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31.		No Survivors in Crash of Flight Carrying Polish Leader (nytimes.com)
		33 points by kmod on April 10, 2010 \| 37 comments
		samd on April 10, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: "We live in an amazing world and it's wasted on th... Yes, it is only this latest generation that takes things for granted. I wonder if he wakes up every morning utterly flabbergasted that his home is comfortably warm, he has clean running water, and wild animals haven't tried to kill him in the night. Somehow I doubt it.
		df07 on April 10, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: Why I Never Let Employees Negotiate a Raise I work at Fog Creek, and this is just incorrect. Profit sharing is a simple formula known to everyone in the company, so you can easily figure out how much everyone made in profit sharing at the end of the year. Honestly, I know it sounds too good to be true, but all compensation is completely open and honest.
34.		Check-Ins are Coupons. Game Mechanics are Bullshit. (500hats.typepad.com)
		32 points by zpoley on April 10, 2010 \| 32 comments
35.		Machinarium Rejected From XBLA For Not Being Microsoft Exclusive (xblafans.com)
		32 points by mtinkerhess on April 10, 2010 \| 18 comments
36.		If Silicon Valley Moved to New York (bhargreaves.com)
		32 points by thesyndicate on April 10, 2010 \| 31 comments
		raspie on April 10, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: Cuil relaunches as 'cpedia.' The results are not p... Wrap this up in Adsense and you get Mahalo 2.0
38.		Copyright Law is 300 years old today. (wikipedia.org)
		31 points by 0xdeadc0de on April 10, 2010 \| 5 comments
		tfh on April 10, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: "We live in an amazing world and it's wasted on th... "how quickly the world owes him something that didn't exist ten seconds ago" 99% of the internet users today :)
		alanthonyc on April 10, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: "We live in an amazing world and it's wasted on th... He was joking. He was making people lsugh. There was no other guy on the plane complaining about the internet going down, it was him. http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1885790,00.html
41.		Hey Adobe:Cross compile Objective C to run on Flash Player (arpitonline.com)
		29 points by arpit on April 10, 2010 \| 11 comments
42.		CS5 Countdown is on (adobe.com)
		29 points by GR8K on April 10, 2010 \| 25 comments
43.		Tweetie Developer Loren Brichter blogs on its acquisition by Twitter (atebits.com)
		29 points by sinc on April 10, 2010 \| 2 comments
		globalo on April 10, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: Steve Jobs Says, "Fuck You Ruby Fanbois" can i code in c? yes. do i want to? no.
45.		U.S. Steps Up Probe of Tech Hiring (wsj.com)
		29 points by iamelgringo on April 10, 2010 \| 6 comments
		gaius on April 10, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: James Gosling leaves Oracle I'm guessing you're very young. NT used to be available on x86, MIPS, AXP and PowerPC. It was developed not on x86 but on i960, a RISC processor from Intel. There were plans for a SPARC version too but endianness issues in the HAL meant it was never performant. The only reason Windows only runs on x86/x64 now is that customers weren't interested in it on other platforms. Microsoft really tried to make it cross platform.
47.		IPad Universal Applications and Private APIs (arentz.ca)
		27 points by st3fan on April 10, 2010 \| 4 comments
48.		IPhone PL lockdown (lambda-the-ultimate.org)
		27 points by alrex021 on April 10, 2010 \| 6 comments
49.		Squeezing the life out of your free Google Appengine Quota (anekdotz.com)
		26 points by r11t on April 10, 2010 \| 3 comments
50.		Node.js explained by Ryan Dahl (jsconf.eu)
		26 points by nrub on April 10, 2010 \| 8 comments
		jlouis on April 10, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: Steve Jobs Says, "Fuck You Ruby Fanbois" This is one of Zeds weaker rants. He wants to piss of the Ruby community, yet it is far too obviously filled with bait. Time will show if the fish bites, however. What is really going on is a war fought by proxy on the iPhone. The combatants are Adobe wanting to commoditize all platforms for their flash apps and Apple, who wants to keep the control of their platform. Ruby, Lisp (any), Haskell, Python, and Lua are not participants in the war, yet they got hit by the nuclear fallout. The interesting question is how much Apple needs to do to piss off developers - which they need in their eco-system. While other platforms lags somewhat behind the iPhone, there is no doubt that the scales can tip quickly. I may be wrong, but I think rather few programmers make their pay from iPhone revenue streams.
52.		Google accused of YouTube ‘free ride’ (ft.com)
		26 points by swombat on April 10, 2010 \| 36 comments
		tptacek on April 10, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: Steve Jobs Says, "Fuck You Ruby Fanbois" "getting up and running with Ruby on Rails on a Mac takes a metric fuck ton of ass raping" If by that colorful phrase you mean, "gem install rails". I'm pretty sure we ship a Rails product, and I'm pretty sure that we only issue people Macbooks running OSX, and I'm pretty sure he's wrong about that.
54.		Matt Blaze on Applied Cryptography, 15 years later (crypto.com)
		25 points by alterego on April 10, 2010 \| 7 comments
55.		Paid Content: the New Paid Link (seobook.com)
		24 points by tortilla on April 10, 2010 \| 1 comment
		_delirium on April 10, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: "We live in an amazing world and it's wasted on th... If you ask immigrants who've lived in the U.S. ~10 years or so about the pros/cons of it, though, you get much more mixed answers. Some are still uniformly positive about how much better the U.S. is than where they came from, but many aren't. And sometimes it just seems sort of incomparable. My mom grew up in a rural village of about 30 families in Greece in the 1950s that had no electricity, running water, TVs, etc. She objectively realizes it was a "deprived" childhood by modern standards, but she doesn't subjectively remember it being bad at all. It's just what life was like: you got water from the well, and it was fine, because that's what everyone does, and there was no sense that you were a poor person for not having running water, because nobody had running water, not in your village or in the neighboring villages. And subjectively she even thinks some things were better, like the community and social support you get from a close-knit group of 30 families who all know each other / bake bread at the community oven together / etc. I doubt she would go back to that lifestyle today given the choice, but she doesn't have an "omg that sucked, I'm so glad I'm now in the U.S. in a suburban home" view of it either.
		plinkplonk on April 10, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: Cuil relaunches as 'cpedia.' The results are not p... "If cuil were a bootstrapped one-person operation it would be very easy to cut the cord and move on to something else." Or actually get it to work,like DuckDuckGo. One man operation. Impressive results. Contrasting DuckDuckGo and Cuil is enlightening in all kinds of ways.
		bitdiddle on April 10, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: James Gosling leaves Oracle No surprise here. It's too bad the IBM/Sun talks broke down, I think it would have been a much better marriage.
59.		Apple removes Google branding from iPhone OS 4 search (appleinsider.com)
		24 points by stanleydrew on April 10, 2010 \| 17 comments
		meroliph on April 10, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: Minister thinks IP address is an "Intellectual Pro... As mentioned on Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/bo623/i_wrote_to_...), this may likely be a screw-up by a secretary, as the letter does make sense aside from this problem.
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