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Show HN: My seven minute workout timer evening project. Complete with pictures. (7-min.com)

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Poll: Do you use your real identity on HN? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Newegg nukes "corporate troll" Alcatel in third patent appeal win this year (arstechnica.com)

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What's next Google? Dropping SMTP support? (eschnou.com)

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HN, I'm lost. Please help. (pastebin.com)

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Bunny.py: A WiFi darknet that hides its traffic in the noise of 802.11 (github.com)

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Fish shell 2.0 (ridiculousfish.com)

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D-Wave: Truth finally starts to emerge (www.scottaaronson.com)

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A 75-Year Harvard Study Finds What It Takes To Live A Happy Life (www.businessinsider.com)

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Open Source Is Not A Warzone. (sushee.no-ip.org)

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Polymer, a Web Components library built by Google (www.polymer-project.org)

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Not Having A Real Job (edu.mkrecny.com)

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RethinkDB 1.5 released: secondary indexes, soft durability, perf improvements (www.rethinkdb.com)

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AWS Redshift: How Amazon Changed The Game (blog.aggregateknowledge.com)

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Welcome Kevin, Michael, Steve, Dalton, and Andrew (blog.ycombinator.com)

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Yahoo buys GeoCities (1999) (money.cnn.com)

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Memory Allocators 101 (jamesgolick.com)

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Genius of our time (domleca.com)

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Chrome’s requestAutocomplete() (blog.alexmaccaw.com)

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Vim hall of honour (www.vim.org)

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Mark 1 FORTH Computer (www.holmea.demon.co.uk)

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New Google+ is beautiful? (alexdong.com)

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How to automatically choose a camera viewing angle for any 3D model (blog.cubehero.com)

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Google+ Games is shutting down (support.google.com)

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Andrew Mason at YC (smandrew.com)

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How Google updated Android without releasing version 4.3 (arstechnica.com)

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Kim Dotcom Granted New Zealand Supreme Court Appeal Over U.S. Evidence (torrentfreak.com)

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24 year old Ogilvy China employee dies from 'overwork' (shanghaiist.com)

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Reactor.js: simple reactive programming for Javascript (github.com)

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Introducing ProMotion, a Full-Featured RubyMotion Application Framework (blog.rubymotion.com)

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Skype with care – Microsoft is reading everything you write (www.h-online.com)

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Nintendo NES console in CSS (codepen.io)

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Show HN: My latest work for the Google I/O '13 Keynote (albertomoss.com)

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How Lean Domain Search's Brandable Domain Name Generation Algorithm works (www.leandomainsearch.com)

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A Journey Through the CPU Pipeline (www.gamedev.net)

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Upgrading to Sublime Text 3 (harrywolff.com)

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Alternatives To Git Submodule: Git Subtree (blogs.atlassian.com)

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Zynga Ports Cocos2D-X to Emscripten (code.zynga.com)

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Australian government accused of sneaking in web filter (www.brisbanetimes.com.au)

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How often do iOS users update? - The Pareto Distribution (octopart.com)

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Yahoo looking to acquire Tumblr? (news.cnet.com)

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Pebble Raises $15 Million as Wave of Smart Watches Arrives (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Apparently standing desks can hurt too (blog.jasonsemko.com)

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A primer for fundraising on Angel List (thehalltruth.co)

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Does LinkedIn have a prostitution problem? (stream.aljazeera.com)

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LulzSec hackers jailed. (www.theregister.co.uk)

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Extreme syntax (www.johndcook.com)

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Tolerating the Surface Pro (ozar.me)

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Man Flies Drone Near Seattle Residence (www.theatlantic.com)

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Is Google turning Gmail into an App platform? (blog.stunf.com)

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Show HN: Here is our first app after 6 months working on it. What do you think? (https://yosee.com)

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Why is violent crime so rare in Iceland? (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Show HN: gamedevwebtools (github.com)

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The Tragic Beauty of Google+ (stratechery.com)

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Feeling Sorry for Tsarnaev (www.newyorker.com)

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Notch, when asked, refused to take Minecraft revenue from YouTube (twitter.com)

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PyPy 2.0.1 - Bohr Smørrebrød (morepypy.blogspot.co.uk)

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Google confirms Nexus Q not supported in latest version of Play Music (www.engadget.com)

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RethinkDB 1.5: secondary indexes, batched inserts, much more (rethinkdb.com)

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EmberCasts (www.embercasts.com)

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Do web designers actually use the internet? (www.caitlinrivers.com)

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When to refactor code (mikemainguy.blogspot.com)

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Creating View Controllers for Deep Linked iOS Apps (benroesch.com)

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Internationalisation for beginners (vincentsanders.blogspot.co.uk)

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Android Studio - The Beginning of Google's 'Xcode' (taylorbeck.me)

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The Quest for the ideal CEO-type Co-Founder (medium.com)

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Dagen H – the day Sweden switched to driving on the right (en.wikipedia.org)

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Reservoir deep under Ontario holds billion-year-old water (www.nature.com)

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What Apple Needs to Introduce at WWDC (carpeaqua.com)

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Google urges fast adoption of VP9 video compression (news.cnet.com)

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Why French Kids Don't Have ADHD (www.psychologytoday.com)

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What We Mean When We Say 'Race Is a Social Construct' (www.theatlantic.com)

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Show HN: CoderNews (github.com)

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Zynga wants me to change the name of my product (jtame.com)

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How I Got Started at Airbnb (nerds.airbnb.com)

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I guess I’ll never get to that novel (medium.com)

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Google solved Android fragmentation and forgot to tell everybody (ishouldhaveknownthisbefore.wordpress.com)

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Why Goldman Sachs Just Bet $500 Million on Elon Musk's Solar Business (www.theatlantic.com)

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All the Mashed Potatoes (daringfireball.net)

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Ask HN: Why can't I get started? (news.ycombinator.com)

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A fascinating map of the world’s most and least racially tolerant countries (www.washingtonpost.com)

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CSS3 Only 3D MacBook Air (brkcan.net)

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Go 1.1 and Juju (videos from GoSF) (blog.iron.io)

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What Europeans think of each other (www.economist.com)

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PHP Weekly. Curated news inspired by pythonweekly.com (http://www.phpweekly.com)

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Wakari and Financial Health Checks (continuum.io)

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Unexpected underscore in git log --graph output (stackoverflow.com)

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Thread profiling in Python (rjpower.org)

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What according to you is the biggest problem with MOOCs? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Book recommendations? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Mod Lang: What are the features of a modern programming language syntax? (http://rdallasgray.github.io)

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Ask HN: would you pay for an email service? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Will Yahoo Try to Get Its “Cool Again” by Doing a Deal for Tumblr? (allthingsd.com)

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The Facebook IPO, One Year Later (online.wsj.com)

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Can Python replace PHP as a server side language? (plus.google.com)

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R 3.0.1 source updated at GitHub (github.com)

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Lulzsec hacker group handed jail sentences (www.bbc.co.uk)

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BBC - Star Wars and Doctor Who fans clash at Norwich convention (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Homeless to hacker: How the Maker Movement changed one man’s life (venturebeat.com)

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Spammer asks us to remove his spam due to bad Google ranking (files.lukasklein.com)

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Show HN: Slapshot — never forget anything (http://slapshotapp.com)

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Why virtual isn’t real to your brain (Michael Abrash) (blogs.valvesoftware.com)

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Aaron Swartz Versus the Bankers (www.freakonomics.com)

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Amazon Elastic Transcoder now supports WebM, HLS, VP8 and several new features (aws.amazon.com)

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Small design and usability details matter a lot more than you think (www.designresourcebox.com)

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Facebook Hashtags: When Monetization Clashes With Branding (danmaz74.me)

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From 17 visits to 32,226 in 24 Hours (www.interactually.com)

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Show HN: CoVim - Collaborative Editing for Vim (github.com)

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You're Hired (And Fired) - The Future Of Work (futureofwork.glider.com)

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RethinkDB Demo (rethinkdb-demo.pogoapp.com)

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First Look: Evernote for Google Glass (blog.evernote.com)

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Improve your drip campaigns with Mixpanel and FullContact (blog.embed.ly)

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Introversion Is Not a Personality Fail (medium.com)

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GitHub: Personal API Tokens (github.com)

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All-caps in legal texts: make it small-caps (ilyabirman.net)

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Dell’s Earnings Fall 79% as Sales of PCs Fade (www.nytimes.com)

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Congress sends Google a list of questions about privacy and Glass (arstechnica.com)

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Ask HN: What happened to the The Matasano Crypto Challenges? (news.ycombinator.com)

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‘Facebook fatigue’ stirs investor concern (www.ft.com)

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Japan's Philanderers Stay Faithful to Their 'Infidelity Phones' (online.wsj.com)

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Designers, Developers, and Unicorns, Oh My! HN Homepage Aftermath (uxdiogenes.com)

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What do we do about bad startup advice? (www.saintsal.com)

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User Experience Trends for Admin Dashboards (speckyboy.com)

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4 Great Indie Games: Pay what you want – in Bitcoins (https://www.thebitcoinbundle.com)

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Hack Day 2013 — Kickstarter (www.kickstarter.com)

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The MAX7219 LED display controller – real or fake? (tronixstuff.wordpress.com)

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Google shuts down Quickoffice R&D offices in Russia and Ukraine (www.ewdn.com)

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Indexing in Cassandra talk (video) (blip.tv)

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Hardcore Apple Fans and Siege Mentality (plus.google.com)

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Google is launching Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab (googleresearch.blogspot.ru)

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[eBook] Build Web Application with Golang (github.com)

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Where are cell phones stolen in SF? (blog.sfgate.com)

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RJMetrics raises $6.25M from Trinity Ventures (blog.rjmetrics.com)

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Turbo C to ANSI C code converter (github.com)

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The Poison of "No" (joshuaziering.com)

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Y Combinator Gains Five New Partners, IPO Experience (ycuniverse.com)

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The biggest oversight of iOS app developers (tapcommerce.tumblr.com)

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After loving to hate Tesla, many scramble to show their love (gigaom.com)

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IsoHunt Will Take DMCA Safe Harbor Fight to the Supreme Court (torrentfreak.com)

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Is Marissa Mayer About to Buy Tumblr for $1 Billion? (mashable.com)

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How a startup evolves into a growth-stage company (www.theglobeandmail.com)

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Quick-and-Dirty ROM Dumping (www.msarnoff.org)

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Ask HN: I have a good idea and a POC... Now what? (news.ycombinator.com)

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A Whirlwind Tour of Datomic Query (blog.datomic.com)

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Ask HN: GitLab vs GitHub (news.ycombinator.com)

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MPs confront Google over attempt to avoid UK tax (www.independent.co.uk)

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What is the modern backup solution for cloud service data (db+files)? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Day 1 of Google I/O Leaves me Perplexed (www.inlined.me)