top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-01-14

MIT OpenCourseWare introduces courses designed for independent learners

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/mitocw-independent-learners.html

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Things Real People Don't Say About Advertising

http://tpdsaa.tumblr.com/

16 years ago

Git Immersion

http://gitimmersion.com/

16 years ago

US Patent system so dysfunctional you can patent a stick from a tree

http://www.google.com/patents?id=hhYJAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false

16 years ago

Malware researcher Dancho Danchev gone missing since August

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/we-need-help-with-the-strange-disappearance-of-dancho-danchev/7897

16 years ago

Projects: hijack (Hijacking the iPhone earphone jack)

http://eecs.umich.edu/~prabal/projects/hijack/

16 years ago

Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period

http://www.slate.com/?id=2281146

16 years ago

Reasons to Open a Chinese Bank Account

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704307404576080222812076888.html?mod=WSJAsia__MIDDLETopStories

16 years ago

The most mysterious Google ranking ever...

http://jamespanderson.tumblr.com/post/2744065946/most-mysterious-google-ranking-ever

16 years ago

"I think that djb redo will turn out to be the Git of build systems."

http://pozorvlak.livejournal.com/159126.html

16 years ago

Chromium Blog: More about the Chrome HTML Video Codec Change

http://blog.chromium.org/2011/01/more-about-chrome-html-video-codec.html

16 years ago

W3Fools - A W3Schools Intervention

http://w3fools.com/

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Why American Mothers are Superior

http://www.thejuliagroup.com/blog/?p=1033

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Why Indian Startups need to get off their asses and learn to program

http://indianstartupgyaan.wordpress.com/2011/01/13/why-indian-startups-need-to-get-off-their-asses-and-learn-to-program/

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Using Python and heat maps to determine the best place to aim on a dart board

http://thevirtuosi.blogspot.com/2011/01/darts.html

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MapReduce from the basics to the actually useful (in under 30 minutes)

http://blog.cloudant.com/39351506

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How to Buy an iPhone at the Worst Possible Time

http://designdare.com/how-to-buy-an-iphone-at-the-worst-possible-ti

16 years ago

Age of surveillance: the fish is rotting from its head

http://non-linear-response.blogspot.com/2011/01/age-of-surveillance-fish-is-rotting.html

16 years ago

How to win with an online store (hint: don't sell things available on Amazon)

http://www.gettingmoreawesome.com/2011/01/how-squishable-wins-online.html

16 years ago

Three Design Hacks from Apple

http://measuringmeasures.com/blog/2011/1/14/three-design-hacks-from-apple.html

16 years ago

Knuth TAOCP, Volume 4A Arrives. Pre-Order Your Copy

http://www.informit.com/promotions/promotion.aspx?promo=138111

16 years ago

Touch Trigonometry - a visual representation of the trig functions

http://www.touchtrigonometry.org/

16 years ago

LinkedIn shuts down Cubeduel, the viral co-worker rating service

http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2011/01/linkedin-shut-downs-cubeduel-co-worker.html

16 years ago

How Two Shoe Enthusiasts With No Programming Experience Built An iPhone App

http://www.beyondthepedway.com/sole-search-iphone-interview

16 years ago

Stolen laptop contains cancer research data

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20028475-1.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=Crave

16 years ago

Guy Steele: "How to Think about Parallel Programming: Not"

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Thinking-Parallel-Programming

16 years ago

Look Around You - Maths

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5054356894457127152#

16 years ago

Corona game from 14-year-old reaches no 1, passes Angry Birds

http://blog.anscamobile.com/2011/01/corona-game-from-14-year-old-developer-reaches-1-passes-angry-birds/

16 years ago

2010 Color Trends

http://www.colourlovers.com/business/blog/2011/01/12/2010-color-trends-business

16 years ago

"Should I still learn Java?" Answered: Yes.

http://beginwithjava.blogspot.com/2011/01/should-i-still-learn-java.html

16 years ago

Seed Stage Valuation Guide

https://jordancooper.wordpress.com/2011/01/12/seed-stage-valuation-guide/

16 years ago

Common Lisp is not secretly Scheme with bad syntax

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/43090ddeeb50051c

16 years ago

If You Are So Smart, Why Aren't You an Entrepreneur? (Study)

http://ideas.repec.org/p/iza/izadps/dp3648.html

16 years ago

Warning: Software Startups are Not as Easy as Everyone Says (2007)

http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2007/11/06/why-starting-a-software-company-is-not-as-easy-as-everyone-tells-you-and-why-facebook-apps-are-crap/

16 years ago

Classic Data Visualisation Papers

http://fellinlovewithdata.com/guides/7-classic-foundational-vis-papers

16 years ago

Are 10-11 hour programming days feasible?

http://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/01/13/229205/Are-10-11-Hour-Programming-Days-Feasible

16 years ago

What is a functional programming language?

http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/posts/what-is-a-functional-programming-language/

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Will Facebook ever be rid of the Winklevoss twins?

http://venturebeat.com/2011/01/13/facebook-appeal-winklevoss/

16 years ago

Happy 5th Birthday to jQuery, 1.5 Beta 1 is released.

http://blog.jquery.com/2011/01/14/jquery-1-5-beta-1-released/

16 years ago

Groupon Readies for An I.P.O.

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/01/13/groupon-readies-for-an-i-p-o/

16 years ago

Fruit fly nervous system: new solution to fundamental computer network problem

http://www.kurzweilai.net/fruit-fly-nervous-system-provides-new-solution-to-fundamental-computer-network-problem?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=d5f5bc2866-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email

16 years ago

Should employees buy their own computer?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12181570

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