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AMA with Barack Obama
(www.reddit.com)
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37signals Earns Millions Each Year. Its CEO’s Model? His Cleaning Lady
(www.fastcompany.com)
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GIMP is Now a Self-Contained Native App for Mac OS X
(www.petapixel.com)
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John Hunter [matplotlib.sourceforge.net] has died.
(mail.scipy.org)
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Yehuda Katz launches HN competitor - Lobsters
(lobste.rs)
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Walking out of an interview
(workplace.stackexchange.com)
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No Email
(blog.harjtaggar.com)
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TechCrunch is a bully
(www.lanewood.me)
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20 controversial programming opinions
(programmers.blogoverflow.com)
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Deploying at GitHub
(github.com)
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The truth about Goobuntu: Google's in-house desktop Ubuntu Linux
(www.zdnet.com)
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Keep a programming journal
(gist.github.com)
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Blit: a multitasking, windowed Unix GUI from 1982
(techchannel.att.com)
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What killed the Linux desktop
(tirania.org)
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American law is patent nonsense
(www.ft.com)
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Stripe CTF Writeup
(blog.ioactive.com)
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Advice On & Instruction in The Use of Ember.js
(trek.github.com)
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Tabasco Sort: a super-optimal merge sort
(www.pvk.ca)
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What 10gen nailed with MongoDB
(calv.info)
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How Reddit Got Obama
(allthingsd.com)
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Hopefully more controversial programming opinions
(prog21.dadgum.com)
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How To Cheat On Facebook Apps Permissions
(homakov.blogspot.com)
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What It's Like for a Deaf Person to Hear Music for the First Time
(www.theatlantic.com)
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Show HN: Coding.fm - Raining.fm for coders
(coding.fm)
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Craigslist Quietly Begins Testing The Feature It Sued PadMapper For Adding
(www.techdirt.com)
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Updated: We’ve Deleted Our Facebook Page
(blog.limitedrun.com)
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Bringing Google+ to work
(googleenterprise.blogspot.com)
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Ask President Barack Obama anything on Reddit (seriously)
(venturebeat.com)
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TrustEgg (YC W11) Allows Anyone To Set Up A Trust For Their Kids
(techcrunch.com)
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Teaching Kids to Love Math
(online.wsj.com)
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Is it rude to leave an interview early if you have already made your decision?
(workplace.stackexchange.com)
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What Successful People Do With The First Hour Of Their Work Day
(www.fastcompany.com)
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What Americans Actually Do All Day Long
(www.npr.org)
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Google Enters The Social Enterprise With Public Debut Of Google+ For Businesses
(techcrunch.com)
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Big 3D printing machine prints metal objects
(www.theage.com.au)
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Harvard creates cyborg flesh that’s half man, half machine
(www.extremetech.com)
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Haxx.ly - remix any website with your own css/js to share with friends
(http://www.haxx.ly)
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Low-Calorie Diet Doesn’t Prolong Life, Study of Monkeys Finds
(www.nytimes.com)
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The Money/Time fallacy
(thoughts.maayank.com)
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Twitter Launches “Twitter Certified Products”
(techcrunch.com)
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RubyMotion Apps Styled with CSS
(www.kickstarter.com)
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Building A Factory vs. Discovering A Goldmine
(www.sebastianmarshall.com)
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Show HN: Simplest chat for platforms and marketplaces
(gaglers.com)
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Scientists at MIT create mathematical model to predict alloy characteristics
(www.innovationnewsdaily.com)
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Sauce Labs launches support for highly-secure OSX & iOS automated testing
(techcrunch.com)
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Developers Vs. Bigcorp
(www.techfounder.net)
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Braintree’s Payments Platform Launches Across Europe And Canada
(techcrunch.com)
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Sony launches 20 inch tablet running Windows 8
(presscentre.sony.eu)
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Why the U.S. Wants To End the Link Between Time and Sun
(online.wsj.com)
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Benchmarks of Cassandra, HBase, VoltDB, MySql, Voldemort and Redis
(vldb.org)
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Samsung leapfrogs nikon with Galaxy camera, 16mp 21x optical zoom and jellybean
(geeknizer.com)
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The Really Easy SEO Link Building Strategy For Startups
(www.layeredthoughts.com)
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Apple vs. Samsung, and the rise of Windows Phone 8
(www.extremetech.com)
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How 3D Printing Is Inflaming The Gun Control Debate
(www.readwriteweb.com)
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'Lulzsec hacker' latest to be arrested in US
(www.bbc.co.uk)
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Simple Password Encrypted Files w/ GnuPG
(runtime-era.blogspot.com)
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How to Ace Your Kickstarter Campaign
(www.thedailymuse.com)
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Historical tribute and accurate remake of the original Pac-Man in Javascript
(github.com)
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Visual programming means anyone can be a coder
(www.newscientist.com)
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Lamer News
(lamernews.com)
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Mac App Store taking two months to review my app (video)
(www.darkheartfelt.com)
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Web2py 2.0 is out
(groups.google.com)
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SEC Proposes New Rules for General Solicitation of Private Securities
(www.stansburylegal.com)
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Munich Detonates WWII Bomb
(www.theatlanticwire.com)
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Why is Clean Code suggesting avoiding protected variables?
(programmers.stackexchange.com)
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What Would an Entrepreneur-First Political Platform Really Look Like?
(www.theatlantic.com)
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Patents and Juries
(www.alertdebugging.com)
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Coderise: Teaching kids how to code in developing nations
(www.indiegogo.com)
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Controlled detonation for WWII bomb found in Munich
(www.bbc.co.uk)
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Kim Dotcom: More assets freed-up
(tvnz.co.nz)
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Big Brother on a budget: How Internet surveillance got so cheap
(arstechnica.com)
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How I lost 30 lbs
(paulrouget.com)
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Inspiration or Plagiarism?
(www.kashflow.com)
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Lift.do now accepts new members
(lift.do)
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IPhone struggles to gain ground in China
(money.cnn.com)
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MongoDB 2.2 Delivers Improved Analytics and Faster Performance
(www.10gen.com)
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Calorie restriction does not seem to lengthen lifespan in primates
(www.nature.com)
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Ready For This? GlassMap (YC S11) Maps Social Network Streams
(www.informationweek.com)
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Anti-Pirates Caught Spying on Thousands of Torrents
(torrentfreak.com)
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The char *apple[] Argument Vector
(unixjunkie.blogspot.co.at)
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Reddit.com's code
(github.com)
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Lazarus Free Pascal RAD IDE 1.0 is released
(lazarus.freepascal.org)
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Show HN: Attach.io, a new way to simply share files
(news.ycombinator.com)
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If I were running Twitter.
(orangethirty.blogspot.com)
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What a Difference a Year Makes
(the-witness.net)
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Double Robotics on NBC4's Today in LA
(blog.doublerobotics.com)
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Why I'm not a founder
(bleikamp.com)
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Overlay101: Contextual help for your webapp
(http://www.overlay101.com)
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WordPress.com launches redesign
(www.noeltock.com)
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Upstart leaves you with “exhausting the PID namespace” or rebooting the machine
(gist.github.com)
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51 percent of people believe stormy weather can interfere with cloud computing
(www.citrix.com)
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Complete Concurrent Garbage Collector on FPGA [pdf]
(researcher.watson.ibm.com)
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Shattered Genius - Grigori Perelman
(brettforrest.com)
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CS Research Breakthrough: Max flows in O(nm) time or better
(jorlin.scripts.mit.edu)
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Thanks HN
(news.ycombinator.com)
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Ask HN: How did you learn Scala? And are you finding it useful?
(news.ycombinator.com)
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Job Openings at Amazon Web Services Reveal Its Future
(finance.yahoo.com)
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MATT TAIBBI: Greed and Debt - The True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital
(www.rollingstone.com)
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The Importance of Custom Code in an Ever-Changing Market (Part 3 of 5)
(blog.stackmob.com)
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Show HN: Control iTunes (next/prev song) with your webcam, open sourcing soon
(onthewallstudios.com)
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Oracle reportedly knew of critical Java bugs under attack for 4 months
(arstechnica.com)
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200 pages on why Apple's multi-touch patent should be invalidated
(www.scribd.com)
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Ask HN: Review my startup - chartburst.com
(news.ycombinator.com)
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"The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got" with Andrei Alexandrescu
(www.informit.com)
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HTML5 terminal w/ SSH, hit ESC on site to test
(liftoffsoftware.com)
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How to Treat Life Like an Experiment
(artofmanliness.com)
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Ask HN: What are you using to build new web apps?
(news.ycombinator.com)
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When raising money, never need a yes and never, ever be surprised by a no
(www.sneakerheadvc.com)
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Neopythonic: Before Python
(neopythonic.blogspot.fr)
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Ask HN: Can you reduce New York LLC publication fee by using a registered agent?
(news.ycombinator.com)
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Obama administration hikes CAFE fuel economy standard to 54.5 mpg
(news.yahoo.com)
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Most Forked GitHub Repositories - Infographic
(www.moretechtips.net)
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Braintree's Payments Platform Launches Across Europe And Canada
(techcrunch.com)
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My Stripe CTF 2.0 walkthrough
(jasiek.posterous.com)
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Digital Music Option Spotify Thrives in Shadow of Competitors
(www.nytimes.com)
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How I hacked Gogo inflight wireless Internet with Chrome
(blog.andrewboni.com)
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Link-Sniping: Twitter hates Instagram
(edwardaten.posterous.com)
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Lazy Initialization in Java - Surprisingly Tricky
(antrix.net)
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Broken Promises of Privacy
(papers.ssrn.com)
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DARPA red balloon viral sharing technique finds new uses for startup
(talkto.com)
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Unibox - A New Take on the OS X Mail Client
(www.macrumors.com)
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IBM Takes Its Supercomputer to Smartphones, Enter Watson, the App
(hothardware.com)
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Low-Calorie Diets Don’t Help Lifespan, Study Shows
(www.businessweek.com)
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Lift has launched
(http://lift.do)
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Alasdair resigns as OpenIndiana Lead Dev.
(openindiana.org)
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Ask HN: Writing better PHP
(news.ycombinator.com)
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Reddit page on BarackObama.com (view source)
(my.barackobama.com)
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Happy 40th birthday, video games
(www.gamasutra.com)
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Show HN: Eclipse Run Helper – Better Run/Debug support from the keyboard
(blog.sinjakli.co.uk)
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NASA's WISE Survey Uncovers Millions of Black Holes
(www.jpl.nasa.gov)
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Tech Billionaire Milner Aims to Accelerate Progress by Bankrolling Science
(singularityhub.com)
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Why Do Some Arguments Seem Wrong?
(rjlipton.wordpress.com)
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Ask HN: Anyone wiling to help a fellow dev?
(news.ycombinator.com)
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MongoDB 2.2.0 Released
(www.mongodb.org)
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Show HN: We released an improved version of our free web app security scanner
(www.mavitunasecurity.com)
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Revolt of the Rich
(www.theamericanconservative.com)
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Spreedly Core now supports Dwolla
(blog.spreedly.com)
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Vim for Rubyists part 1
(www.vimninjas.com)
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18 Year-Old Entrepreneur Raises $1.8 Million in VC Funding
(www.techvibes.com)
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Ask HN: Best site to sell a website?
(news.ycombinator.com)
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MongoDB v2.2 Released - Announcement from the MongoDB Blog
(blog.mongodb.org)
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Ask HN: Best compact news sources outside tech news?
(news.ycombinator.com)
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Of the biggies who uses Ruby?
(news.ycombinator.com)
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Spotify kills music
(www.reizbombardement.de)
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0
Support your local anything-but-a-record-label
(www.jwz.org)
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Yahoo Terminates News Chief After Gaffe
(www.breitbart.com)
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Benchmarking High Performance I/O with SSD for Cassandra on AWS
(techblog.netflix.com)
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Apple Jury Confuses Obviousness Analysis in Arriving at Record Damage Verdict?
(www.patentspostgrant.com)
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Obama talks beer, money, and war in online chat session
(in.reuters.com)
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Minimum Viable SEO for Startups
(www.distilled.net)
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Failing at Google InContent-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 X-Powered-By: Mojolicious (Perl) Status: 200 OK 1terviews
(www.alexbowe.com)
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Is FB Testing Out New Newsfeed And Skyscraper Display Ads In New Zealand?
(techcrunch.com)
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Obama jams Reddit but keeps beer recipe secret
(www.theage.com.au)
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iOS Engineer? Come change how business communicates - SendHub (YC W12).
(news.ycombinator.com)
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Clever (YC S12) is hiring a full-stack engineer to hack education
(news.ycombinator.com)
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