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Daily Hacker News for 2011-07-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 30, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Apple now holding more cash than USA
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• Simpson's paradox
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• Vim & Python: Making yourself at home
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• "SQLite is not designed to replace Oracle. It is designed to replace fopen()."
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• How to work with me - a no BS approach
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• Researchers Expose Cunning Online Tracking Service That Can’t Be Dodged
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• Modern Civil Disobedience - Tim DeChristopher
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• Free online version of Stanford's Fall 2011 Intro to AI course
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• How The Hell Is This My Fault?
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• The Batman Equation
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-07-29

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 29, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Putting "Search" into Google yields a surprising result
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• The Secret Ingredient In Your Orange Juice
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• Auditor's response to "Our security auditor is an idiot" (Update 3)
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• Airbnb Victim Speaks Again: Homeless, Scared And Angry
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• Airbnb Nightmare: No End In Sight
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• Vandalised home puts pressure on Airbnb
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• Why my Mom Bought an Android, Returned It, and Got an iPhone
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• Poll: What should be done about the endless repetition of stories?
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• Airbnb Competitor Checks IDs: 'We Don't Want to Trade Security for Volume'
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• Product Designer needed as a Co-Founder - Fast-Growing mCommerce startup
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-07-28

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 28, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• LulzSec's 'Topiary' arrested
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• LevelDB: A Fast Persistent Key-Value Store
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• Hacker News Fires Steve Yegge
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• On Safety: A Word From Airbnb
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• Page Speed Service
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• Could You Modify It ‘To Stop Students From Becoming This Advanced?’
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• Java 7 is now available
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• Spotify Sued For Patent Infringement Just Weeks After Entering US Market
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• The Supreme Court Should Invalidate Software Patents
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• Steve Jobs Sometimes Lies to You
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-07-27

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 27, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• When you're in a team that I lead, there are 3 things that I'd like to ask you
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• Ask Patrick McKenzie (patio11) anything
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• Understanding Linux CPU Load - when should you be worried?
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• Call Someone Who Cares
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• When Patents Attack
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• This is why your newspaper is dying
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• Violated: A traveler’s lost faith, a difficult lesson learned
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• Steve Yegge quits Google in the middle of his speech [OSCON Data 2011]
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• Judge Finds Apple in Violation of HTC's Newly Acquired Patents
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• The Moment Of Truth For AirBnB As User’s Home Is Utterly Trashed
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-07-26

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 26, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Guido van Rossum: Before Python
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• 50 Google +1s on sale at SEO shop for $9.99
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• Monroe or Einstein? Instant eyesight check.
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• Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?
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• Andy Rutledge Redesigns NYTimes.com
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• NYT Skimmer
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• Webdesigners: please make text readable
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• John Resig uses this
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• What happened to all the female developers?
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• Humble Bundle #3 is Live
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-07-25

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 25, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• When operating "at web scale", users often simply don't have "real names"
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• Accidental Genius: How To Think
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• A note to Google recruiters (and on Google hiring practices)
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• A web designer with an attitude (he did his site while drunk)
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• Twice the height of the Empire State - massive solar tower for AZ
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• Who's your SSH buddy?
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• WebMynd is doubling revenue every 3 months, and the team every 6. Join us.
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• It Flies: Da Vinci's Dream Comes True
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• Aaron Swartz v. United States
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• Veteran developer Steve Lacey (Google, Microsoft) Killed in Auto Accident
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-07-24

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 24, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• What Happened to the Future?
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• The Acceleration of Addictiveness vs Willpower, Productivity, and Flow
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• NASA finds water reservoir equivalent to 140 trillion times the world's oceans
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• Emacs follow-mode
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• Google Plus Deleting Accounts En Masse: No Clear Answers
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• Radio Shack to start stocking Arduino, Other Goodies
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• NoSQL is What?
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• Octopress - A blogging framework for hackers
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• I’ve been suspended from Google+
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• Google Plus: Tagging automatically shares private photos
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-07-23

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 23, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Explosion in central Oslo
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• What everyone should know about the human eye
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• On Succeeding Steve Jobs
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• Android account passwords are stored on disk in plain text
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• Intellectual Ventures on This American Life
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• Apple MacBooks Can Be Hacked Through The Battery
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• The Little Manual of API Design
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• Our security auditor is an idiot. How do I give him the information he wants?
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• Sony's Captcha. View source to see why they don't "get" security
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• Infinite Mario in HTML5
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-07-22

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 22, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Thousands of scientific papers uploaded to The Pirate Bay
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• US debt visualized
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• Greece defaults
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• NYU Prof Vows Never to Probe Cheating Again—and Faces a Backlash
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• Linux 3.0 release
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• EBay Patents 10-Click Checkout
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• Chosen: A javascript plug-in that makes long select boxes user-friendly.
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• NASA's Successful Quantifying of Comedy Timing (By Penn Jillette and Teller)
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• The Brilliance of Dwarf Fortress
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• Google Deletes Last 7 Years Of User's Digital Life, Shrugs
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-07-21

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 21, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• 135TB for $7,384 - Backblaze Pod 2.0
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• Donut math - How donut.c works
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• Why I Hate Frameworks
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• ClojureScript
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• Learn JavaScript
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• Anonymous & Lulz Security Statement to the FBI
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• How I Raised $350k as a Solo Founder using these 4 Email Templates
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• A pound of flesh: how Cisco's "unmitigated gall" derailed one man's life
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• 33GB of public domain JSTOR articles, and a manifesto
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• Google Tried To Buy Color For $200 Million. Color Said No.
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-07-20

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 20, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Show HN: I made a Web-based Todo App - used: CSS3 3D transforms, Node.js, love
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• Every programmer should read the source to abort() at some point in their life.
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• Remove any Site From Google (even if you don't control it)
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• Fake apple stores
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• OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store
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• John Siracusa's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Review
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• Tilt: Visualize your web page's DOM in 3D
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• Xcode 4.1 now available free from the Mac App Store
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• WebPutty: CSS editing goes "boink"
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• Google Labs Winding Down
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-07-19

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 19, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Use Google+ to Improve Your UI
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• You are not running out of time
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• LulzSec Redirects ‘The Sun’ Homepage To Fake Murdoch Death Story
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• Chain World: a game that exists on a unique USB flash drive
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• Life lessons learned in travelling the world for 8 years straight
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• Why doesn't every company buy developers the best hardware?
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• If Dropbox Used GitHub’s Pricing Plan
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• Google+ for iOS is out
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• Aaronsw indicted for hacking MIT network to download millions of JSTOR docs
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• ZeroCater seeking Foodie Paratroopers
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-07-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 18, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Why Quora is in trouble
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• Build your own operating system
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• Firebug lead developer now working on Web dev tools at Google
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• When free markets make it worse: new TLDs
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• Nginx established as a company
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• Tame.JS: Flow-control by the makers of OkCupid.com
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• 9.2% Unemployment? Blame Microsoft.
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• Apple deals massive patent blow to HTC, Android in serious trouble
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• Netflix for baby clothes
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• Disqus (SF) is seeking an inhouse technical recruiter to expand product team
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-07-17

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 17, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Brubeck: A new Python web framework running on mongrel2
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• The Growing Divide Between Silicon Valley And Unemployed America
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• Nginx JSON hacks
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• Skeleton: A Beautiful Boilerplate for Responsive, Mobile-Friendly Development
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• Why My Father Hated India
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• Estimate your English vocabulary size
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• Plan9 has been forked: 9front
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• Refuse to be terrorized (Bruce Schneier)
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• Bottle: Single-File Python Web Framework
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• Why I will never pursue cheating again
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-07-16

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 16, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The Massive Mystery In Google's Finances
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• Dealing with Timezones in Python
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• Italy and the euro: On the edge
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• Founder Stories Volume 01: Slicehost
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• PHP to deprecate MySQL extension
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• How to Cure Deep Procrastination
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• IOS Integration Testing by Square
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• "Very bold or very dumb": data caps don't apply to ISP's own movie service
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• Google: The Beginning
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• The FBI Had No Warrant for the Raid on Instapaper, Pinboard, et al.
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-07-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 15, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How Stuxnet was deciphered
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• Design patterns explained in Javascript
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• Github is Your New Resume
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• Poll: How much do you make as a programmer?
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• Old TechCrunch + really fast, clean, customizable layouts
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• Linus Torvalds proposes a change to the Git commit object format
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• Co-Founder Wanted - Mobile Commerce YC Startup with Paying Customers
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• Why we gave up web design after 10 successful years to move to products
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• Is There Anything Good About Men?
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• Code.Google.com now supports git
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-07-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 14, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• VMWare Screw Customers
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• The Problem With Silicon Valley Is Itself
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• You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss
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• Lesser known cool features of HTML5
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• What G+ is really about (pst it's not social)
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• Spotify launches in the US
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• What Google's Famous Cafeterias Can Teach Us About Health
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• The Problem with the iPhone's Home Button
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• Introducing BrowserID: A better way to sign in
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• S2011 Startup ISO Code-MacGyver
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-07-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 13, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Dyslexie: A typeface for dyslexics
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• Floppy Disks: It’s Too Late
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• How not to design a CAPTCHA
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• Google+ can now hide your gender "in response to user feedback"
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• Why I left Google. What happened to my book. What I work on at Facebook.
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• A lesson on the importance of encouraging your children with their projects
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• Man counterhacks paypal phisher, deletes data, warns other victims via phone
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• PuTTY 0.61 released
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• Nginx doesn't suck at SSL after all
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• Comcast cuts off customer for going over 250GB of legitimate use
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-07-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 12, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Erlang creator on how to get started and learning to program
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• Own Your Identity
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• Edward Tufte's "Slopegraphs"
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• My experiences as a Recruiter on Hacker News
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• The fanless spinning heatsink: more efficient, and immune to dust and detritus
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• Bored People Quit
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• Rapid DHCP: Or, how do Macs get on the network so fast?
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• Instantly Add Chat To Hacker News
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• Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku
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• YC S11 Startup Solving the Biggest Challenges in Mobile Looking for 1st Employee
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-07-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 11, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Google+'s Real Goal is Not to Kill Facebook, but to Force it to Open
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• Awesome Python and django related projects
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• So you want to write a fast Python?
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• Ex-Wave, Ex-Plus engineer on Google Plus
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• Noah Kagan and the Faceless Bitch slide
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• CSS Lint is harmful
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• Firefox 8 is 20% faster than Firefox 5, matches Chrome 14
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• GoDaddy SSL Cert Scam
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• DOJ: We can force you to decrypt that laptop
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• Anonymous hacks Booz Allen Hamilton, US military contractor, 90k logins dumped
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-07-10

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 10, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Steve Jobs isn’t our Dad
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• Stanford's CS 101 course uses Javascript
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• Rule of Consulting: You can’t stop people from sticking beans up their nose
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• China: High GDP, 64 million empty apartments.
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• "Yes, but what are your credentials, Mr Stross?"
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• Three Little Circles
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• Go Rocks - How Can We Avoid Something This Bad In The Future?
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• What technologies are under your site
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• Console.fm - New social music site
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• The Node Beginner Book, an introduction to Node.js, is now complete
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-07-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 09, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• RIAA Accounting: How To Sell 1 Million Albums And Still Owe $500,000
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• Treating Students as Gifted Yields Impressive Academic Results, Study Finds
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• Cobra effect
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• Google Singleton Detector
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• FuzzyWuzzy: Fuzzy String Matching in Python
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• EFF: forced disclosure of encryption password violates 5th Amendment
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• Python and the Principle of Least Astonishment
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• Why shuttle Atlantis will not be left attached to the ISS
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• 30kloc and $0 revenue. Lessons from my failed startup (& code release)
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• Love startups but not a developer? We need entry level biz dev hustlers.
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-07-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 08, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• My Summer at an Indian Call Center
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• A Walk in the Woods with Mark Zuckerberg
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• XKCD's Randall Munroe on Google+ requiring your gender to be public
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• Oh Yes You Can Use Regexes to Parse HTML
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• Interesting C code
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• Live coverage of the last Shuttle launch (STS-135, Atlantis)
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• Courtney Love does the math (2000)
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• Create a Robot Image from any text string
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• Warren Buffett: I could end the deficit in 5 minutes.
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• How Running A Business Changes The Way You Think
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-07-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 07, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Why scientific programming does not compute
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• Users of my iOS Game Teach Me a Lesson MIT Didn’t
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• Fast-growing (2MM monthly uniques) YC S11 startup looking for 1st employee
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• User testing in the wild: he has never used a computer
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• Companies that make money by distributing misleading versions of VLC
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• Judge Denies Apple Request To Stop Amazon From Using "App Store"
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• Microsoft’s Android Shakedown
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• Unannounced Facebook feature uncovered
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• ITerm2 1.0 Released
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• Why the #AskObama tweet was garbled on screen
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-07-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 06, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The Broken Promises of MRI/REE/YARV
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• All NeXT Inc.'s Plant Lacks Is Orders (1990)
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• Why I read Hacker News even though I understand very little of it
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• Internet predictions from 1982
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• Google+ is Awesome. Facebook Maimed, Twitter Mortally Wounded?
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• My legitimate co.cc site was deleted from Google, what do I do?
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• JQuery 1.6.2 syntax error? You may be the victim of SEO.
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• Hack Hardware with inPulse (YC W11) - Fall intern
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• Facebook's Three New Products
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• MySpace, Skype announce partnership (2007)
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-07-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 05, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Question for PG/HN: Where do you think we stand on your list of "ideas"?
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• This is why memory fragmentation is bad
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• Advanced Javascript tips and tricks
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• MIT 6.006: Algorithms in Python
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• Facebook blocks Google Chrome extension for exporting friends
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• Cool notification messages with CSS3 & Jquery
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• US claims all .com and .net websites are in its jurisdiction
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• Twitter acquires BackType (YC S08)
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• Clojure on Heroku
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• Google to Retire Blogger & Picasa Brands in Google+ Push
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-07-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 04, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Once Greece goes...
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• What every programmer should know about time
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• Illustrated Calculus Textbook
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• Google just launched prizes.org
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• Google made my son cry
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• Very clever story telling using HTML and Javascript...
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• Twitter Shifting More Code to JVM, Citing Performance and Encapsulation
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• The Capacitive Button Cult Must Be Stopped
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• Hover.com: we store & email passwords in plaintext for usability
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• Google Loses Access to Twitter Stream, Suspends Realtime Search
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-07-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 03, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Pure CSS GUI icons (experimental)
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• Hemingway, Hounded by the Feds
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• The 44 Chromosome Man
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• Tom Anderson: Google+ makes Google a better, more integrated set of services
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• Web Intents - the future of web apps
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• Introduction to Computer Science with Python [pdf]
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• Learn C The Hard Way
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• TrueCrypt Discrepancy
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• Thorium nuclear reactors: a possible solution of the energy crisis? (video)
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• Nobody Understands REST or HTTP
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-07-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 02, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Why yo momma won’t use Google+ (and why that thrills me to no end)
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• Lambdas in C
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• Failure: Building a web app that makes $50/month
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• Zynga Files to Raise $1 Billion via IPO
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• Backbone.js 0.5.0 Released (with pushState)
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• Faster JavaScript parsing
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• Google bid pi billion dollars for Nortel patents (and lost)
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• CSS3 Isometric text
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• Why I'm Rooting For Google+
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• Dropbox TOS Includes Broad Copyright License
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-07-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 01, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Restoring a Photograph from the 1870s
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• The One Google Plus Feature Facebook Should Fear
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• Those 500K Bitcoins that caused the flash crash weren't real
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• A preview of Gmail’s new look
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• How To Safely Store A Password
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• Time to Close the Security Theater
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• Sublime Text 2: Beta
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• Google Calendar Redesign: It's Goddamn Terrible
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• Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (July 2011)
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• Andy Herzfield tells about the team behind Google+ Circles
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-06-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 30, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Why is European broadband faster and cheaper? Blame the government
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• Sal Khan has started videos about Python
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• The Tale of OpenGL vs. Direct3D
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• AWS drops bandwidth pricing
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• Robert Morris, Pioneer in Computer Security, Dies at 78
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• IBM develops 'instantaneous' memory, 100x faster than flash
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• Calling Bullshit on Unpaid Interships
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• How to improve your programming skills
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• Open letter to BlackBerry bosses: Senior RIM exec tells all as company crumbles
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• Please stop asking how to find a technical co-founder.
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