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Stories from December 29, 2008
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1.Joel on Software: The new Fog Creek Office (joelonsoftware.com)
110 points by twampss on Dec 29, 2008 | 85 comments
2.My new year's resolution is to email my 15 months old son daily
71 points by mad44 on Dec 29, 2008 | 37 comments
3.Startup now 100% on AWS (they're using AMQP, PostgreSQL, pgpool-II and Rails) (aws.typepad.com)
58 points by spif on Dec 29, 2008 | 28 comments
4.Debunking Daniel Tammet (infopractical.livejournal.com)
50 points by byrneseyeview on Dec 29, 2008 | 10 comments
5.NYC Hacker Collective: Revenge of the Nerds (nytimes.com)
48 points by fleaflicker on Dec 29, 2008 | 19 comments
6.Cloth Physics (custom-logic.com)
37 points by epi0Bauqu on Dec 29, 2008 | 6 comments
7.Ask HN: New Years Resolution(s)?
37 points by mikeyur on Dec 29, 2008 | 69 comments
8.Cuil on Business Week list of most successful companies of 2008 (techcrunch.com)
35 points by rokhayakebe on Dec 29, 2008 | 25 comments
9.10,000 hours (sethgodin.typepad.com)
35 points by bdfh42 on Dec 29, 2008 | 28 comments
10.Freemium business model case study: AdultFriendFinder ARPU, churn, and conversion rates (andrewchenblog.com)
34 points by dcurtis on Dec 29, 2008 | 1 comment
11.Best Data Visualization Projects of the Year (flowingdata.com)
33 points by prakash on Dec 29, 2008 | 4 comments
12.Indie Game Developer does 100 day protest Nintendo (bobsgame.com)
31 points by jflowers45 on Dec 29, 2008 | 17 comments
13.Hindley-Milner type inference algorithim, explained (codecommit.com)
28 points by jcapote on Dec 29, 2008 | 16 comments
14.The same guy who predicted collapse of USSR, is predicting the collapse of U.S. (wsj.com)
28 points by vaksel on Dec 29, 2008 | 58 comments
15.Global warming: Why the world has taken to chilies (economist.com)
24 points by robg on Dec 29, 2008 | 12 comments
16.Don’t be a Facebook whore (cringely.com)
24 points by astrec on Dec 29, 2008 | 7 comments
17.The behavioural science of supermarkets (economist.com)
24 points by robg on Dec 29, 2008 | 8 comments
18.Never Too Late To Learn An Instrument (npr.org)
23 points by tortilla on Dec 29, 2008 | 35 comments
19.Hello world in Kawa Scheme for Android (bothner.com)
22 points by brlewis on Dec 29, 2008 | 6 comments
20.Programming: Love It or Leave It (codinghorror.com)
21 points by bdfh42 on Dec 29, 2008 | 5 comments
21.2008 In Review - What Happened with Programming Languages? (lambda-the-ultimate.org)
21 points by davidw on Dec 29, 2008 | 1 comment
22.Becoming a renewable energy engineer (pingswept.org)
20 points by pingswept on Dec 29, 2008 | 8 comments
23.Getting started with Lisp. (jakevoytko.com)
20 points by socratees on Dec 29, 2008 | 1 comment
24.The Crunchies 2008: Vote (techcrunch.com)
19 points by johns on Dec 29, 2008 | 18 comments
25.The Book Of Ruby (sapphiresteel.com)
19 points by Anon84 on Dec 29, 2008 | 3 comments
26.How and why web developers should file bug reports and test browser nightlies (ejohn.org)
19 points by rickharrison on Dec 29, 2008 | 4 comments
27.How to Organize a Database Table’s Keys for Scalability (maxindelicato.com)
18 points by astrec on Dec 29, 2008 | 2 comments
28.Triumph of Nerds: Steve Jobs & Bill Gates (1 of 3) (dailymotion.com)
17 points by acangiano on Dec 29, 2008 | 12 comments
29.Ask HN: Alan Kay or DHH?
16 points by jhancock on Dec 29, 2008 | 57 comments
30.Should the Obama Generation Drop Out? (nytimes.com)
17 points by tokenadult on Dec 29, 2008 | 20 comments

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