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by asuth 11y ago
This is great! We run Quizlet behind Cloudflare, and use Google Cloud for all our server infrastructure (>150 VMs). We've been very happy on both platforms. We'll be saving around $2k/mo on bandwidth because of this deal,
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by asuth 12y ago
Quizlet is hiring in SF! We are looking for designers, software engineers, infrastructure engineers. Quizlet is one of the rare companies to have achieved scale in K-12 education. Our team of 11 engineers ships code to 22 million students a
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by asuth 13y ago
Thanks a lot! The polish came from a hack night we did to redesign it. I don't think there's much to open source -- it's about 2,000 lines of code. It's mostly just writing custom sql and elasticsearch queries to show da
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Inside Quizlet's incredible feedback center(quizlet.com)
49 points by asuth 13y ago|11 comments
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by asuth 13y ago
Quizlet ( http://quizlet.com/jobs/ios-engineer ) - San Francisco, CA - iOS Engineer We're looking for someone to start and lead our iOS team as our first iOS engineer. We've put together a killer team across we
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Quizlet: How it really works(youtube.com)
7 points by asuth 13y ago|0 comments
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by asuth 13y ago
no, maybe we'll try it.
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by asuth 13y ago
Thanks for the note -- the performance problem was in set(), not get (that was lazy of me). We didn't have a lot of triggers running -- we spent a lot of time looking at performance traces. Just initializing models on page load was incredib
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by asuth 13y ago
No we didn't.
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by asuth 13y ago
For our recently launched flashcards tool, we built it in Backbone. Demo: http://quizlet.com/23770911/flashcards Our experience was that backbone was very helpful in laying out code and providing clean event triggering, but that a lot of
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by asuth 13y ago
Quizlet - San Francisco, CA. Lead iOS engineer - we're looking for a person to lead the development of our iPhone and iPad apps. We care deeply about education and do a lot of unique things to get in the minds of our users (16M uniques/mo,
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by asuth 13y ago
I was at a big edtech conference last week (Education Innovation Summit in AZ). Something like a dozen of the 100 presenting companies came through Imagine K12, which is incredible. I know a lot of the people involved, and if you're thinkin
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by asuth 13y ago
I believe it's the Mexican flag
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Everything I know about design I learned playing Starcraft(quizlet.com)
130 points by asuth 13y ago|57 comments
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by asuth 14y ago
The logging thing is really really dumb. Having logs in a real database lets you do incredible things (e.g. correlating user feedbacks to random problems you noticed). We use our db-driven logs many times a day to debug issues and find patt
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by asuth 14y ago
Quizlet, SF [Full-time, Interns] This is a picture of two kids using our unreleased learning game: http://qdaq.com/4j1.jpg We took this photo in a classroom last week where we were beta-testing our educational game. We want to hire engine
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by asuth 14y ago
Ya, logs are soooo much more valuable when they're in a database that you can query. We log to MySQL and then correlate logs with users, events, IPs, pages, etc. Logs are just as relational as anything else, it took me awhile to realize it
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by asuth 14y ago
Ya, I'm saying if I had done any googling, I might have found flashcardexchange.com or other competitors that existed when I started it, and settled for one of them. I'd say it was luck that I didn't do any research, and when I decided to b
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by asuth 14y ago
I don't see our competitive position as different than any other typical company. We've got a great product that people love, and we build new things into it that our competitors can't predict or move fast enough to build. We've built a bra
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by asuth 14y ago
Quizlet was originally for myself and then for my friends in school. It wasn't even a real business for over a year. I never did any market research or surveys. I just built features I wanted and features my friends wanted, and it turned ou
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by asuth 14y ago
FWIW, if I had done this before I launched Quizlet, Quizlet wouldn't exist. In fact, if I had even done a google search for the functionality of Quizlet, it wouldn't exist. Now it's 5x bigger than any of its competitors and a top 400 US web
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by asuth 14y ago
San Francisco, CA Quizlet is a learning platform for students that puts students in control of their own learning. We're used by millions of high school and college students and are a top-400 website in the US. Quizlet wants to build a next
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by asuth 14y ago
From the time I arrived at MIT in '08 to the time I left in '11, I witnessed a pretty huge shift in the interests of MIT students towards startups. Many people who probably would have gone into finance or defense diverted themselves to the
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Startups: a hidden lifestyle at MIT(tech.mit.edu)
39 points by asuth 14y ago|15 comments
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by asuth 15y ago
Just doing DNS checks might not be enough: `$ dig hotnail.com MX` yields results but is still invalid.
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by asuth 15y ago
ya, this. There's literally nothing jQuery related in this code. The jQuery part prevents it from being run in node or in non-jquery sites.
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by asuth 15y ago
It's a cool idea, but I think they're doing it wrong. We experimented with doing something like this on Quizlet, but didn't actually launch anything. We first looked at a lot of the data and doing based on string distance is the wrong appro
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How Quizlet schooled NodeJam(quizlet.com)
17 points by asuth 15y ago|1 comments
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by asuth 15y ago
All of this is easy to auto-detect in Javascript that you can have on your support submit form--so this page is not that useful. What is KILLER useful is http://showmewhatswrong.com . Instant screencasts from users of what is going wrong.
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by asuth 15y ago
this can be greatly improved (losslessly) using http://punypng.com / http://www.smushit.com/ysmush.it/ / downloadable PNG recompressing software. I tried it on several files on this site and some decreased in size by more than half.

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