top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-10-29

Don't Call Yourself a Programmer

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-programmer/

15 years ago

Addictive and sticky HTML5 experiment

http://www.spielzeugz.de/html5/sticky-thing

15 years ago

Ubuntu should zig to Apple’s zag

http://bytebaker.com/2011/10/19/ubuntu-should-zig-to-apples-zag/

15 years ago

Why we think there's a Multiverse, not just our Universe

http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2011/10/why_we_think_theres_a_multiver.php

15 years ago

Git is exploding

http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=subversion+git+mercurial+bazaar&show_installed=on&show_vote=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&from_date&to_date&hlght_date&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1

15 years ago

Apple acquired mind-blowing 3D mapping company C3 Technologies

http://9to5mac.com/2011/10/29/apple-acquired-mind-blowing-3d-mapping-company-c3-technologies-looking-to-take-ios-maps-to-the-next-level/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+9To5Mac-MacAllDay+%289+to+5+Mac+-+Apple+Intelligence%29

15 years ago

This One Hurts: Dr. Walter Bortz on Dr. John McCarthy

http://walterbortz.wordpress.com/2011/10/28/this-one-hurts/

15 years ago

Publicly funded science should be open science

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204644504576653573191370088.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

15 years ago

The Inexplicable War on Lemonade Stands

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/08/03/the-inexplicable-war-on-lemonade-stands/

15 years ago

An Elephant Burial

http://whatblag.com/2011/10/29/an-elephant-burial/

15 years ago

IOS 4 vs. 5, Pixel by Pixel (jp)

http://stam-design-stam.blogspot.com/2011/10/ios-5.html

15 years ago

Elements of Modern C++ Style

http://herbsutter.com/elements-of-modern-c-style/

15 years ago

Startup School 2011 Live Stream

http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/

15 years ago

Linux From Scratch 7 Released

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/7.0/

15 years ago

What kind of buddhist was Steve Jobs, really?

http://blogs.plos.org/neurotribes/2011/10/28/what-kind-of-buddhist-was-steve-jobs-really/

15 years ago

Right to Remain Silent

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/414/right-to-remain-silent

15 years ago

What's in a name? Freshmeat is now Freecode

http://freecode.com/articles/whats-in-a-name

15 years ago

Introduction to Linguistics for Natural Language Processing

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/1112/L100/introling.pdf

15 years ago

How Does WordPress Make Money?

http://www.labnol.org/internet/blogging/how-wordpress-makes-money/7576/

15 years ago

Mass-Scale Cold Fusion a Success?

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-10/29/rossi-success

15 years ago

Utopia Is Creepy

http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2011/10/utopia_is_creep.php

15 years ago

SOPA: Hollywood Finally Gets A Chance to Break the Internet

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/sopa-hollywood-finally-gets-chance-break-internet

15 years ago

Node.js: details and best practices (a server side guy's analysis)

http://www.wilcoxd.com/whitepapers/node_js/

15 years ago

Codecademy and the Future of (Not) Learning to Code

http://www.hackeducation.com/2011/10/28/codecademy-and-the-future-of-not-learning-to-code/#.Tqw6dBzo7gw.hackernews

15 years ago

Show HN: Getting help with your ideas

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0Au1D7vlsizmSdGZVaFBXNTgyQ092M3QzeVdJbW8zRFE&single=true&gid=0&output=html

15 years ago

Carl Fisher

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_G._Fisher

15 years ago