| 1. | | Just buy this one (justbuythisone.com) |
| 289 points by will_critchlow on Nov 5, 2010 | 99 comments |
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| 2. | | Microsoft releases F# under Apache 2.0 license (msdn.com) |
| 217 points by ataranto on Nov 5, 2010 | 101 comments |
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| 3. | | How To Write a Learn X the Hard Way (sheddingbikes.com) |
| 194 points by fukumoto on Nov 5, 2010 | 50 comments |
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| 4. | | Google: Facebook Can’t Import Our User Data Any Longer Without Reciprocity (techcrunch.com) |
| 175 points by ssclafani on Nov 5, 2010 | 62 comments |
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| 5. | | "Please take this down and write your own book." (github.com/martinemde) |
| 170 points by bobbywilson0 on Nov 5, 2010 | 171 comments |
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| 6. | | Microsoft furious at $2,000 bounty for open source Kinect drivers (techeye.net) |
| 164 points by bensummers on Nov 5, 2010 | 125 comments |
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| 7. | | Lessons learned from helping over 150 startups with marketing (from my Offer HN) (insight.io) |
| 159 points by il on Nov 5, 2010 | 28 comments |
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| 8. | | Let's Do Lunch (paulgraham.com) |
| 156 points by yan on Nov 5, 2010 | 43 comments |
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| 9. | | Need a name for your startup? I wrote a domain name generator in Node.JS (archive.org) |
| 153 points by chaosmachine on Nov 5, 2010 | 61 comments |
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| 10. | | 37signals' Chalk Dissected (samisamhuri.blogspot.com) |
| 142 points by sstephenson on Nov 5, 2010 | 24 comments |
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| 11. | | Cool stuff you can do with netcat (wikipedia.org) |
| 126 points by ma2rten on Nov 5, 2010 | 39 comments |
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| 12. | | Now that you have turned 22 can I please give you some advice... (tawheedkader.com) |
| 116 points by ecaradec on Nov 5, 2010 | 63 comments |
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| 13. | | Conjoined twins who share a brain (macleans.ca) |
| 111 points by liuhenry on Nov 5, 2010 | 73 comments |
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| 14. | | Book review: Land of Lisp (slashdot.org) |
| 111 points by alrex021 on Nov 5, 2010 | 25 comments |
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| 15. | | Why Developers don't rush to create apps on new hardware/platforms. (marco.org) |
| 103 points by hardik988 on Nov 5, 2010 | 11 comments |
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| 16. | | Starting your first company (cdixon.posterous.com) |
| 103 points by Concours on Nov 5, 2010 | 33 comments |
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| 18. | | Scientists say dolphins should be treated as 'non-human persons' (current.com) |
| 94 points by riffraff on Nov 5, 2010 | 106 comments |
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| 20. | | Node-canvas. Server side HTML5 canvas implementation in node.js (learnboost.com) |
| 93 points by Rauchg on Nov 5, 2010 | 19 comments |
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| 21. | | Clojure Web Infrastructure (glenstampoultzis.net) |
| 90 points by fogus on Nov 5, 2010 | 18 comments |
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| 22. | | Ask HN: So I got first two paid customers, now what? |
| 89 points by vgurgov on Nov 5, 2010 | 69 comments |
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| 24. | | Why You Should Be Using Virtualisation In Your Development Environment (morethanseven.net) |
| 84 points by danw on Nov 5, 2010 | 42 comments |
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| 25. | | Genetic Secret to AIDS Immunity Found (technologyreview.com) |
| 83 points by MikeCapone on Nov 5, 2010 | 8 comments |
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| 26. | | Linus Torvalds' Greatest Invention (plover.com) |
| 83 points by draegtun on Nov 5, 2010 | 27 comments |
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| 27. | | Your career is a game of Dungeons & Dragons, not Monopoly (tjic.com) |
| 79 points by tjic on Nov 5, 2010 | 32 comments |
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| 28. | | Pylons & repoze.bfg Merge (groups.google.com) |
| 78 points by ericflo on Nov 5, 2010 | 32 comments |
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| 29. | | Tell HN: Tech Recruiters have no clue |
| 72 points by TamDenholm on Nov 5, 2010 | 111 comments |
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| 30. | | Kinect by Microsoft Keeps You Entertained Hands Free (nytimes.com) |
| 71 points by carterac on Nov 5, 2010 | 46 comments |
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I promise you that at many points, playing guitar felt like work to Jimmy Hendrix. Painting felt like work to Picasso. Muhammad Ali tried very hard to be the best. He also marketed the hell out of himself.
People who've never done something for a living that is a hobby for most participants think there's some clearly-defined line between work and passion. There's not. It's a continuum and you spend your life moving from one end to the other and back again if you're doing the right thing. If you're not you spend it all at one end.
Take advice, just don't view it as the gospel. Everyone here has probably been taking advice from PG, for instance, and is better off for it.