I think it's awesome that people are creating more games like this -- Minecraft is a huge success, which suggests there is a big market.
Another one I like is http://deepworldgame.com/
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Another one I like is http://deepworldgame.com/
Thumbtack is a new way to find and hire local services like DJs, photographers, house cleaners, and contractors. Over 250k small businesses around the country have joined Thumbtack, and we're making real money in the local services marketplace.
The team is full of down-to-earth, practical, and intelligent people. Everyday for lunch we all sit down to a meal cooked by our in-house chef. On Wednesday nights, we stay late for a hot dinner, some wine, guests, and great conversation. Sometimes we drink beer that we've been brewing in the back closet.
Ping me (chris @) if you want to chat. Happy to meet up for coffee if you're in SF. I'll also be in Boston/Pittsburgh in the coming weeks.
Thumbtack is a new way to find and hire local services like DJs, photographers, house cleaners, and contractors. Over 250k small businesses around the country have joined Thumbtack, and we're making real money in the local services marketplace.
Thumbtack's people are down-to-earth, practical, and intelligent. Everyday for lunch we all sit down to a meal cooked by our in-house chef. On Wednesday nights, we stay late for a hot dinner, some wine, guests, and great conversation. Sometimes we drink beer that we've been brewing in the back closet.
Ping me (chris @) if you want to chat. Happy to meet up for coffee if you're in SF.
(H1B welcome)
Thumbtack is a new way to find and hire local services like DJs, photographers, house cleaners, French tutors, and contractors. Over 250k small businesses around the country have joined Thumbtack, and we're making real money from connecting buyers and sellers.
Thumbtack's people are down-to-earth, practical, and intelligent. Everyday for lunch we all sit down to a meal cooked by our in-house chef. On Wednesday nights, we stay late for a hot dinner, some wine, guests, and great conversation. Sometimes we drink beer that we've been brewing in the back closet.
Thumbtack's gotten some good press recently because Sequoia just invested. (Very exciting.)
Our tech stack is a combination of Python, PHP (think Facebook, not Wordpress), Mongo, Postgres, AngularJS/Backbone.
Ping me (chris @) if you want to learn more, chat, etc. Happy to meet up for coffee if you're in SF.
Cheers!
Thumbtack is a new way to hire local services. We connect over 250,000 small businesses -- from DJs to French tutors to wedding photographers and general contractors -- with new customers every day. Our vision is to be Amazon for the service industry. We want to make it as easy to hire a service online as it is to order a book.
We work out of a beautiful loft office in SOMA. Our in-house chef and food culture were featured in Inc. magazine. We also brew beer and play ping pong, but mostly we work really hard to make a difference in the lives of our customers.
I'm chris at thumbtack if you're interested in learning more.
http://www.thumbtack.com/jobs has more
http://www.thumbtack.com/engineering is our blog
But I have to say, reading this on mobile (Chrome for iOS) is next to impossible. The scrolling is all over the place. Thankfully ihackernews has a "view text" mode that makes this more sane.
(disclaimer: I purchased Wizard a few months ago and have been exceptionally happy with it -- it's a brilliant product)
We're "Amazon for services". It's a big vision and our sights are set high. You can visit Thumbtack to hire any kind of person from home contractors and DJs to French tutors or wedding photographers. A quarter of a million small businesses around the country have joined the network. We've been in business for four years, are essentially profitable, and growing quickly.
We're looking for great engineers to join our team. H1B and new graduates welcome. We write in a mix of PHP, Python, and JavaScript. We value extensive A/B testing, excellent software engineering, bottom-up decision making, and collaborative development cycles.
The office is a fun place: we eat lunch together everyday (and dinners once a week), all food is cooked fresh by our in-house chef. We brew beer, hack on hardware, and play foosball in our spare time. The office is full of many warm-hearted and wonderful people who will be your friends as well as your colleagues.
Learn more at thumbtack.com/jobs and thumbtack.com/engineering
Any questions, please email chris@.
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});Glad you enjoyed the challenge!
Thumbtack is Amazon for services. A quarter of a million businesses have listed on Thumbtack, and we connect those businesses with new customers everyday.
Our small team is dedicated to excellent engineering and design. We eat meals together everyday cooked by an in-house chef. We work in a beautiful old warehouse in SOMA.
http://www.thumbtack.com/engineering and http://www.thumbtack.com/jobs
Email chris at thumbtack with questions.
Thumbtack is Amazon for services. A quarter of a million businesses have listed on Thumbtack, and we connect those businesses with new customers everyday. Unlike many startups, we're well on our way to being profitable.
Our small team is dedicated to excellent engineering and design. We eat meals together everyday cooked by an in-house chef. We work in a beautiful old warehouse in SOMA.
http://www.thumbtack.com/engineering and http://www.thumbtack.com/jobs
Email chris at thumbtack with questions.
Amazing.
Thumbtack is Amazon for services. A quarter of a million businesses have listed on Thumbtack, and we connect those businesses with new customers everyday. Unlike many startups, we're well on our way to being profitable.
Our small team is dedicated to excellent engineering and design. We eat meals together everyday cooked by an in-house chef. We work in a beautiful old warehouse in SOMA.
http://www.thumbtack.com/engineering and http://www.thumbtack.com/jobs
Email chris at thumbtack with questions.
Combined with `git add -p`, stg is easily the most useful git tool in my toolbox.
Thumbtack is Amazon for services. A quarter of a million businesses have listed on Thumbtack, and we connect those businesses with new customers everyday. We're well on our way to being profitable and looking for two more souls to join the adventure.
We're "disrupting" the services industry and have been covered in many major media outlets: WSJ, NBC News, Washington Post, CBS, Inc, USA Today, and hundreds more.
Our small team is dedicated to excellent engineering and design. We eat meals together everyday cooked by an in-house chef. We work in a beautiful old warehouse in SOMA. We play ping-pong (if that's your thing).
http://www.thumbtack.com/engineering and http://www.thumbtack.com/jobs
Email chris at thumbtack with questions.
In particular, the geology of Mars in an incredibly fascinating topic. If you're looking for a good primer on the subject, I highly recommend Mapping Mars by Oliver Morton.
Mapping Mars contains a history of the science, highlighting the major contributors to the field and augmented with interviews from such notable science fiction authors as Kim Stanley Robinson. A good discussion is, for example, how much water exists on the planet. Consensus is now that there is water somewhere, but exactly how much water, where it sits, how it flows: great questions that are attacked with lucid explanations.
Hats off to NASA and human curiosity for this grand adventure.
- Similar san-serif lowercase font
- Large-format images of modern homes
- Almost-identical name :-)
Of course, you should always be A/B testing, and congrats on the conversion increase.
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Thumbtack is Amazon for services. A quarter of a million small businesses have listed on Thumbtack, and we connect those businesses with new customers everyday. We're well on our way to being profitable and growing quickly.
Our team is young and passionate and dedicated to good engineering and good design. Some perks: we eat meals together cooked by our in-house chef, we work out of an old warehouse office in SOMA, and every employee has monthly credits to buy services on Thumbtack.
Our diverse and expansive small business community was recently a featured story on CNN Money. We've also been written about in many major media outlets: WSJ, NBC News, Washington Post, CBS, Inc, USA Today, and hundreds more. (Yes, our PR team is good!)
Apply at http://www.thumbtack.com/jobs or check out our engineering blog http://www.thumbtack.com/engineering
Email me (chris at thumbtack) with any questions.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/09/how-go...
In all seriousness, I think Google+ is a massive force. If you play the SEO game at all (and let's face it, most web companies do at least a little bit), then you have to pay attention to Google+ because it's showing up on search results. That makes those web companies more invested in getting their users to use Google+ and encourages adoption. Circular, strategic, very interesting to watch.
* Dropbox used rewards for more storage, as well as its fundamental file-sharing tools, to encourage users to sign up their friends and family.
* Airbnb gamed Craigslist [1] to encourage property owners to signup on Airbnb. With a strong supply of rental properties, Airbnb was able to build a true case for its value in the minds of travelers.
[1] http://venturebeat.com/2011/06/02/airbnb-admits-gaming-craig...
Thumbtack is hiring awesome software engineers to transform the way services are bought and sold online. We're Amazon for services. A quarter of a million small businesses have listed on Thumbtack, and we connect those businesses with new customers everyday. We're well on our way to being profitable and growing quickly.
Our team is young and passionate and dedicated to good engineering. We have extensive benefits, including a in-house chef, a gorgeous office in SOMA, and money to spend on Thumbtack services every month.
Our delicious food culture was recently the top story on Inc.com.
Apply at http://www.thumbtack.com/jobs
Or email chris at thumbtack with any questions.
Thumbtack is hiring awesome software engineers to transform the way services are bought and sold online. We're Amazon for services. A quarter of a million small businesses have listed on Thumbtack, and we connect those businesses with new customers everyday. We're well on our way to being profitable and growing quickly.
Our team is young and passionate and dedicated to good engineering. We have extensive benefits, including a in-house chef, a gorgeous office in SOMA, and money to spend on Thumbtack services every month.
Our delicious food culture was recently the top story on Inc.com.
Apply at http://www.thumbtack.com/jobs
Or email chris at thumbtack with any questions.
We use a similar pattern that we internally call "Actions". An Action, in our parlance, is similar to the Command pattern from the Gang of Four. It can be invoked from anywhere and performs a single state change on a single model, or even multiple models (if several need to be updated at the same time, in the same transaction).
Separating Actions from Models was a huge step in writing readable code, and it's immediately clear what is happening in the system at any given time. Any Action can invoke any number of "child" actions, as well, to maintain encapsulation. For example: when a user registers on the site, we trigger a RegisterUser action, which in turn calls a CreateUser action and a LoginUser action.
Basically, we took any complicated method on our models and turned them into Action classes. Common concepts like database transactions, logging, event tracking, and so forth, can now be abstracted away, and don't need to be re-implemented in each model class. It's a huge productivity increase and a real win for software engineering.
I highly recommend this general approach to any large software system, and I'm grateful that we're all experimenting with things beyond MVC.
Software Engineer, Front-end and back-end engineers
Thumbtack is hiring awesome software engineers to transform the way services are bought and sold online. We're Amazon for services. A quarter of a million small businesses have listed on Thumbtack, and we connect those businesses with new customers everyday. We're well on our way to being profitable and growing quickly.
Our team is young and passionate and dedicated to good engineering. We have extensive benefits, including a in-house chef, a gorgeous office in SOMA, and money to spend on Thumbtack services every month.
Our delicious food culture was recently the top story on Inc.com.
Apply at http://www.thumbtack.com/jobs
Or email chris at thumbtack with any questions.
This article was originally posted on June 6th. It's now June 29th. After 23 days, this issue is still not resolved.
I'm not a user of the app or a fan, but I find this incredibly curious and sadly opaque.