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1.Being a Developer Makes You Valuable. Learning How to Market Makes You Dangerous (talsraviv.com)
374 points by talsraviv on July 26, 2012 | 83 comments
2.What I Learned From Increasing My Prices (extendslogic.com)
369 points by kanamekun on July 26, 2012 | 41 comments
3.The Mac App Store’s future of irrelevance (marco.org)
349 points by rrreese on July 26, 2012 | 234 comments
4.OAuth 2.0 and the Road to Hell (hueniverse.com)
305 points by dho on July 26, 2012 | 71 comments
5.Open-Source High-quality PDF of SICP (github.com/sarabander)
277 points by oinksoft on July 26, 2012 | 67 comments
6.Why Do Startups Do This? (asymptomatic.net)
276 points by ringmaster on July 26, 2012 | 74 comments

Thank GOD they're disrupting this industry. All the telcos are worthless "Soviet bureaus" that deserve death.

It's really sort of amazing to think about. In all my years on this planet I have never been pleased with a telecom company. Never. I have always felt like I was paying far too much for inferior service, contemptible customer support, and endless efforts to further "monetize" me through harassing phone calls trying to sell me more stuff, intrusive DNS systems that redirect me to their crappy web sites, etc.

There is not a single other industry I can say that about, certainly not one that comes to mind so quickly. Hell, I can't even say that about the government.

As if that's not bad enough, this industry seems to spend a lot of money lobbying to destroy the open Internet, which is like a car company lobbying to increase the number of annoying traffic regulations in order to make it less enjoyable to drive.

8.Apparently Yelp has a no-fly list (chriszf.posterous.com)
269 points by chriszf on July 26, 2012 | 114 comments
9.What's with this anti-directory structure movement? (osnews.com)
229 points by wim on July 26, 2012 | 265 comments
10.Show HN: Music for Geeks and Nerds (musicforgeeksandnerds.com)
221 points by kroger on July 26, 2012 | 74 comments
11.Moving On (al3x.net)
216 points by thiele on July 26, 2012 | 69 comments
12.Get A Job: The Craigslist Experiment (thoughtcatalog.com)
211 points by kawera on July 26, 2012 | 127 comments
13.First glider discovered in a cellular automata on an aperiodic tiling (plus.google.com)
182 points by tim_hutton on July 26, 2012 | 28 comments
14.The IPS LCD Revolution (codinghorror.com)
152 points by FredericJ on July 26, 2012 | 91 comments
15.Brightcove Acquires Zencoder (YC W10) (zencoder.com)
152 points by fowlduck on July 26, 2012 | 37 comments
16.Google Handwrite (techcrunch.com)
143 points by sama on July 26, 2012 | 76 comments
17.Zynga Insiders Who Cashed Out Before The Stock Crashed (yahoo.com)
136 points by larrys on July 26, 2012 | 58 comments
18.FundersClub (YC S12) Wants To Bypass VC And Let You Invest In Startups (techcrunch.com)
136 points by kunle on July 26, 2012 | 37 comments
19.Google Talk is down (google.com)
135 points by kkuduk on July 26, 2012 | 96 comments
20.GNU grep 2.12 changes behavior of recursion options, breaks existing scripts (debian.org)
119 points by cschramm on July 26, 2012 | 77 comments
21.Changing My Mind On Microsoft (brontecapital.blogspot.com)
104 points by bedris on July 26, 2012 | 111 comments
22.The Minecraft API Is Now On Github (github.com/mojang)
102 points by aprendo on July 26, 2012 | 51 comments
23.Gunsmith Uses 3D Printer To Make A Rifle (webpronews.com)
96 points by jessicaSFNY on July 26, 2012 | 152 comments
24.The average iOS app (daveaddey.com)
92 points by rythie on July 26, 2012 | 43 comments
25.RIP Andre Hedrick: The engineer who kept the PC open (theregister.co.uk)
89 points by rwrwrw on July 26, 2012 | 24 comments
26.Pasting Text Into Vim (stackoverflow.com)
81 points by whereiswaldo on July 26, 2012 | 34 comments
27.No Credit for Uncle Sam in creating Net? Vint Cerf disagrees (cnet.com)
79 points by smd4 on July 26, 2012 | 77 comments
28.FoundationDB: A new generation of NoSQL database (foundationdb.com)
78 points by shansinha79 on July 26, 2012 | 73 comments
29.R3, a map-reduce engine with Python and Redis (heynemann.github.com)
76 points by mricordeau on July 26, 2012 | 38 comments

If they had the guest list beforehand, they had a responsibility to inform you of this issue before the trip. Putting you on the spot forced you into making a crappy decision either way you went with it.

I personally would have yanked all the students out and explained why and exactly why you were all leaving to someone in authority if this couldn't be cleared up, further that it was going to go up on the Internet, but my personal bias stems from years of being excluded from things for no obvious reason as a kid.


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