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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

Here is a per-state summary of job reference shield laws (sorry, not sure how current it is): http://www.crimcheck.com/resources/job-reference-shield-laws...

http://www.miniatur-wunderland.com/exhibit/video/section/air... and http://www.youtube.com/user/MiWuLaTV

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.

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.

At this point, they basically have no other choice but to acquire their way back in.

"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.

http://blog.typekit.com/

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/

http://methodandcraft.com/

http://webdesignerwall.com/

http://www.netmagazine.com/

http://webdesignledger.com/

http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/

http://www.alistapart.com/

http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/

Should be enough to get you started.

I don't think the solution is to bring back scores, though. A possible "simple" solution could be to color/star a comment above 50/100 points, etc. Comment scores could also be displayed as percentage or on a scale of 0 to 1, 0 to 10, etc. I'd be more likely to read a comment with a score of 95% than one with a score of 20%. This way you at least get an indication of the helpfulness of the comment other than just its position on the page.

Anyway, of course I'd agree it's worth fixing on Apple's part. In the meantime... hold onto your phones, I guess?

Let people sign in with Twitter as well as Facebook (which you have already). Encourage users to share the votes on FB, Twitter, etc (and make it easy for them to do so). Maybe have a weekly 'Featured Vote' or something. There are a lot of possibilities with a tool like this, it just needs some guidance. Giving people a way to "be heard" on issues that they care about is valuable.

Without some idea of exactly how it's used and how it will benefit me, I'm at least a little hesitant to sign into it using my Twitter account.

You may be better served finding a smaller niche and doing it really well, rather than having such a huge feature set that may be overwhelming to people on their first visit. You don't necessarily have to pivot to something less social, but I'm sure you can do some research and find out something that you already provide that church staff think could be much easier, and make that an emphasis.

Assuming you are an exempt worker (non-hourly), they obviously don't have to pay you for overtime, but you do have to be off a "full week" for a furlough week to count. If you do any work during the furlough week you will have to be paid, as far as I know.

You might want to check your employment contract or employee handbook and see if there are clauses about what they expect from a "typical workweek" or anything like that. Otherwise I don't think it is necessarily illegal. You can always call your state or federal Department of Labor and ask, or take it up with your company's HR department. Though if I were you I would fervently seek other opportunities ;).

37signals office seems virtually distraction-free. If you need groups of people to work together efficiently in an office environment (that is still comfortable and not a cubicle farm), this is the kind of space works well, I think. Because they have so many remote employees, I think they want their real "office" to be Campfire anyway.

There is a significant difference in philosophy with how the companies operate, I think. Zappos wants people to be comfortable (or 'at home') where they work, and 37signals wants people to work wherever they are comfortable.

Personally, I have worked on one site that was hosted on a (dv) server with Media Temple (for three months.. I was only filling in), and had nothing but good experiences with them.

Their prices are definitely high though, so I don't know if I'd call them exactly startup-friendly. I wasn't the one paying for the site I worked with, but if I had to pay for it myself, I'd probably look elsewhere.

Loren, just out of curiosity, would you be able to say how much you promised him for posting the link and removing the other T-Shirt links? ...or if you promised him a set amount/shirt at all. If that is coming up in another write-up, I can be patient. Thanks for sharing!