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This particular "fact" actually has a known source. Someone made it up as an example of the kinds of things people will believe: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/swallow-spiders/

Volantio (YCW09) | Full Stack Engineer | Atlanta | Full-time | ONSITE Volantio is hiring an experienced full-stack developer to help us fix travel tech for airlines. We make some o…

I'll start things off. When I've used recruiting firms, they get something between 15-30% of the first year salary of a successful hire. I have the conceit that you'd get better ap…

If YC auctioned off a one time ability for a non-YC company to place a job advertisement on the front page, what do you think it would go for? Assume it would have the same behavio…

The UI gets in the way of an interesting product. Nothing a little user testing couldn't solve, though! I thought I'd suggest that you remove the underline from all of the lines at…

Thanks for posting! I live in Minneapolis and rely on the bus system for transport. So far it's easier to use than the NextTrip website on my phone. For my usual trip each day ther…

Then you will be interested in this case being argued today in front of the Supreme Court: http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/united-states-v-j... Here is the issue: Whethe…

Here's an explanation I wrote about how I handled my mail: http://twelvemonthsofsummer.com/get-mail-on-the-road I lived in it full time for about a year, inspired by Tynan's posts …

Perhaps slightly off topic, but I was in a similar situation recently (a replacement phone was overnighted from verizon via Fedex and my motorhome was not at an rv park). I don't k…

I'm visiting Mumbai this week as a tourist, but leave before the meetup. Would anyone care to meet early? I'd love to change things up and be a hacker-tourist for a bit.

I use msysgit locally on my machine with a svn repository upstream. Everything seems to work fine for me in my daily work. Like another commenter noted, the initial import took a r…

Oh. Thank you. I suppose I'll go re-read the other post and learn something. Is the term 'asymmetric key encryption' meaningful, or did I just make that up?

I've heard a different variation of the metaphor: I have box with two keys. When I use the first key to lock the box, it can only be opened with the second key, and vice versa. I k…

The time taken to fill the form is dominated by the time it takes a user to understand the field label and fill the input box. I think UX people use the term 'cognitive load' to de…