hackerNews

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Hacker News Parody Thread (bradconte.com)

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Ask HN: Webdevs, designers: what devtools should we (Mozilla) build in Firefox? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Vim Git Gutter (github.com)

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Show HN: Increase your productivity with ambient noise (http://www.coffitivity.com)

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Letter from Steve Wozniak to a high school student in Korea (yeonhoyoon.tumblr.com)

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Code Now relaunches as Runnable (runnable.com)

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Play by Your Own Rules (medium.com)

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Google Says the FBI Is Secretly Spying on Some of Its Customers (www.wired.com)

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The Humble Bundle with Android 5 (www.humblebundle.com)

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A Day in the Life of a Freelance Journalist (natethayer.wordpress.com)

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Twenty dollars in an envelope (justinjackson.ca)

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Wikidata, the free knowledge base that anyone can edit (www.wikidata.org)

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Teaching Square Roots to a Five Year Old (dlewis.net)

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Return of the Borg: How Twitter Rebuilt Google’s Secret Weapon (www.wired.com)

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The Start-Up Trap (blog.8thlight.com)

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The Myth of Japanese Longevity (asserttrue.blogspot.com)

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Show HN: My weekend project, REMOJōBO: a remote job board for web nerds (http://remojobo.com)

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Google services should not require real names: Vint Cerf (news.yahoo.com)

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The ways of Wayland (lwn.net)

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How Balanced Does Database Migrations With Zero Downtime (blog.balancedpayments.com)

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Why Haskell Is Worth Learning (spin.atomicobject.com)

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Matt Groening's Artwork for Apple (vintagezen.com)

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How I ended up with Mac (tirania.org)

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Preventing Unsubscribes in Forwarded Emails (litmus.com)

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The Biggest Thing Since the Light Bulb (www.creebulb.com)

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Lisp Hackers: Vladimir Sedach (lisp-univ-etc.blogspot.com)

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Show HN: Adult Cat Finder (adultcatfinder.com)

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Bitcoin rises from $14 to $40 in two months (bitcoincharts.com)

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Monads explained by Eric Lippert (ericlippert.com)

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You aren't getting any better (robertheaton.com)

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Last Wishes of a Dying General (www.jqpublic-blog.com)

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Introducing Roku 3 (blog.roku.com)

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A Manifesto For Error Reporting (www.drmaciver.com)

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An Embarrassing Bug in Mac App Sandboxing (blog.jmfd.me)

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Data compression proxy for Chrome for Android (beta) (developers.google.com)

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Show HN: Perl-based server-management tool (www.steve.org.uk)

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From Show HN to Funding In Less Than 3 Months (blog.geteasypost.com)

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The Startup Toolkit series (thestartuptoolkit.com)

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The one number (45) that explains Constant Contact's success (chrisyeh.blogspot.com)

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How to screw up your life by getting promoted (blog.thestartuptoolkit.com)

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Opera’s new Android beta is out; includes some pretty big changes (gigaom.com)

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Exceptions for control flow considered perfectly acceptable (www.drmaciver.com)

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Ruby-jokes/job_interview (github.com)

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Hide your health insurance status and pay cash instead (www.kevinmd.com)

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Building Backbone.js apps with Backlift part 2: Collections and Forms (gun.io)

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Platform as a Service Under the Hood (eBook by dotCloud) (www.dotcloud.com)

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Benedictus XVI (www.vatican.va)

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The Target Value for Bitcoin is $100K to $1M (falkvinge.net)

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WebAudio MIDI-fied Drum Machine (webaudiodemos.appspot.com)

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Everything I Missed in "Vim After 11 Years" (statico.github.com)

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Where TDD Fails (blog.precog.com)

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Linus Torvalds is considering the Chromebook Pixel as his primary laptop (plus.google.com)

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An HTTP client in Haskell using io-streams (blogs.operationaldynamics.com)

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Crowding out OpenBSD (lwn.net)

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Graphene Antennas Would Enable Terabit Wireless Downloads (www.technologyreview.com)

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ScreenHero (YC W13) Launches Windows Version of Collaborative Screensharing App (betakit.com)

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Bay Lights Project turns SF Bay Bridge into a ‘big-ass display’ (venturebeat.com)

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A List of Bad Words from Disqus (mediacdn.disqus.com)

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The new SimCity is seriously addictive (www.slate.com)

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Now I get it, the Consumer guys at Microsoft are just plain wrong (hal2020.com)

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Show HN: Node.js Hosting Platform with Integrated MongoDB (http://modulus.io)

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Dan Cohen Named Founding Executive Director of Digital Public Library of America (dp.la)

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Fake It. Trash It. Build It. (42floors.com)

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JavaScript Error Logging in Minutes (www.nikgraf.com)

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Great Recommendations Are Half Placebo (www.scoopinion.com)

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Reserved Instance Price Reduction for EC2 (aws.typepad.com)

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Gnome cofounder: Desktop Linux is a CHERNOBYL of Fail (www.theregister.co.uk)

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[Show HN] An experiment - Group Chat from just a URL (groups.gaglers.com)

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McDipper: A key-value cache for Flash storage (www.facebook.com)

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Gooqus (http://gooqus.com)

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How to write concurrent programs and why you shouldn't [2008] (queue.acm.org)

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Hetzner launches dual hexacore cpu, 128 GB ECC ram server for 299 €/month (www.hetzner.de)

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NFC Task Launcher Maker Tagstand Partners With T-Mobile, Other Carriers and OEMs (techcrunch.com)

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Join the Coalition for Reform of Money Transfer Law to repeal the California MTA (blog.rongarret.info)

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Phusion Passenger 4.0 Release Candidate 4 – Phusion Corporate Blog (blog.phusion.nl)

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The Problem With "Warby Parker for X" (jamiequint.com)

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Announcing Our First Investment, $20,000 in Balbus (blog.roughdraft.vc)

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Best Buy terminates ROWE program (money.cnn.com)

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Announcing: Distill 2013 (distill.engineyard.com)

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Kaspersky Labs: How scary can an old school programmer be? (blog.kaspersky.com)

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It's not a meetup (37signals.com)

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UK Court of Appeal rejects Tesla's appeal in BBC/Top Gear case (www.bailii.org)

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I actually have a project... How Zapier rode forum posts to 100m requests/month (blog.perfectaudience.com)

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Investing in the mental health of your team (shreef.com)

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Top Feburary Startups To Watch (www.startupplays.com)

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A Better way to Name a Company (customerdevlabs.com)

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Share code that uses new URL Search tool and win AWS credit (commoncrawl.org)

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Guess who likes the Chromebook Pixel? A guy named Linus Torvalds. (www.zdnet.com)

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The debate over evil code (erratasec.blogspot.com)

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Operating Systems Design Principles (c2.com)

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How to Accept Self-signed SSL Certificates in Selenium 2 (blog.mogotest.com)

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Talking with a porn chat spammer, a lesson appears. (tbbuck.com)

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Show HN: Chat SDK for your mobile app (http://www.chatterkit.com)

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Ask HN: What should companies do if they are hacked? (news.ycombinator.com)

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China's Tech Ministry Warns of Being Too Dependent on Android (www.techinasia.com)

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Show HN: Our Equity Crowdfunding Platform Is Officially Live (http://www.rockthepost.com)

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Developers, learn to design (blog.123ship.it)

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DRM Chair only works 8 times (hackaday.com)

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News Corp. Has a Tablet for Schools (www.nytimes.com)

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Ask HN: I'd like to learn how to build a computer (news.ycombinator.com)

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Crawling - The Most Underrated Hack (tomtunguz.com)

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How Apple caused the iOS Kindle glitch (pandodaily.com)

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Ask HN: How do you handle copyediting? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: How To Get Users? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: I own a 2M pageview/month website, am I capitalizing on this? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: know any Japan-based startups? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Lessons the "learn to code" movement needs to learn from Hackathons. (theycallmeswift.com)

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In The Security World, Android Is The New Windows (readwrite.com)

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Enough Marissa Mayer Made the Right Call (refer.ly)

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Need to roll out a PayPal like app with 300 bucks (fixed price) (www.odesk.com)

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Hexels: grid-based art program (hexraystudios.com)

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Hacking SXSW with PBJ and Whiskey (gklst.tumblr.com)

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The "Do it the Hard Way" Trap (brianrue.wordpress.com)

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How people respond to being filmed (with devices like Google glass) (www.youtube.com)

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Live Your Life As If Everyone Else Is Going to Die Today (www.jamesaltucher.com)

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Open-Source PubSub Server for the Real-Time Web (blog.asana.com)

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Taming Configurations with node-convict (hacks.mozilla.org)

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Ask HN: Why Settle Down? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: What do you like/hate about SoundCloud (news.ycombinator.com)

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Lawmakers look to legalize cellphone unlocking (thehill.com)

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Show HN: How To Oppose the CA Money Transmission Act On-Line (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: What search engines do you use besides Google? Why? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Coffitivity (coffitivity.com)

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Gnome Founder Miguel de Icaza Solves Identity Crisis, Moves To Mac (www.thepowerbase.com)

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Ask HN: which are some good self-help books? (news.ycombinator.com)

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A 3D printer in every home? Doesn't sound likely (jonasbentzen.com)

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Project Mesos - Twitters take on Google Borg (incubator.apache.org)

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Show HN: jsonip.com Pro (signup.getjsonip.com)

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Do NULL markers in SQL cause any harm? (lemire.me)

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ClearSlide acquires SlideRocket from VMware (gigaom.com)

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Where TDD Fails (blog.precog.com)

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More Than Gimmicks: How Obama's Tech Tools Are Shifting the Debate (www.theatlantic.com)

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Teach Yourself C++ in 21 days (comic) (abstrusegoose.com)

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Fostering Female Friendly Companies (femgineer.com)

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TSA to allow some small knives in carry-on luggage (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Andy Ihnatko: Why I switched from iPhone to Android (www.techhive.com)

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Emacs git gutter (github.com)

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Ask HN: How to sell a framework if there are free alternatives? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: would you share your stock portfolio to be able to see everyone else's (news.ycombinator.com)

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Inkscape: One progammer's journey towards art (precisioncode.wordpress.com)

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Ferrari and Apple are in talks to expand cooperation on in-car entertainment (www.networkworld.com)

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China reviewing policy toward North Korea (www.vancouversun.com)

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Senator Crafting Bill to Make Cell Phone Unlocking Legal (www.pcmag.com)

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Ask HN: What current startups are totally distributed workspaces? (news.ycombinator.com)

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How we worked with a competitor to win the "Netflix of India" business (blog.spreedly.com)

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Cloudspotting - An app to draw on the sky (http://cloudspotting.co)

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This Developer Harlem Shakes Your Website (www.wamda.com)

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The SimCity Experience (www.youtube.com)

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Programming's not for you? How about thinking? Be empowered. (www.hanselman.com)

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The Role of Standards in Cloud Computing (blog.sei.cmu.edu)

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Build an iOS image recognition app and demo it to your boss in 10 minutes (blog.kooaba.ch)

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Do morning people have a professional edge? (management.fortune.cnn.com)

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Operating System Interface Design Between 1981-2009 (www.webdesignerdepot.com)

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Technologies of Surveillance (www.schneier.com)

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Why American Eggs Would Be Illegal In A British Supermarket, And Vice Versa (www.forbes.com)

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JetBlue considering Wi-Fi game-changer: Free for everyone (skift.com)