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1
Are Those Spidery Black Things On Mars Dangerous?
(www.npr.org)
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Do You Really Want to be Doing this When You're 50?
(prog21.dadgum.com)
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Elon Musk Update About Tesla
(www.teslamotors.com)
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Mona Lisa in pure CSS.
(codepen.io)
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15 Years after the First Slashdot Post
(cmdrtaco.net)
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America to immigrants: keep your entrepreneurs
(www.washingtonpost.com)
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Andreessen Horowitz Invests $15M In Text Annotation Startup Rap Genius
(techcrunch.com)
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What strips vocals from audio when a 1/8' audio jack is partially unplugged?
(electronics.stackexchange.com)
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The Windows ecosystem reboot is bad news if you plan to move country
(owened.co.nz)
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Samsung claims Apple patent verdict tainted by jury foreman
(news.cnet.com)
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How we increased landing page conversion from 5% to 55%
(quicksprints.com)
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First SpaceX launch to supply Space Station is next Sunday
(www.nasa.gov)
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Google Maps API - More Than A Map
(www.morethanamap.com)
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Lockitron: $500K of Reservations in One Day
(blog.lockitron.com)
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Another Way Apple's Fight With Google Is Hurting Users
(www.readwriteweb.com)
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Why Startups Die
(www.pixelmonkey.org)
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Mitt Romney Calls Tesla a 'Loser'
(www.wired.com)
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Paypal policy update: No class-action suits
(cms.paypal.com)
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RSpec Best Practices | Best practices developers has been learning the hard way
(betterspecs.org)
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The dot enter mixtape: d3.js tutorial videos
(enjalot.github.com)
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In India, engineering students outsource their academic projects
(www.expressindia.com)
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Netbot: An App.net Client from Tweetbot Creators
(thenextweb.com)
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Sphinxtr: Creating a Portable PhD Thesis
(jterrace.github.com)
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Nokia Has Better Maps Than Apple and Maybe Even Google - Atlantic Mobile
(m.theatlantic.com)
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Rust 0.4 call for testing
(mail.mozilla.org)
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Doppio: A Java Virtual Machine, Compiler and Disassembler in JavaScript
(badassjs.com)
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Huxley vs Orwell: What will destroy us, infinite distraction or oppression
(www.prosebeforehos.com)
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Too lazy to write Regular Expressions?
(laktek.com)
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DoubleDollarJS.com
(doubledollarjs.com)
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A Modern Space Cadet
(stevelosh.com)
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A New Tech Generation Defies the Odds in Japan
(www.nytimes.com)
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Ancestry.com Acquires 1000memories (YC S10)
(blog.1000memories.com)
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Crowd Patronage: How A 400 Year Old Model Can Save The Music Industry
(bryank.im)
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YouTube Alters Copyright Algorithms, Will ‘Manually’ Review Some Claims
(www.wired.com)
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The oDesk story told by an insider
(www.storylane.com)
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NReduce Demo Day on Now
(www.nreduce.com)
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THE 2012 World University Rankings
(www.timeshighereducation.co.uk)
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The Pull Request for Designers
(layervault.tumblr.com)
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German police monitors Skype, GoogleMail and Facebook chat
(annalist.noblogs.org)
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Backbone and Cloudant
(cloudant.com)
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Study Shows Baldness Can Be a Business Advantage
(online.wsj.com)
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375 Million pageviews for $15 a month
(hubcitylabs.org)
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Doctest.js: a humane Javascript test framework
(doctestjs.org)
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I hired my friends and family, and I’d do it again.
(www.meetingburner.com)
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4 inches
(dcurt.is)
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Show HN: Tracking voter discussion of the Presidential debates
(live.votizen.com)
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How Amazon did everything wrong (but I still got to #1)
(artymiak.com)
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Hackers Breach 53 Universities and Dump Thousands of Personal Records Online
(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Ruby -vs- Python
(bitboxer.de)
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Hackert0wn
(http://hackert0wn.com)
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Dissecting the Massively Over-Subscribed Lockitron Launch
(danielodio.com)
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Dilithium crystal fusion impulse engine in development
(news.cnet.com)
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Rumor: Microsoft In Acquisition Talks With Rdio
(thenextweb.com)
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Putting the Brakes on High Frequency Trading
(www.nytimes.com)
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Ask HN: Selling my profitable side business. Interest/Advice?
(news.ycombinator.com)
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Andreessen Horowitz invests $15 million in Rap Genius
(rapgenius.com)
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Why you’d be stupid to bet against HTML5
(www.techrepublic.com)
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Show HN: Storylane - People sharing things that matter
(www.storylane.com)
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Android NFC Hackathons - sponsored by Verizon, Facebook, Github, etc
(http://www.tappednfc.com)
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Dear Netflix: You're doing it wrong
(www.lylemckeany.com)
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Using Source Maps with TypeScript
(www.aaron-powell.com)
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A New Tech Generation Defies the Odds in Japan
(www.nytimes.com)
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42% of US Internet Users Have a Facebook Account. For Twitter, It’s 16%
(diegobasch.com)
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Show HN: Add 3D gestures to your applications
(threegearsystems.blogspot.com)
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Modeling a pendulum clock in Javascript
(burakkanber.com)
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Replacing iOS 6 Maps: Hands-on with MapQuest, Bing, Waze, Google, Nokia
(arstechnica.com)
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Show HN: Shoeboxify is your shoebox for Facebook
(www.shoeboxify.com)
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What if Web Users Could Sell Their Own Data?
(boss.blogs.nytimes.com)
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The world's biggest hedge fund is managed by Apple Inc.
(www.nytimes.com)
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Ask HN: Fat founder, does it hurt getting funding?
(news.ycombinator.com)
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Show HN: Intelligent leads for hackers and startups
(www.leadmachine.io)
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Automatically archive all the links you share with Buffer and Kippt
(blog.bufferapp.com)
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Canadian Startup Wavo.Me Wants to Become the Social Network for Music
(www.techvibes.com)
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Dangerous People
(rdegges.com)
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Hidden ascii art in page source of BarackObama.com
(http://www.barackobama.com)
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Goggle Wallet Micropayments
(www.google.com)
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How Copyrights Ruined the Olympics and What You Can Learn From It
(blog.kunvay.com)
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Lessons Learned from a Redis Outage at Yipit
(tech.yipit.com)
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App Store Honour System
(www.mahdiyusuf.com)
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Text is Forever - A multi-platform approach to living a life in plain text
(marquee.by)
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Craigslist Does Maps
(sfbay.craigslist.org)
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Mocking jQuery AJAX with AmplifyJS Request
(www.elijahmanor.com)
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Neo4j 1.8 Release - Fluent Graph Literacy
(blog.neo4j.org)
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Why is it so hard finding a technical co-founder?
(news.ycombinator.com)
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Craigslist Rolls Out New Map View Feature for Apartment Searches
(thenextweb.com)
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The Dart Team Welcomes TypeScript
(news.dartlang.org)
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Craigslist launches Map View for apartment hunting
(sfbay.craigslist.org)
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Xcode 4.5.1, is out.
(itunes.apple.com)
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Craigslist rolls out Padmapper clone "Map View"
(sfbay.craigslist.org)
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Dear Apple: Deleting your users’ apps without notification is rude and arrogant
(venturebeat.com)
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Austrian Provider hosts Raspberry Pi for free (colocation)
(www.edis.at)
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Tim Cook faced an ‘insurrection’ over Bob Mansfield’s retirement
(www.edibleapple.com)
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Show HN: My first for-profit app - Beautiful, custom Instagram portfolios
(https://monogr.am)
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Tutorial: The best tips & tricks for bash, explained
(tuts.pinehead.tv)
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What do you want to know about Linear Algebra?
(news.ycombinator.com)
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Show HN: 3D iOS Map alternative for SF
(blog.recce.at)
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Storied: Capture and Share Family Stories
(www.kickstarter.com)
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MSVC support in FFmpeg. C99 to C89 translator
(blogs.gnome.org)
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Mitt Romney's Technology Stack
(builtwith.com)
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Casablanca - Async/REST services toolkit for C++
(msdn.microsoft.com)
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IOS 6 injecting should_group_accessibility_children to POST requests
(logicalfriday.com)
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Vivek Wadhwa Says U.S. Chases Away Immigrant Entrepreneurs
(www.siliconbeat.com)
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Quick fix "Unknown or expired link."
(news.ycombinator.com)
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StartupDigest acquired by Startup Weekend
(techcrunch.com)
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Lytro Director of Photography Eric Cheng Behind a Lens Below the Sea
(refer.ly)
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Two Relatively Capable Technologists Fail to Play PlayStation Game
(www.benmoskowitz.com)
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A Brief Pause
(ethankaplan.com)
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Ask HN: I want to put my desktop computers in the cloud.
(news.ycombinator.com)
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There's Never Only One Community
(alexhillman.com)
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A one web comic artist harnessed teenaged fandom to raise $2.1 million
(betabeat.com)
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Are patent pools the solution to smartphone lawsuits?
(arstechnica.com)
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U.S. Patent Office Opens First Branch on University Campus
(mashable.com)
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Opening up our research
(www.avc.com)
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LayerVault aspires to be a designer's best friend
(gigaom.com)
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Developer Spotlight: Hackbright Academy
(developer.yahoo.com)
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The 3D-printed gun: When is high-tech too hot to handle?
(www.extremetech.com)
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A Tale of a Server Architecture
(blog.flowdock.com)
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Facebook Now Lets US Users Pay $7 To Promote Posts
(techcrunch.com)
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Say Hello to Netbot (new App.net client from the creators of Tweetbot)
(tapbots.com)
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Disney Research 3D prints optical elements
(www.disneyresearch.com)
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"Plonk"
(rs79.vrx.net)
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Considering CSS
(macwright.org)
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Ask HN: Why is it easier to make money by being evil?
(news.ycombinator.com)
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API Driven Development (slides)
(speakerdeck.com)
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Microsoft’s TypeScript Fills A Long-standing Void In JavaScript
(www.readwriteweb.com)
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Customize Elastic Beanstalk Using Configuration Files
(aws.typepad.com)
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Ask HN: Tax consequences of server location
(news.ycombinator.com)
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The Data-Driven, 21st-Century 'Choose Your Own Adventure'
(www.theatlantic.com)
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Keep your AWS environments separate with IAM.
(collectiveidea.com)
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High-def CCTV cameras risk backlash, warns UK watchdog
(www.bbc.com)
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The black T-shirt crowd
(www.johndcook.com)
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Samsung's Claims of Juror Misconduct Revealed in Unredacted Filings
(www.groklaw.net)
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6 process tips for running a virtual team
(blog.quarterspiral.com)
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Ask HN: Directory of JS Libs
(news.ycombinator.com)
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Data showing most people dumping iOS Maps seems legit
(gigaom.com)
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Employer stealing my 4 year old side project
(news.ycombinator.com)
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RIP Bill_Nye_Tho: Creator of Twitter’s Favorite Parody Account Says He’s Done
(betabeat.com)
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Breaking Backend as a Service Myths
(www.kinvey.com)
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Debate Pivots: How Politicians Get Away With Dodging The Question
(www.npr.org)
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Ask HN: What are the colors of "productive" and "leisure"?
(news.ycombinator.com)
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Ask HN: Which startup or product ideas would you like to see built?
(news.ycombinator.com)
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AOL looking to spin out Techcrunch’s CrunchBase
(gigaom.com)
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Tapbots releases Netbot for App.net
(www.macworld.com)
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Blatant Lies Get in the Way of Building Customer Trust
(www.zurb.com)
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The Art of Negotiating an Online Media Buy
(www.gettingmoreawesome.com)
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Steps To A Checkout That Converts
(www.sweettoothrewards.com)
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Startup Weekend Acquires Startup Digest
(startupweekend.org)
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Ask HN: What can a nerd do with fiber connection?
(news.ycombinator.com)
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HTTP/2.0 - What is it and Why Should You Care?
(blogs.akamai.com)
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Ask HN: Why are VCs needed?
(news.ycombinator.com)
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Worldcam - Find Instagram phoContent-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 X-Powered-By: Mojolicious (Perl) Status: 200 OK 1tos by location
(worldc.am)
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Five Reasons to prove Linux is Secure than Windows
(www.linuxtoday.com)
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30 Linux Kernel Developers in 30 Weeks: Laurent Pinchart
(www.linux.com)
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Google's Nexus program to see "huge changes"
(androidandme.com)
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Derby authors hiring software engineers for next generation talent software
(news.ycombinator.com)
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