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1.How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary (mines.edu)
40 points by Keios on Aug 15, 2007 | 10 comments
2.Why Paul? Why Did You Change It? (About Hacker News) (centernetworks.com)
37 points by transburgh on Aug 15, 2007 | 45 comments
3.Does your project need a Cool Cam? (worsethanfailure.com)
31 points by dood on Aug 15, 2007 | 8 comments
4.Matt Maroon: Demo Day (mattmaroon.com)
25 points by toffer on Aug 15, 2007 | 14 comments
5.Coding Horror: Discipline Makes Strong Developers (codinghorror.com)
26 points by toffer on Aug 15, 2007 | 1 comment
6."Why Should Paul Graham Have All the Fun?" (Perry Metzger's talk at Lisp NYC: video & slides) (lispnyc.org)
19 points by dpapathanasiou on Aug 15, 2007 | 4 comments
7.The #1 reason excuse for programmers legitimately slacking off (not if you use Lisp ;) (xkcd.com)
17 points by nickb on Aug 15, 2007 | 3 comments
8.Wozniak's New Goal is Efficient Housing (ecnmag.com)
15 points by farmer on Aug 15, 2007 | 1 comment
9.Uses of "* is the new *" in 2005 represented graphically (thediagram.com)
13 points by _david on Aug 15, 2007 | 3 comments
10.Squirrels wield a hot, secret weapon (newscientist.com)
12 points by farmer on Aug 15, 2007 | 3 comments
11.How to Give a Kick Ass Presentation (pubcon.com)
12 points by nreece on Aug 15, 2007 | 1 comment
12.PlentyOfFish Architecture (highscalability.com)
12 points by luccastera on Aug 15, 2007
13.JavaScript:The World's Most Misunderstood Programming Language (crockford.com)
13 points by mk on Aug 15, 2007 | 3 comments
14.Scott Adams' startup idea: Hole Digger (dilbertblog.typepad.com)
12 points by andreyf on Aug 15, 2007 | 5 comments
15.Why do most social networks make it so hard to move from viewing one friend to the next? (subtraction.com)
10 points by _david on Aug 15, 2007 | 2 comments
16.This could be your fate if you don't do a startup (valleywag.com)
11 points by menloparkbum on Aug 15, 2007 | 7 comments
17.Can software start-ups succeed with non-programmer founder(s)?
11 points by NoMoreSnow on Aug 15, 2007 | 17 comments
18.Blueprint is a CSS framework (bjorkoy.com)
9 points by webology on Aug 15, 2007 | 4 comments
19.Silphium: Did Greek science die out because their elite discovered The Pill? (wikipedia.org)
10 points by byrneseyeview on Aug 15, 2007 | 1 comment
20.A whole lotta Emacs Lisp files (sachachua.com)
10 points by mk on Aug 15, 2007 | 1 comment
21.Google and Microsoft Look to Change Health Care (nytimes.com)
9 points by jcwentz on Aug 15, 2007 | 3 comments
22.Ultrafast quantum computer uses optically controlled electrons (physorg.com)
9 points by mk on Aug 15, 2007 | 1 comment
23.PayPal fees for dummies (micropledge.com)
9 points by benhoyt on Aug 15, 2007
24.BarCampBlock in Palo Alto - this weekend - anyone attending? (barcamp.org)
9 points by RyanGWU82 on Aug 15, 2007 | 6 comments
25.20+ Dating Sites For Geeks and Freaks (mashable.com)
8 points by horatio05 on Aug 15, 2007 | 2 comments
26."Don't use web standards because Jeffrey Zeldman told you to," Blueprint's class names are OK (jeffcroft.com)
8 points by _david on Aug 15, 2007 | 1 comment
27.Linden Lab's CFO explains how the economy works in the virtual community. (technologyreview.com)
7 points by ivankirigin on Aug 15, 2007
28.CIA, Vatican busted for Wikipedia edits (bbc.co.uk)
5 points by farmer on Aug 15, 2007 | 2 comments
29.Discussion about the new voting system
6 points by mcxx on Aug 15, 2007 | 4 comments
30.DIY Drones: Chris Anderson's Ning Social Network for building UAVs (diydrones.com)
6 points by ivankirigin on Aug 15, 2007

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