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		INTP
		250 points \| parent
2.		Coin-operated Borgocrat goes to Google, acquires whole new set of opinions (fakesteve.net)
		175 points by javery on Nov 16, 2009 \| 42 comments
3.		O'Reilly: "We're heading into a war for control of the web." (oreilly.com)
		133 points by lecha on Nov 16, 2009 \| 50 comments
4.		'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die' (spiegel.de)
		126 points by robg on Nov 16, 2009 \| 43 comments
5.		Google Wave's Scrollbars (ignorethecode.net)
		124 points by blasdel on Nov 16, 2009 \| 55 comments
6.		Don Dodge: fired from Microsoft, hired by Google (dondodge.typepad.com)
		114 points by dennisgorelik on Nov 16, 2009 \| 69 comments
7.		What I Wish Someone Had Told Me (about starting a company) (bluyah.net)
		97 points by hariis on Nov 16, 2009 \| 31 comments
8.		Malcolm Gladwell's response to Steven Pinker's review of his new book (gladwell.typepad.com)
		79 points by theycallmemorty on Nov 16, 2009 \| 64 comments
		ENTP
		75 points \| parent
10.		In Silicon Valley, Settlers is the New Golf (summation.net)
		76 points by andrewpbrett on Nov 16, 2009 \| 50 comments
11.		Copyright Time Bomb Set to Disrupt Music, Publishing Industries (wired.com)
		75 points by ALee on Nov 16, 2009 \| 23 comments
		INFP
		72 points \| parent
		icey on Nov 16, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: Don Dodge: fired from Microsoft, hired by Google When a girl breaks up with you, you want to be sure she knows that the new one is way, way hotter. And smarter. And frankly has better friends.
		ENTJ
		68 points \| parent
15.		Coding Horror: Parsing Html The Cthulhu Way (codinghorror.com)
		66 points by Anon84 on Nov 16, 2009 \| 33 comments
16.		Metaprogramming in Ruby: It’s All About the Self (yehudakatz.com)
		61 points by ivey on Nov 16, 2009 \| 17 comments
		ewanmcteagle on Nov 16, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: Coin-operated Borgocrat goes to Google, acquires w... I think this deserved pointing out. I'm not sure where this Don Dodge is great stuff comes from or what it's based on but these few posts about him do make him seem coin-operated. The best developer evangelists are able to be sincere, thoughtful and helpful. Without those qualities it's a job that tends to make you into a shill.
18.		Poll: What are the Meyers-Briggs personality types of HN?
		58 points by hop on Nov 16, 2009 \| 78 comments
19.		How A Quiet Developer Grew Goodreads To 2.6 Million Members (mixergy.com)
		57 points by kareemm on Nov 16, 2009 \| 20 comments
20.		Don Dodge hired by Google (techcrunch.com)
		56 points by bradgessler on Nov 16, 2009 \| 15 comments
21.		The death of the URL (factoryjoe.com)
		52 points by genieyclo on Nov 16, 2009 \| 25 comments
22.		Learning Advanced JavaScript (ejohn.org)
		52 points by bensummers on Nov 16, 2009 \| 15 comments
23.		The 40-30-30 Rule: Why Risk Is Worth It (the99percent.com)
		51 points by wgj on Nov 16, 2009 \| 16 comments
		dschobel on Nov 16, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: Don Dodge: fired from Microsoft, hired by Google I find it weird that he's so transparent about "company X pays me now, company X's products are SO much better than anything I've used in the past". Is this stuff compelling to engineers who care about technical merit rather than who is paying his salary?
25.		Atlas Beta Program Launched (heroku.com)
		46 points by wooby on Nov 16, 2009 \| 38 comments
26.		Introduction to Algorithms, Third Edition (mitpress.mit.edu)
		45 points by tokenadult on Nov 16, 2009 \| 12 comments
27.		Ask HN: Learning 2 Hack - For the very first time. With a deadline.
		44 points by biz2hack on Nov 16, 2009 \| 47 comments
28.		Intel 4004 schematics published as Creative Commons (4004.com)
		42 points by ropiku on Nov 16, 2009 \| 11 comments
29.		Conrad Barski Land of Lisp presentation at Philly Lambda (motionbox.com)
		42 points by MaysonL on Nov 16, 2009 \| 10 comments
		chris100 on Nov 16, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: Coin-operated Borgocrat goes to Google, acquires w... FSJ has a point here. The blind endorsment of Google technology within a week of switching jobs is fishy. Plain and simple.
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