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1.		Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal (jonathanischwartz.wordpress.com)
		209 points by jcsalterego on March 9, 2010 \| 51 comments
2.		The Single Sign On (thedailywtf.com)
		195 points by billpg on March 9, 2010 \| 70 comments
3.		Effort shock: how the Karate Kid ruined the modern world (johndiesattheend.com)
		158 points by bd on March 9, 2010 \| 71 comments
4.		This is amazing. HTML5. No Flash. No Java. Works on iPhone. (cimota.com)
		135 points by mikecane on March 9, 2010 \| 59 comments
5.		A Shocking Truth About CSS (twoalex.com)
		141 points by _pius on March 9, 2010 \| 66 comments
6.		What were Einstein and Gödel talking about? (2005) (newyorker.com)
		110 points by RiderOfGiraffes on March 9, 2010 \| 13 comments
7.		EFF on Apple's iPhone Developer Program Agreement (eff.org)
		102 points by dpifke on March 9, 2010 \| 78 comments
8.		Getting Real About Office Hours (metalabdesign.com)
		101 points by mikeyur on March 9, 2010 \| 64 comments
9.		How to Ask for an Introduction (tonywright.com)
		93 points by webwright on March 9, 2010 \| 12 comments
10.		Energizer battery charger contains backdoor (zdnet.com)
		84 points by raptrex on March 9, 2010 \| 63 comments
11.		Programmers: What To Do If You Get Fired (gilesbowkett.blogspot.com)
		78 points by petercooper on March 9, 2010 \| 58 comments
12.		Lava Lamp Centrifuge (fraser.name)
		70 points by jballanc on March 9, 2010 \| 38 comments
13.		Management today review of 37signal's "Rework" (managementtoday.co.uk)
		70 points by tomh- on March 9, 2010 \| 65 comments
14.		Rework is now in stores (37signals.com)
		76 points by dawie on March 9, 2010 \| 28 comments
		freetard on March 9, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal Respect for Jonathan, the guy who successfully got Steve Jobs to shut up and back up.
16.		White House Can't Stream Biden's Speech; So Uses Justin.tv Instead (techdirt.com)
		62 points by evansolomon on March 9, 2010 \| 6 comments
17.		You need a paper licence to link to the Royal Mail website (malcolmcoles.co.uk)
		60 points by bensummers on March 9, 2010 \| 40 comments
		goodside on March 9, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: A Shocking Truth About CSS Scroll to the botom, and: 11:44:33 AM Alex K: that makes it sound like it may not be worth huge optimization? 11:44:46 AM Alex M: no, not really
19.		Jessica Roy: Dear San Francisco Employers: Please Hire Me (jessicakroy.com)
		57 points by od on March 9, 2010 \| 53 comments
		doty on March 9, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: Mozilla borrows from WebKit to build fast new JS e... Two different, competing implementations is nothing but good. They will have different security vulnerabilities. They will try out different optimizations and learn from each other. The competition makes each of them better.
		Semiapies on March 9, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: Programmers: What To Do If You Get Fired What a long-winded ad.
		axod on March 9, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: Rework is now in stores The management today review of this is actually quite interesting http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/rss/article/985294 37signals brush it off as criticism that should just be ignored because their website includes the word "management", but a lot of what they say is pretty near the mark IMHO. For example: `The authors' advice is so sweeping and deliberately confrontational that it misses all the subtleties that actually make businesses succeed. We are told: 'Meetings are toxic.' In reality, good meetings are good and bad meetings are not good, but don't try and make a name for your software company by issuing such over-heated generalisations.` The other thing they may not have realized is management today is a UK publication, and we're pretty averse to 'motivational' things over here. It's just not really our culture.
23.		Etherpad, resurrected: typewith.me (typewith.me)
		57 points by d4ft on March 9, 2010 \| 13 comments
24.		Résumé (C.V.) using Google Maps (maps.google.co.uk)
		60 points by jakarta on March 9, 2010 \| 23 comments
		simonw on March 9, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: Mozilla borrows from WebKit to build fast new JS e... "I still wonder why Firefox even bothers with writing its own engines instead of using webkit and v8. There really is no need for 2 open source rendering engines, that do the exact same thing." It's a good thing the WebKit and V8 teams didn't have that attitude, or the only open source rendering engine would be Gecko.
26.		Rogue waves (bentilly.blogspot.com)
		53 points by btilly on March 9, 2010 \| 9 comments
27.		Making Ruby Fast: The Rubinius JIT (engineyard.com)
		48 points by wifelette on March 9, 2010 \| 13 comments
		amadiver on March 9, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: This is amazing. HTML5. No Flash. No Java. Works o... That is some amazing blog spam. http://mrdoob.com/lab/javascript/harmony/
29.		StickyBits: Add a bar code based history to any physical object (stickybits.com)
		46 points by replicatorblog on March 9, 2010 \| 40 comments
		kemiller on March 9, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: The Single Sign On That was actually a pretty clever solution he came up with. I didn't see the punchline coming.
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