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1.		How Tim Schafer Broke Into the Game Industry: A Legendary Cover Letter (doublefine.com)
		207 points by zach on Sept 29, 2009 \| 14 comments
2.		Teaching Linear Algebra (bentilly.blogspot.com)
		208 points by btilly on Sept 29, 2009 \| 59 comments
3.		How Races and Religions Match in Online Dating (okcupid.com)
		160 points by noodle on Sept 29, 2009 \| 94 comments
4.		The Dropbox iPhone App is Out (getdropbox.com)
		154 points by jmonegro on Sept 29, 2009 \| 36 comments
5.		The Most Important Writing Lesson I Ever Learned (stevenpressfield.com)
		130 points by talison on Sept 29, 2009 \| 62 comments
6.		What to do when an $8 million gorilla launches 3 weeks before you (drstarcat.com)
		95 points by szopa on Sept 29, 2009 \| 60 comments
		chaosmachine on Sept 29, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: Palm apologizes to JWZ "We are sorry that Jamie feels the way he does..." Classic non-apology.
8.		Palm apologizes to JWZ (galbraiths.org)
		73 points by jbellis on Sept 29, 2009 \| 28 comments
9.		If Craigslist cost $1 (sethgodin.typepad.com)
		69 points by bdfh42 on Sept 29, 2009 \| 68 comments
10.		1984 ad remade..new Dictator: Steve Jobs (techcrunch.com)
		64 points by prabodh on Sept 29, 2009 \| 12 comments
11.		You're our customer. We Hate You (designbygravity.wordpress.com)
		59 points by cschanck on Sept 29, 2009 \| 39 comments
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13.		What to know before debating type systems (pphsg.org)
		55 points by brooksbp on Sept 29, 2009 \| 33 comments
14.		Linux kernel swear counts per version (vidarholen.net)
		55 points by jacquesm on Sept 29, 2009 \| 13 comments
		tghw on Sept 29, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: If Craigslist cost $1 eBay is a great example of how a reputation system does not curb bogus, repetitive listings, or fraud for that matter.
16.		Complete Set of Founder Friendly Legal Docs (thefunded.com)
		51 points by sachinag on Sept 29, 2009 \| 10 comments
		protomyth on Sept 29, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: Steve Ballmer: Chrome And Safari Are Rounding Erro... They got punished for making deals that locked Netscape out of the market by making OEM's pay more for including competitors products.
18.		Steve Ballmer: Chrome And Safari Are Rounding Errors (techcrunch.com)
		53 points by dwynings on Sept 29, 2009 \| 59 comments
19.		Gmail Ran out of space (daggle.com)
		49 points by prabodh on Sept 29, 2009 \| 52 comments
		nir on Sept 29, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: If Craigslist cost $1 What if publishing a blog post cost $1? Would people spend more time thinking them through?
21.		Why is DropBox Thriving? (markevanstech.com)
		47 points by dcancel on Sept 29, 2009 \| 29 comments
22.		Bletchley Park to receive significant funding (bbc.co.uk)
		47 points by jgrahamc on Sept 29, 2009 \| 8 comments
23.		Statistics vs. Machine Learning, fight (anyall.org)
		46 points by zjj on Sept 29, 2009 \| 4 comments
24.		Beautiful Minds: Relations between genius, creativeness and mental illness (spacecollective.org)
		43 points by fogus on Sept 29, 2009 \| 23 comments
25.		Your Startup Sucks (startupswami.com)
		41 points by mdouglas on Sept 29, 2009 \| 8 comments
26.		Poll: How often do you get depressed?
		40 points by BigCanOfTuna on Sept 29, 2009 \| 35 comments
		edw519 on Sept 29, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: The Most Important Writing Lesson I Ever Learned Hacker's Corollary: "The Most Important Programming Lesson I Ever Learned" Nobody wants to run your shit. Make it simple. Make it easy. Make it fun (to the extent that you can). Make it intuitive. Make it do exactly what needs to be done. Your user is too busy for anything else.
28.		Memcached: More Cache = Less Cash (rackspacecloud.com)
		38 points by safun on Sept 29, 2009 \| 4 comments
29.		Melbourne Australia Hackernews/YC Meetup, this Sun 4th Oct (facebook.com)
		38 points by tomhoward on Sept 29, 2009 \| 27 comments
		mdasen on Sept 29, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: Why is DropBox Thriving? It's thriving because it just works. Works when you're offline. Works if you try to save conflicting copies of a file. Works if you accidentally delete a file. Works if you need to retrieve an old version of a file. Works if your internet connection is spotty. Rather than punting on the hard issues and creating another WebDAV-like service, they actually created something that just works.
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