve-jobs-met-andy-...

Art.sy was lucky to be the top article on NYTimes (the one with the large image at the top of their homepage) from about 5pm to 11pm, were the #3 most emailed, and the NYT article was #3 on Hacker News. We went to 1500 concurrents almost instantly, and maintained it for several hours. This is nothing for many large sites, but was the most we'd had. We had added some extra dynos in preparation, and our API response time actually went down as more obscure routes were hit and cached.

We prepared for the worst, though, and had built a failsafe way to progressively shut off more demanding features on the site (for instance: our related search results on artwork pages) in case we were getting overwhelmed. Much better to have a reduced feature set during launch than a broken site. Fortunately we didn't have to flip that switch!