We push code (after review!) to production several times a day and are working on some cool technical challenges like building a scalable trade execution platform, automating portfolio rebalancing, and automated tax-loss harvesting. We use modern technologies like: Ruby on Rails, Backbone.js, SASS, PostgreSQL running on Heroku.
Hey there, I’m a programer at Wealthsimple. We're currently looking for web, iOS, and Android devs, as well as engineers with expertise in financial backoffice, financial modeling, and analytics.
Feel free to reach out to me at peter@wealthsimple.com - happy to chat more about the technical problems we’re solving
We're on a mission to make investing smarter and simpler for everyone. We develop algorithms to track, manage, and rebalance client portfolios.
We're currently hiring Full-Stack Web Developers, iOS Developers, and Android Developers.
We push code (after review!) to production several times a day and are working on some cool technical challenges like building a scalable trade execution platform, automating portfolio rebalancing, and automated tax-loss harvesting. We use modern technologies like: Ruby on Rails, Backbone.js, SASS, PostgreSQL running on Heroku.
"HipBucket is the Doodle for online payments" was the first thing my eyes were drawn to, yet this sentence is difficult to process--maybe you could reword this? It looks like a cool idea though!
I agree with the above poster. Importantly, Doodle isn't a strong enough brand to capture your point quickly and sharply.
It's important to pay respect to Doodle; however, you need to capitalise on that first sentence. I think something more to the order of, "HipBucket lets you collect payments through a single link, safely and easily."
edit: And obviously pay due respect to Doodle in a later sentence. And I love GoCardless.
I was able to get some pretty good results using the custom stream feature (by artist, by genre), but yeah you're right it's not the same as a full featured search.
It actually isn't a mistake so I can understand your confusion. #111 or #222 can often be used without losing readability but this doesn't mean black is a mistake. When's the last time you went to a website and said "This text is just too dark!". Hopefully I don't come off too rude, the idea that black as a text color is a mistake is almost offensive to me. Different perspectives.
Well, there are plenty of studies that show high contrast makes for readability issues. For example, I get faint after-images that flick around the page when reading black text on white. It's very distracting.
I get your point about different perspectives, but for web pages we want everyone to read, we should be designing for the lowest common denominator.
Great catch. Although, in my defense I'm always looking to save time so I just used out of the box settings on the wordpress "Platform" theme. If you're starting from scratch on your own site, dont make this mistake :)
One reason I avoid using pure black or pure white these days is I blend text towards whatever is behind it. Text tends to look a lot heavier on the screen than it does in Photoshop (especially if the designer likes to use lighter font weights which generally don't work for the web), and you can really mitigate how heavy the text feels, and reduce the contrast (which mimicks the superior rasterisation going on in Photoshop) by moving the color of the text towards the colour of its background. If you have black text on brown, make the black text slightly brown, for example.
