20121012     
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Conway's Game of Life, using floating point values instead of integers (www.jwz.org)
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Show HN: We open sourced Lockitron's crowdfunding app (selfstarter.us)
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The Magazine (www.marco.org)
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Building websites in Python with Flask (maximebf.com)
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Linus Torvalds Answers Your Questions (meta.slashdot.org)
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How (Linux) 3.6 Nearly Broke PostgreSQL (lwn.net)
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Otto: A JavaScript parser and interpreter written in Go (github.com)
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Introducing Go by Example (mmcgrana.github.com)
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A circuit and PCB editor in the browser (http://www.circuits.io)
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AWS Costs Cheat Sheet (dmin.es)
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Never Have the “What Would It Take to Keep You Here?” Conversation (moz.com)
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Colon cleaning company sues WordPress (insulaindoielii.wordpress.com)
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Skyscraper built in the Firefox inspector's 3D View (shaneriley.com)
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A Proposal For A System To Replace Ordinary Record Merchandising (1983) (www.zappa.com)
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The flask mega tutorial (blog.miguelgrinberg.com)
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US federal appeals court reverses Galaxy Nexus sales ban (arstechnica.com)
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Show HN: CSS3 Microsoft Modern Buttons (version 1.1) (ace-subido.github.com)
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Login Screen – behind the scenes (www.gosquared.com)
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MongoHQ launches new tools for monitoring and managing databases (YC S11) (blog.mongohq.com)
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Why the First Laptop Had Such a Hard Time Catching On (www.theatlantic.com)
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Prismatic's "Graph" at Strange Loop (blog.getprismatic.com)
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New Zealand prime minister apologizes to Kim Dotcom (www.nzherald.co.nz)
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The Making of Doom: Id's shooter masterpiece (www.pcgamesn.com)
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Show HN: LearnStreet - The Best Place to Learn How to Code (http://www.learnstreet.com)
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One sentence per line, please (Semantic Linefeeds) (rhodesmill.org)
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A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering (prog21.dadgum.com)
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An experiment: Can desperation drive success? (vutran.me)
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London Hacker News meetup: Thursday, 18 Oct (www.meetup.com)
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Stripe and Wufoo Join Forces to Power Payments in Online Forms (www.wufoo.com)
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Demystifying Garbage Collectors (xtzgzorex.wordpress.com)
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The Magazine: For geeks like us. By Marco Arment (itunes.apple.com)
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Why is Linux more popular than BSD? (serverfault.com)
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CourseTalk: Reviews for Udacity, Coursera, and edX (coursetalk.org)
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Lone packet cripples telco networks (www.scmagazine.com.au)
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The multi-core myth (scalibq.wordpress.com)
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Twitter Open-Sources Clutch.IO, Mobile A/B Testing Service (techcrunch.com)
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Exploiting filepicker.io (digitalmisinformation.posterous.com)
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The Lure of Chilecon Valley (www.economist.com)
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Heyzap (YC'09) launches "play with friends" for mobile games (venturebeat.com)
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How to Model Viral Growth: Deriving the Viral Carrying Capacity (www.linkedin.com)
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Heroku vs. AWS Revisited (www.smashingboxes.com)
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Hulu Struggles To Survive The Influence Of Its Parent Companies (www.fastcompany.com)
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Performance Tips for JavaScript in V8 (www.html5rocks.com)
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Like Alibaba, But Safer: HD Trade Services (YC S12) For Goods Traders (techcrunch.com)
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Panetta Warns of Dire Threat of Cyberattack on U.S. (www.nytimes.com)
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Infographic: US campaign finances revealed (www.aljazeera.com)
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Facebook changes Open Graph guidelines to stop applications auto-posting. (developers.facebook.com)
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Linux Foundation to offer signed solution for UEFI Secure Boot conundrum (arstechnica.com)
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The fast, reliable way to make localhost part of the Web (http://pagekite.net)
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Hey Entrepreneur – Please Don’t Get an MBA (naysawn.com)
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Eric Brewer on Advancing Distributed Systems (basho.com)
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The Rise of the Online Vacation Agency (blog.kangacruise.com)
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Nathan Myhrvold's Cunning Plan to Prevent 3-D Printer Piracy (www.technologyreview.com)
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Battle between generations due to baby boomer debt legacy (www.economist.com)
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An analysis of "The Magazine" (andycroll.com)
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Reddit Readies For ‘Inter-website War,’ Major Subreddits Ban Links to Gawker (betabeat.com)
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Turkish bank lets you wire/sms money to friends through Facebook (translate.google.com)
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Security fears pull Firefox release (www.bbc.co.uk)
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The software development final exam: Networking and systems (www.daemonology.net)
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Scientists discover nearby ‘diamond planet’ (www.extremetech.com)
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Writing node.js applications in C# (www.erik-kallen.se)
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Easy Retina Ready Images with SCSS (37signals.com)
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Trigger.io Native Plugins beta (trigger.io)
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Swiftype launches WordPress Plugin and improved Tumblr support (swiftype.com)
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Google is staffing a "Nexus Call Center" (www.geek.com)
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Show HN: SportsChimp: If Zynga and Bet365 had a love child. (http://sportschimp.com)
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Companies Can Now Claim Their Profiles On Developer Reputation Site Coderwall (techcrunch.com)
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XMPP, BOSH, SockJS and latency (mrjoes.github.com)
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Anonymous Ads (https://anonymousads.com)
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Handling Disk Failures In Cassandra 1.2 (www.datastax.com)
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Hey Entrepreneur – Please Get an MBA (gozman.wordpress.com)
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Saturday morning cartoons && hackathon (Chicago, Nov. 3) (CerealAndCode.com)
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Backbone and Pinocchio (lazywithclass.posterous.com)
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SkyBiometry: Cloud-based Face Detection and Recognition API (skybiometry.com)
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Csr.io - a better certificate signing request generator (csr.io)
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Attack code for Firefox 16 privacy vulnerability now available online (arstechnica.com)
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Paleo Diet Lawsuit Dismissed By Court in Blow to Free Expression (reason.com)
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We got hit by a wave of deprecation on Twitter yesterday (threads2.scripting.com)
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Facebook apparently down in several countries worldwide (thenextweb.com)
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The #1 Converting Keyword in the World (notprovided.com)
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Making It Right: Technical Debt vs. Slop (www.naildrivin5.com)
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The Emails That Got My Unsexy Start-Up Covered By TechCrunch (jamesdeer.com)
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The Art of Shopping Without Shopping (blog.paydragon.com)
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More women needed in technology (www.bbc.co.uk)
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SmoothLife - A (floating point) generalization of Conway's Game of Life (source) (sourceforge.net)
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Bash Shell Programming in Linux (arachnoid.com)
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Mozilla details how old plugins will be blocked in Firefox 17 (thenextweb.com)
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ITC Administrative Law Judge Rejects Apple's FRAND Arguments Against Samsung (www.groklaw.net)
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Keep your tools sharp (blog.filepicker.io)
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Ask HN: Cheddar iOS app analogue for Rails? (news.ycombinator.com)
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4 Simple Tips for Combating App Piracy (blog.betable.com)
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The original APL source code (www.computerhistory.org)
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Ask HN: Can someone with just CSS/HTML experience get a tech job? (news.ycombinator.com)
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EU receives Nobel Peace Price (www.nrk.no)
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Learn something already (blog.getsimmer.com)
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Xtuple/orm - A Javascript ORM inside Postgres (github.com)
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99 Startups (startupljackson.com)
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I Write, Therefore I Think (ninazumel.com)
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A note to all creators — coders, designers, entrepreneurs (discovr.info)
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Building Applications with Ember.js (emberjs.com)
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Apple’s Favorite Strategy Game Is a Financial Disaster (www.wired.com)
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Gumroad Stories: Nathan Barry (blog.gumroad.com)
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Your brain on pseudoscience: the rise of popular neurobollocks (www.newstatesman.com)
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Show HN: ☹ errorface, express middleware for fancy error pages (jgable.github.com)
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Hacking Buffalo Cheese (www.nytimes.com)
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You don't know what you're doing (and that's okay) (www.stefankendall.com)
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Nine Baffling Startup Names — Can You Guess What They Do? (www.wired.com)
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Shitcoin: a Modest Proposal (www.loper-os.org)
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Zynga Keeps Crashing, But Mark Pincus Is Having A Great Year (www.forbes.com)
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Fritzing (http://fritzing.org)
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Ask HN: In which class do you learn about threading (news.ycombinator.com)
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A blekko tutorial for search hackers (help.blekko.com)
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The Newer Hacker's Dictionary (cosman246.com)
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Seth Godin on books, business, choices and life (video) (www.goodlifeproject.com)
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Ask HN: how do you learn to code right? (news.ycombinator.com)
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Seattle Police Department orders two more drones for $150k (www.muckrock.com)
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Who has more power to change the world, VC's or Entrepreneurs? (www.storylane.com)
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After Raising $1.1M, TripFab Up for Sale Starting at $50,000 on Flippa (startupdispatch.com)
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Support the Internet Radio Fairness Act (blog.bittorrent.com)
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Show HN: We created an API to allow automated gold purchases (coinabul.com)
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Americans Are Barmy Over Britishisms (www.nytimes.com)
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JQuery Terminal Emulator Plugin (terminal.jcubic.pl)
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Curiosity Rover Finds Rock Type That's Never Been Seen on Mars (www.wired.com)
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Trolls filed 40% of patent infringement lawsuits in 2011 (arstechnica.com)
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When duty calls, literally: making Twilio calls from Zabbix (ducksboard.com)
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Node.js and TLSnappy: To lock, or not to lock (blog.indutny.com)
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The story of Freddie Kreuger, the brave three-legged cat. (www.codercowboy.com)
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RIP Tweetie for Mac (thenextweb.com)
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Same day shipping details for Amazon (order before 7am in some cities) (www.amazon.com)
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Windows 8 Shoehorns Touch Into Desktops And Laptops: This Won’t End Well (techcrunch.com)
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The Magazine launch day FAQ (www.marco.org)
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GeddyJS: the original MVC Node framework adds Mongo-style queries for any DB (http://geddyjs.org)
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Three Not-So-Obvious Metrics You Should Be Tracking (www.onboardly.com)
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How Nokia managed to drive its in-house Linux train off the rails (www.theregister.co.uk)
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Bitcoin, or How to Hammer in Nails with a Microscope (www.loper-os.org)
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'Fixer-developers' needed for web apps (www.scmagazine.com.au)
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Apple tracking iOS users again; hard to opt-out (www.businessinsider.com)
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Linode hosting review (www.ryanaverill.com)
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The Magazine: Introducing the app blog (virtualpants.com)
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TaskUp.com: Tasks by Email & Text Message, and more (blog.taskup.com)
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Anatomy Of A Redesign: How eBay Pieced Together A New E-Commerce Machine (www.fastcompany.com)
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The story of Nokia MeeGo (taskumuro.com)
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Ask HN: What's your favorite web analytics provider? (news.ycombinator.com)
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Ruby can lisp, too. (c2.com)
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Revisiting “Ranking the popularity of programming languages”: creating tiers (www.drewconway.com)
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Five days in a social media startup (failstart.tumblr.com)
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Create a Presentation Your Audience Will Care About (blogs.hbr.org)
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Appeals Court Overturns Sales Ban on Samsung Galaxy Nexus (www.macrumors.com)
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Making Google Maps more comprehensive with biggest Street View update ever (google-latlong.blogspot.co.uk)
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Google vs Romney (www.google.com)
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Is Online Communication an Asset or Liability in Sustaining the Human Journey (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Step by step guide to gaining your first client (blog.teamtreehouse.com)
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Fund Pulls a Yuri, Offers Blanket Investment in All Brooklyn Beta Startups (betabeat.com)
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How important is positive feedback in code reviews? (programmers.stackexchange.com)
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Don't just count every hour, make every hour count. (extensionengine.com)
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Restart Fund to acquihire "any" YC, 500S, or TS company (http://www.restartfund.com)
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Remembering Dennis Ritchie (www.h-online.com)
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MySQL vs PostgresSQL (www.wikivs.com)
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Speak-for-Yourself patent lawsuit settled (old.post-gazette.com)
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Amazon RDS for MySQL Now Supports Read Replica Promotion (aws.amazon.com)
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Mars rock touched by Curiosity has surprises (phys.org)
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Show HN: Calculating the probability of winning the US Presidential Election (news.ycombinator.com)
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Marissa Mayer Ready to rumble at Yahoo (postcards.blogs.fortune.cnn.com)
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WikiLeaks Goes Behind Paywall, Anonymous Cries Foul (www.wired.com)
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Elements of Software Construction (ocw.mit.edu)
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5 Mobile Linux OSes that Dare to Compete with Android (www.linux.com)
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The World’s First 3D-Printed Guitar (www.businessweek.com)
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SOPA Is Back … As a Ransomware Virus (torrentfreak.com)
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Custora (YC W11) is looking for a Data Scientist (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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