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1.HTC 1 (designfabulous.blogspot.com)
247 points by ecaron on July 12, 2010 | 127 comments
2.My experience as the first employee of a Y Combinator startup (nathanmarz.com)
192 points by budu on July 12, 2010 | 106 comments
3.App Inventor for Android - Android Software Development for Everyone (googlelabs.com)
172 points by talbina on July 12, 2010 | 72 comments
4.Out Of Nowhere, The iPad Has A Real Competitor (ipadtest.wordpress.com)
174 points by mikecane on July 12, 2010 | 130 comments
5.No, that is not a competitive advantage (asmartbear.com)
166 points by gthank on July 12, 2010 | 107 comments
6.Nuke’em Till They Glow – Quitting My First Job (steveblank.com)
146 points by jbyers on July 12, 2010 | 26 comments
7.Man claims to own 84% stake in Facebook - judge grants TRO in his favor (wsj.com)
138 points by grellas on July 12, 2010 | 41 comments
8.In defence of SQL (seldo.com)
125 points by seldo on July 12, 2010 | 126 comments
9.Higher-Order Perl is available for free as a PDF (plover.com)
115 points by henning on July 12, 2010 | 28 comments
10.One year of Amazon Prime free for students (amazon.com)
104 points by michaelfairley on July 12, 2010 | 69 comments
11.Ask HN: How did you 'accidentally' make money?
86 points by kadavy on July 12, 2010 | 87 comments
12.Spotify for Linux (native) (spotify.com)
83 points by DrJokepu on July 12, 2010 | 40 comments
13.Why did Quora choose Python (over PHP and others) for its development? (quora.com)
83 points by rxin on July 12, 2010 | 42 comments

In that vein, http://sale.sitepoint.com/claimpdf.php?email=foo%40bar.com is now a direct download link :)
15.Judge draws parallel between music sharing and unlicensed public performance (arstechnica.com)
71 points by CoryOndrejka on July 12, 2010 | 9 comments
16.Lab tests: Why Consumer Reports can't recommend the iPhone 4 (consumerreports.org)
73 points by bensummers on July 12, 2010 | 74 comments
17.Razor Burn: A Flood of Fancy Shavers Leaves Some Men Feeling Nicked (wsj.com)
70 points by grellas on July 12, 2010 | 88 comments
18.9th Circuit Guts "First Sale" Rights (arstechnica.com)
69 points by CoryOndrejka on July 12, 2010 | 26 comments
19.Corporate cultures in Japan (japansubculture.com)
66 points by jbm on July 12, 2010 | 25 comments
20. I live on the gulf coast and started covering the oil spill (itsabigocean.com)
64 points by jonknee on July 12, 2010 | 12 comments
21.Why Programming Isn’t For Me (goodlook.me)
64 points by chamza on July 12, 2010 | 23 comments
22.PG's Hackers & Painters is O'Reilly's $10 ebook deal today (twitter.com/oreillymedia)
65 points by dreyfiz on July 12, 2010 | 23 comments

My experience as being employee 8 million at a Large Corporation is nearly identical. I can choose my own tools, work from home when I want to, take breaks, etc.

We've already taken care of the cash flow thing, so it ends up being much more relaxing than working for a small company. We aren't going to go out of business if our software isn't released tomorrow, so we have lots of time to write quality solutions. We can build stuff that's really nice to work on, instead of stuff that will give us one more checkbox in a TechCrunch comparison article.

(I worked at a small company for a long time. It was less flexible, and every year, we "don't have enough money" for a raise. Eventually it was very stressful, my input didn't matter at all, and I got paid nothing. All for what most people consider "the ideal job". "Going corporate" was the best thing I ever did!)

24.Switching to Android (chadfowler.com)
59 points by tortilla on July 12, 2010 | 60 comments

Careful.

Ceglia can be a crook and have a valid contract.

26.Is Gravity Real? A Scientist Takes On Newton (nytimes.com)
59 points by donohoe on July 12, 2010 | 29 comments
27.8bit city maps (8bitcity.com)
58 points by albertzeyer on July 12, 2010 | 10 comments
28.Super Mario Bros Augmented Reality (techi.com)
53 points by sz on July 12, 2010 | 9 comments

Hi - It's Jen from SitePoint, here. Glad to hear you guys are enjoying the free copy of jQuery:Novice to Ninja!

As for marketing emails, we always include an "unsubscribe" link. SitePoint will never sell your email address or your information.

Enjoy the freebie!

30.Wireshark: Facetime on Iphone 4: Vanilla unencrypted STUN and SIP (roychowdhury.org)
54 points by pmikal on July 12, 2010 | 17 comments

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