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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 …

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. …

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 …

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 to…

no, maybe we'll try it.

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 performanc…

No we didn't.

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 cod…

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 uniq…

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 believe it's the Mexican flag

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 d…

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…

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 r…

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…

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 c…

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 featur…

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'…

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 ar…

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 h…