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1.Introducing Atlas: A Visual Development Tool for Creating Web Apps (carsonified.com)
115 points by sant0sk1 on Oct 7, 2009 | 63 comments
2.We Just Undid Three Months of Dev work. Here's What We Learned. (scoutapp.com)
98 points by acl on Oct 7, 2009 | 30 comments
3.Two common mistakes when using databases (inria.fr)
96 points by Rexxar on Oct 7, 2009 | 14 comments
4.Google's new culture: Perks are out. Being grateful you have a job is in (allthingsd.com)
90 points by pakafka on Oct 7, 2009 | 92 comments
5.My GMail password scares me with its power (benmetcalfe.com)
86 points by pospischil on Oct 7, 2009 | 45 comments
πŸ“š. Strategy Letter II: Chicken and Egg Problems (joelonsoftware.com)
11 min read | by Joel Spolsky | saved 161 days ago | archive
6.JDK7 to have escape analysis on by default...also back ported to JDK6 (java.net)
84 points by suprgeek on Oct 7, 2009 | 21 comments
7.What happened to Argentina? (nytimes.com)
84 points by jseliger on Oct 7, 2009 | 59 comments
8.What's the Secret Success of Mint.com? The Real Numbers... (christine.net)
76 points by kakooljay on Oct 7, 2009 | 31 comments
9.The myth of the page fold: evidence from user testing (cxpartners.co.uk)
69 points by jmorin007 on Oct 7, 2009 | 31 comments
10.Hal Finney diagnosed with ALS. Wants to keep coding open source when paralyzed. (lesswrong.com)
67 points by Eliezer on Oct 7, 2009 | 12 comments
πŸ“š. OpenAI Is Building a Banker (archive.ph)
19 min read | by Matt Levine | saved 43 days ago | archive
11.JWZ and the Palm App Catalog, Part II (jwz.livejournal.com)
64 points by mosburger on Oct 7, 2009 | 47 comments
12.* is Unix (jacobian.org)
62 points by jacobian on Oct 7, 2009 | 48 comments
13.RethinkDB looking for a technical cofounder (defmacro.org)
61 points by andreyf on Oct 7, 2009 | 54 comments
14.Putting your life on the line for a 50% chance to fail (drstarcat.com)
60 points by grosales on Oct 7, 2009 | 26 comments
15.IPhone App Store Developers Aren't Getting Rich (newsweek.com)
59 points by gcheong on Oct 7, 2009 | 65 comments
πŸ“š. β€˜Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse (theguardian.com)
8 min read | by Damian Carrington | saved 210 days ago | 31% read | archive
16.FlightCaster (YC S09) predicts future of development (sdtimes.com)
57 points by yarapavan on Oct 7, 2009 | 20 comments
17.Cray - A Clojure Ray Tracer (code.google.com)
53 points by fogus on Oct 7, 2009 | 15 comments
18.What Makes Us Happy (theatlantic.com)
49 points by fogus on Oct 7, 2009 | 13 comments
19.A Conversation with Sergey Brin (techcrunch.com)
47 points by bastian on Oct 7, 2009 | 18 comments
20.Classic review of "The Story of Ping" (amazon.com)
45 points by btilly on Oct 7, 2009 | 8 comments
πŸ“š. The Economics of Decoupling (forourposterity.com)
11 min read | by Leopold Aschenbrenner | saved 210 days ago | archive
21.Amazon Kindle now available outside US, plus price drop (amazon.com)
45 points by goodside on Oct 7, 2009 | 44 comments
22.Google changes logo - traffic to our site spikes
44 points by chexov on Oct 7, 2009 | 21 comments
23.C:\ONGRTLNS.OSX (daringfireball.net)
41 points by gthank on Oct 7, 2009 | 26 comments
24.How We Jumped 50 Places in the iPhone App Store - for Free (gymfu.com)
38 points by JofArnold on Oct 7, 2009 | 13 comments
25.Rich Hickey and Brian Beckman - Inside Clojure (54 minute video interview) (msdn.com)
37 points by berrow on Oct 7, 2009 | 4 comments
πŸ“š. Wiz’s $32B GTM Playbook: Unpacking the Formula (Part I) (cybersecuritypulse.net)
8 min read | by Darwin Salazar | saved 329 days ago | archive
26.Clojure, Parallelism, and Genetic Algorithms (ethanjfast.com)
36 points by unignorant on Oct 7, 2009 | 2 comments
27.Mac OS X’s Hidden Single-Application Mode (tidbits.com)
35 points by e1ven on Oct 7, 2009 | 11 comments
28.Announcing GWT 2.0 Milestone 1 (groups.google.com)
35 points by silkodyssey on Oct 7, 2009 | 32 comments
29.Java, OCaml, and F# (csail.mit.edu)
34 points by yarapavan on Oct 7, 2009 | 8 comments
30.The 'Veritas' About Harvard (chronicle.com)
32 points by yarapavan on Oct 7, 2009 | 48 comments
πŸ“š. The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack (diff.substack.com)
1 min read | by Byrne Hobart | saved 221 days ago | archive

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