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HN: Please replace grayarrow.gif with Unicode character ▲ (news.ycombinator.com)

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Vim Creep (www.rudism.com)

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Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox, part 1 (eranki.tumblr.com)

396 points first seen 2012071309 last seen 2012071621 83 comments

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A 12pt Font Should Be The Same Size Everywhere (github.com)

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How CloudFlare's injected preloader accidentally locks up WebKit (www.saurik.com)

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Richard Posner: Why There Are Too Many Patents In America (www.theatlantic.com)

250 points first seen 2012071303 last seen 2012071606 82 comments

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Dad and the Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming (blog.stephenwyattbush.com)

243 points first seen 2012071309 last seen 2022011806 100 comments

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Betaworks has acquired the core assets of Digg (blog.betaworks.com)

242 points first seen 2012071309 last seen 2012071606 128 comments

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Fullscreen in Mountain Lion still renders second display useless (discussions.apple.com)

230 points first seen 2012071306 last seen 2012071406 198 comments

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When Art, Apple and the Secret Service Collide: 'People Staring at Computers' (www.wired.com)

204 points first seen 2012071303 last seen 2012071621 64 comments

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Vim, you complete me (robots.thoughtbot.com)

181 points first seen 2012071303 last seen 2012071609 113 comments

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We (unexpectedly) Got 60K Users in 60 Hours. What we learned (www.patrickambron.me)

177 points first seen 2012071300 last seen 2012071603 111 comments

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EpicEditor - an embeddable javascript markdown editor (oscargodson.github.com)

161 points first seen 2012071309 last seen 2012071609 27 comments

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Facebook Monitors Your Chats for Criminal Activity (mashable.com)

158 points first seen 2012071309 last seen 2012071618 157 comments

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Elon Musk: The Man With His Mind in the Future (pandodaily.com)

152 points first seen 2012071321 last seen 2012071606 72 comments

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What PHP 5.5 might look like (nikic.github.com)

146 points first seen 2012071300 last seen 2012071403 132 comments

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Rust 0.3 released (github.com)

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Digg sold for $16mil not 500k (techcrunch.com)

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My senior design project: 150 lb. Node.js tank robot (glench.com)

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The Market Has Spoken - and it is Rigged (economix.blogs.nytimes.com)

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PowerShell vs. Unix shells (stackoverflow.com)

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You Can Get a Better Job If You Just Ask (hash-money.com)

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Smooth Voxel Terrain (0fps.wordpress.com)

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Sexism red/yellow cards at Defcon (singlevoice.net)

88 points first seen 2012071318 last seen 2012071403 190 comments

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Gittip founder leaving day job, to find a living on Gittip (blog.gittip.com)

86 points first seen 2012071309 last seen 2012071406 48 comments

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Betaworks to Pay $500,000 for Fallen Social Media Star Digg (online.wsj.com)

80 points first seen 2012071309 last seen 2012071406 58 comments

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Thoughts on Rails, Node, and the web apps of today (paulbjensen.co.uk)

78 points first seen 2012071300 last seen 2012071312 98 comments

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SOPA architect now pushing for “IP Attaché” legislation (arstechnica.com)

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Filepicker.io (YC S12) brings cloud service integration to iOS and Android (techcrunch.com)

66 points first seen 2012071306 last seen 2012071500 13 comments

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UK anti-encryption law (falkvinge.net)

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The reality of the Ouya console doesn’t match the hype (penny-arcade.com)

61 points first seen 2012071306 last seen 2012071615 83 comments

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City of Helsinki Wants To Keep Software Costs Secret (fsfe.org)

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"Digg Overtakes Facebook with 1400% Growth, 22.6 Million Uniques" (dcurt.is)

55 points first seen 2012071312 last seen 2012071400 33 comments

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Clojure Obscura (blog.fogus.me)

54 points first seen 2012071303 last seen 2012071400 11 comments

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Twilio now enables messaging to over 150 countries worldwide (www.twilio.com)

53 points first seen 2012071303 last seen 2012071400 22 comments

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ODROID-X is like a quad-core Raspberry Pi for $129 (www.geek.com)

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Groupon Shares Tumble to Record Low (www.bloomberg.com)

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Yahoo Voice Hacked, Usernames and Passwords Posted Online. (news.yahoo.com)

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OOP vs Procedural Code (blog.ircmaxell.com)

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The Caves of Clojure: Part 4 (stevelosh.com)

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Facebook 'likes' and adverts' value doubted (www.bbc.com)

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Microsoft Officially Launches Its New Angel Fund And Incubator Program (techcrunch.com)

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A Quick Study - Fake degrees in China (www.economist.com)

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Dear Lamar Smith & House Judiciary: Have You Learned Nothing From SOPA? (www.techdirt.com)

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Dropping jQuery UI, and Refactoring Backbone.js Views (planscope.io)

42 points first seen 2012071315 last seen 2012071400 3 comments

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Python: Making ctypes Structures Beautiful (y4kstudios.com)

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The $99 Ouya game console: Exciting, innovative — and probably doomed (www.extremetech.com)

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China Economic Data Questioned as Electricity Use Slows (www.bloomberg.com)

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CSS hack: Predictable block elements (coderwall.com)

37 points first seen 2012071318 last seen 2012071500 20 comments

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How well does music predict your politics? (notes.variogr.am)

33 points first seen 2012071303 last seen 2012071303 41 comments

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Android Forums hacked: 1 million user credentials stolen (www.zdnet.com)

33 points first seen 2012071306 last seen 2012071400 21 comments

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Hallo.js, a simple rich text editor for the web (bergie.iki.fi)

31 points first seen 2012071300 last seen 2012071318 6 comments

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Show HN: Pushing all your emails to Facebook timeline (die.socialisten.at)

31 points first seen 2012071321 last seen 2012071406 17 comments

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Brewster: Hyperconnected Mobile Address Book (www.avc.com)

30 points first seen 2012071300 last seen 2012071321 15 comments

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Show HN: DeadMouse – Surf the web with just your keyboard. (chetan51.github.com)

29 points first seen 2012071312 last seen 2012071315 19 comments

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What do Sony and Yahoo have in common? Passwords (www.troyhunt.com)

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Rolls-Royce’s Latest Jet Engine is Made Out of Legos (defensetech.org)

28 points first seen 2012071303 last seen 2012071403 21 comments

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Should Applied Research Funding Go To Startups or Academia? (blog.scienceexchange.com)

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Simperium announces pricing and open source strategy for new data layer (blog.simperium.com)

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Automatic Remote Image Loading In an iOS Table View Controller (blog.parse.com)

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Heroku Postmortem of June 29th Incident (status.heroku.com)

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The Hubris of Front-End Developers (allenc.com)

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Yahoo hack steals 400,000 passwords. Is yours on the list? (www.csmonitor.com)

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Show HN: A streaming redis client for node (github.com)

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A 12pt font should look useful everywhere (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)

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Supreme Court ruling scraps royalty for music downloads (www.cbc.ca)

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In the Current System, I’d Be Corrupt Too (www.nybooks.com)

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How to get the truth from VCs (acrowdedspace.com)

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Why Did Ballmer Throw Nokia Now Under the Bus? (communities-dominate.blogs.com)

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How much will your first indie game make? (ramiismail.com)

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Nvidia Hacked (www.nvidia.com)

18 points first seen 2012071321 last seen 2012071400 26 comments

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The Rise of the Data Smuggler (markmaunder.com)

17 points first seen 2012071303 last seen 2012071315 11 comments

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Being a startup’s first product designer (blog.kicksend.com)

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True Ventures interiews Submittable(YC S12)about moving out of MT & niche (www.trueventurestec.com)

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Mongo: Mr Right... or Mr Right Now? (blog.scripted.com)

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Yahoo Breach Extends Beyond Yahoo to Gmail, Hotmail, AOL Users (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Semaphore CI has a new solo plan, supports PhantomJS, Firefox 13, HipChat (renderedtext.com)

13 points first seen 2012071300 last seen 2012071303 0 comments

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Should Error Messages Allow User Feedback? (rosiesherry.com)

13 points first seen 2012071300 last seen 2012071306 7 comments

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Open Conference Expectations (gist.github.com)

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Show HN: Securly - Keep your kids safe on your home network (news.ycombinator.com)

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Filepicker.io (S12) Smooths Cloud Storage for Mobile Devs (www.wired.com)

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Skype does not allow users to delete their account (support.skype.com)

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The Self-Assembly Line : When the Pieces Put Themselves Together (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Why No Second Hardware Startups? (rationalconspiracy.com)

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Three static code analyzers compared, using C source for curl (daniel.haxx.se)

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How to Manage Your Team During A Crisis (www.thedailymuse.com)

12 points first seen 2012071318 last seen 2012071403 4 comments

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Sprintly-GitHub (codehum.com)

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What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball at 90% the speed of light? (what-if.xkcd.com)

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Github profiles redesigned (github.com)

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Q&A with Higgs discoverers (www.time.com)

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Uber rolling out on-demand ice cream trucks this Friday (blog.uber.com)

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'Stereotype Threat': Why Women Quit Science Jobs (www.npr.org)

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Betaworks Acquires Digg (techcrunch.com)

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Microsoft launches the Bing Fund (www.bing.com)

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Call for a new open source economy model (lostinjit.blogspot.com)

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Ask HN: Am I the only Developer who's turned down offers to become a Tech Lead? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Single Antibody For Many Cancers (stanmed.stanford.edu)

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Social Marketing Startup Badgy Raises Angel Round (pandodaily.com)

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Ask HN: Writing my first iPhone app (news.ycombinator.com)

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The Most Common Mistakes People Make On Their Resumes For Tech Companies (www.forbes.com)

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Why has no one replaced speakerphones yet? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Google HTML5 Slide Deck open sourced (plus.google.com)

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Can Tumblr’s David Karp Embrace Ads Without Selling Out? (www.nytimes.com)

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Ask HN: What's with all the Vim posts lately? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Banana genome Venn diagram (boingboing.net)

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Ask HN: Is there a good analytics tool for single page web apps? (news.ycombinator.com)

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What Was Your First Coding Book? Was It As Cool As Mine? (www.flatplanetmedia.com)

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Show HN: Java bindings for LLVM, now binding to LLVM 3.1 (code.google.com)

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An analysis of Yahoo user passwords from 453k hacked accounts (www.stratumsecurity.com)

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Google Launches SERP Menus (blog.intigi.com)

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A New Objective-C Runtime: from Research to Production (queue.acm.org)

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Bitcoin’s Big Win (siliconangle.com)

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Share your favorite subreddits (news.ycombinator.com)

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MedStartr, a Kickstarter for Medicine, Launches Today (medgadget.com)

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Mayfield raises new venture fund, announces hybrid VC/co-founder role (vcinme.typepad.com)

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Why Only Yuppies Feel Busy: An Economic Theory (www.theatlantic.com)

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Delight.io is supercharged with full frame rate capture on OpenGL ES (www.delight.io)

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Hard-float optimized port of Debian for Raspberry Pi (www.raspberrypi.org)

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Nobel laureate hangs out on street corners, answering physics questions (boingboing.net)

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A New Objective-C Runtime: From Research to Production (queue.acm.org)

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The Glorious End of Higher Education’s Monopoly on Credibility (business.time.com)

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Make Use Of The 21 Spare iPads You Have Laying Around (engineering.madefire.com)

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Rails Testing and the Prince of Persia (www.hiringthing.com)

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How Crocodoc (YC W10) infiltrated Yammer, Dropbox, LinkedIn & more (www.xconomy.com)

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Walgreens and Kicksend partner up for photo printing from your iPhone (www.digitaltrends.com)

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Python 101: easy_install or how to create eggs (www.blog.pythonlibrary.org)

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Sanctions against plaintiff's attorney affirmed by 5th Circuit (recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com)

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Why Android Fragmentation Is Still a Problem (www.pcmag.com)

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Oh, great Internet gods, give JavaScript its TLD already (news.ycombinator.com)

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What is the most awesome Palindrome? (www.quora.com)

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Functional Programming in Java from a Scala Addict (coderwall.com)

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Factual’s API: A Good Fit for Node (blog.factual.com)

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The Only Thing That Can Stop This Asteroid is Your Liberal Arts Degree (www.mcsweeneys.net)

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6 Tips for Taking a Startup to the Next Level (www.readwriteweb.com)

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Livestream of me coding the next part of the Caves of Clojure (www.justin.tv)

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Bing Seeks to Drive Innovation with Bing Fund (www.bing.com)

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Wikileaks wins case against VISA (www.rt.com)

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Stop Blaming Craigslist For PadMapper Takedown (startupgrind.com)

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How we got to #2 in App Store without spending any money (www.markj.net)

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Entitlement (www.mikealrogers.com)

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Google Maps Comes in 22 American Museums (www.starwebworld.com)

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OAuth2orize - Implement OAuth 2.0 servers in Node.js (github.com)

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The Facebook tweak that killed a billion-dollar industry (tech.fortune.cnn.com)

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China to launch rare earth trading platform (www.zdnet.com)

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JSON Schema the new black for solid Webservice & API building (www.salesking.eu)

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Android Toolbox - Libraries to get stuff done (androidweekly.net)