# Hello

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# Selected Articles

• What really happened aboard Air France 447
  (popularmechanics.com) comments
• Don't Be A Free User
  (blog.pinboard.in) comments
• F#*% passwords
  (me.veekun.com) comments
• How Doctors Die
  (zocalopublicsquare.org) comments
• Mythbusters experiment goes awry, sends cannonball through two houses
  (losangeles.cbslocal.com) comments
• You've Probably Read Enough
  (bennesvig.com) comments
• Thoughts on Python 3
  (lucumr.pocoo.org) comments
• The Rise of Developeronomics
  (forbes.com) comments
• The single most useful Emacs feature
  (stackoverflow.com) comments
• How do you track and decide what topics you want to spend time learning?
  (swanson.github.com) comments
• Google Android: The Accidental Empire
  (nikcub.appspot.com) comments

# Ask HN

• Poll: How much did you earn from your stock options during exit?
• Poll: Do you use an adblocker?
• Tell HN: How to get back at your start-up husband

# Classics

• The Myth of the Immortal Hamburger comments
• The Elves Leave Middle Earth - Sodas Are No Longer Free comments
• Just in case you fall out of a plane without your 'chute comments

# Recent startups/projects/apps launched

• Instant CSS, JS, HTML or DOM documentation comments
• Snake game in a data: URI comments
• Tell HN: You said not to. So I quit my job and started. 5 mos later: OpenPhoto comments
• Show HN: Virtual Angel Investing market comments
• Show HN: Write and deploy your first web app in 5 minutes, no setup needed comments

# Code/Dev

• Announcing Amber.js comments
• Csg.js: Constructive Solid Geometry, with rotatable 3D models comments
• Microsoft team submits Redis patch to enable Windows support comments
• Wordless: stop writing Wordpress themes like it's 1998. comments
• Gow - The lightweight alternative to Cygwin comments
• Ted Dziuba's take on Hubot comments
• Elm: a functional reactive programming language that compiles to JavaScript comments
• Can your REPL do this? comments

# Design

• Mint.com turns 404 ad page into date ad for developer comments
• Apple Never Designed the iPad - They Undesigned it comments
• Knyle Style Sheets comments
• Path menu in pure CSS3 comments
• Good UX in the Wild: Dropbox's attention to detail on their download page comments
• Path(v2) menu already recreated and open sourced. comments
• Appify-UI - Create the simplest possible Mac OS X apps, using HTML5 for the UI comments

# Books

• What is the single most influential book every programmer should read? comments
• Show HN: "Programming is for Anyone" comments

# Videos

• 90 seconds product pitch video in stop motion on a $5 budget comments
• Solar system asteroid discoveries 1980-2011 visualised comments

# Job Threads

• How to Make an Impact During the First Month of Your Startup Job comments
• Top programming languages from jobs advertised on Twitter comments
• Y Combinator Startups: Job Board
• UseTheSource Job Board

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