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Comment · 2 years ago
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/
Comment · 10 years ago
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 of the world’s biggest travel sites suck less, by providing technology products to airlines and other travel companies (and drag them kicking and screaming into the 21st century). Everything we do improves the airfare search process for millions of people in at least some little way. One of our airline partners likes what we do so much that they made PriceWatch (one of our products) a core part of their brand identity. Here's an ad spot they put together: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWn8-QbRUKU
We’re a close-knit team and have a variety of challenging work on our plates. A typical day can consist of everything from optimizing the Fare Prediction System in the morning to putting the finishing touches on a CSS animation in the afternoon. Our work spans multiple technologies, cultures, and languages (both programming and spoken!), so we value high quality communication and a continuous process of learning from each other.
We're looking for someone with at least a few years of professional software development experience that wants to work with us. Most of our products are built on the Django framework, with Redis, a Postgres database, Coffeescript, and countless other technologies used as needed. You're not expected to be familiar with everything - that's what the 'continuous learning' is for! You'll be a core member of our team - able to develop the role and technology in a direction that you find exciting as we grow the company.
If this sounds interesting, we would love to hear from you. Please include whatever info you believe is relevant: resume, GitHub profile, code samples, links to personal projects, etc.
You can apply by emailing directly ([email protected])
Comment · 14 years ago
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 applicants via the HN ad than a recruiting firm, so I'll value a successful placement at $30k. On the other hand, a job listing on a jobs site could be as little as $100, but this low cost would be due to a lower quality of skill in the applicants and a lower chance of actually making a hire. I'll swag the chance of actually making a hire due to the post at 1/3, so I'd say the final auction price would be $10k.
Comment · 14 years ago
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 the top of the page, as it makes them all appear to be links and reduces readability. They will be just as prominent without that decoration, and it will actually make your sign up link more visible.
You may want to consider moving the sign up link to the entire phrase: "save your meal plans and make a grocery list ". People will probably click on that more often than the non-descriptive phrase "Sign Up". The latter phrase requires additional effort on the part of the user to read to text next to it, remember the sign up link, and make the decision to go back to the sign up link at the beginning of the phrase. It's worth a/b testing.
Interesting site!
Comment · 14 years ago
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 there are several buses that work for me, and what I was hoping for is a site that centers a map on my location (from my phone gps) and shows me all buses in my general vicinity. I would use this to select a route.
Feel free to contact me: noah at volantio dot com