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1.		My facebook no longer fits - Richard Hammond (mirror.co.uk)
		31 points by nickb on Sept 30, 2007 \| 20 comments
		pg on Sept 30, 2007 \| parent \| context \| on: Ask YC: What would the salary range be for program... For the very earliest employees in a startup, you should pay little more than living expenses in salary, because you only want people who want mostly equity. How much equity to give them is always a negotiation. The underlying principles are described here: http://paulgraham.com/equity.html
		nickb on Sept 30, 2007 \| parent \| context \| on: Ask YC Hackers: What's the best text for learning ... I've asked THE JS MAN himself, Doug Crockford of Yahoo!, what the best book on JS is and he says its: JavaScript: The Definitive Guide (5th Edition) by David Flanagan (edition is important... 4th one is not that good). Doug says a bit more about the lack of any good JS books: "Bad Books Nearly all of the books about JavaScript are quite awful. They contain errors, poor examples, and promote bad practices. Important features of the language are often explained poorly, or left out entirely. I have reviewed dozens of JavaScript books, and I can only recommend one: JavaScript: The Definitive Guide (5th Edition) by David Flanagan." http://javascript.crockford.com/javascript.html Also, make sure you watch his tutorial videos. They're awesome! There is a series of four intro videos and three advanced videos: http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=111593 http://101out.com/js_advanced.php
4.		What is the Monkeysphere? (and the surprising implications for social nets) (cracked.com)
		14 points by nickb on Sept 30, 2007 \| 7 comments
		kirubakaran on Sept 30, 2007 \| parent \| context \| on: Ask YC Hackers: What's the best text for learning ... "I know a friend" who googled for inurl:javascript.the.definitive.guide filetype:pdf
6.		Vista Kicks Ass (mattmaroon.com)
		14 points by drm237 on Sept 30, 2007 \| 50 comments
7.		Facebook To Launch Friend Grouping. Competition Can Suck. (techcrunch.com)
		14 points by augy on Sept 30, 2007 \| 5 comments
8.		Benchmarks of different programming languages (debian.org)
		13 points by ratsbane on Sept 30, 2007
9.		Lisp as an Alternative to Java [PDF] (flownet.com)
		12 points by vlad on Sept 30, 2007 \| 9 comments
10.		Hacked? Your paranoia is justified! (p1k3.com)
		10 points by nickb on Sept 30, 2007 \| 1 comment
		pg on Sept 30, 2007 \| parent \| context \| on: Vista Kicks Ass I haven't had to reinstall once, and with XP I typically would have 3 times by now. I had no idea MS OSes were so bad. Reinstalling the OS is actually a routine thing?
12.		Apple's Growing Arrogance (reinventedsoftware.com)
		11 points by nickb on Sept 30, 2007 \| 9 comments
13.		Recursion and Human Thought: Why the Piraha Don't Have Numbers (quicktime video) (edge.org)
		11 points by kf on Sept 30, 2007 \| 1 comment
14.		Ask YC: how much time do you spend juggling to prepare your start-up?
		10 points by donna on Sept 30, 2007 \| 3 comments
15.		Ask YC: How do you intend to spend your YC investment?
		10 points by matth on Sept 30, 2007 \| 20 comments
16.		Pulsars are a secure time source (unenumerated.blogspot.com)
		9 points by arete on Sept 30, 2007 \| 2 comments
17.		The Physics of Medieval Archery (stortford-archers.org.uk)
		9 points by nickb on Sept 30, 2007
		seren6ipity on Sept 30, 2007 \| parent \| context \| on: Ask YC Hackers: What's the best text for learning ... Convey my thanks to "your friend"
19.		What the Hell Is Microsoft Doing with My Computer? (eweek.com)
		9 points by nickb on Sept 30, 2007 \| 3 comments
20.		"Ebay" by Weird Al Yankovic (youtube.com)
		9 points by amichail on Sept 30, 2007 \| 4 comments
		derefr on Sept 30, 2007 \| parent \| context \| on: My facebook no longer fits - Richard Hammond He was standing on the wrong side of the mirror at this very moment: > When I first looked at Facebook it was in the bar of a hotel with workmates. [...] They showed me - it meant nothing. People who use Facebook wonder what going to bars is for: "As far as I can see, it's a building where you put out an image of yourself [a bunch of make-up and/or cologne] and other people do the same. Then you all send each other little glances and approach one another and make pretend 'friends'. And that's sort of it, really."
		dmpayton on Sept 30, 2007 \| parent \| context \| on: Vista has turned into the desktop operating system... My day job is as a web developer for a small PC repair shop, and this article pretty much nails it. Many custom builds are requested with XP, and a lot of customers with Vista complain about it and some have us downgrade them to XP. I'm just glad I switched to Ubuntu.
		aaroniba on Sept 30, 2007 \| parent \| context \| on: Ask YC: How do you intend to spend your YC investm... We track our expenses using gnucash, which can generate cool reports like this one: http://www.getdropbox.com/u/86/appjet-summer07-expenses.gif So that's how we (2 of us) spent most of our $15k summer funds.
24.		iPhone Web Development with Ruby on Rails (devx.com)
		8 points by pius on Sept 30, 2007 \| 1 comment
25.		The Unsung Heroes Who Move Products Forward (nytimes.com)
		6 points by karzeem on Sept 30, 2007
		wyday on Sept 30, 2007 \| parent \| context \| on: Vista Kicks Ass I agree; the users that complain about Windows stability (the ones that aren't Mac using journalists) are the type that install sleazy toolbars and slipshod freeware. It's like having sex with everyone in the art department and wondering why you have herpes.
		jdavid on Sept 30, 2007 \| parent \| context \| on: Ask YC: What would the salary range be for program... In the Midwest in dollars per hour, newbs bill for 30-35 per hour. junior programers 35-55 senior 50-80 niche jr 50-85 niche sr 85-150 enterprise niche 100-250
		ardit33 on Sept 30, 2007 \| parent \| context \| on: Ask YC: What would the salary range be for program... 80,000 to 120,000 depending on experience. Anything less, and you are getting screwed. Anything more, and you are actually good either technically. or at negotiation. Don't sell yourself for little thou. You have all the power of negotiation BEFORE joining the company. After that, it will be very hard to get any big raises. The other thing, is to consider equity. Are you joining as just an employee of as a early starter employee that will creat their technology backbone.
		paulgb on Sept 30, 2007 \| parent \| context \| on: Vista Kicks Ass I think the point of the anti-Vista stuff is not that Vista is significantly worse than other MS OS, but that it is not enough of an improvement over XP for people to put up with the speed hit. It seems the people who hate Vista the most are people who use Mac OS or Linux anyway.
30.		An architect should code. Period. (codebetter.com)
		7 points by nickb on Sept 30, 2007 \| 1 comment
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