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1.Good bye Microsoft! MS employee and author of 9 Visual Basic books has now left the building (for RoR). (peterwright.blogspot.com)
12 points by vlad on May 20, 2007 | 6 comments
2.For newbies - 94 video tutorials which sequentially go through learning Ruby on Rails (youtube.com)
12 points by sharpshoot on May 20, 2007 | 4 comments
3.Teach yourself programming in 10 years (norvig.com)
10 points by bootload on May 20, 2007
4.What to do when your co-founder takes a backseat?
6 points by JohnN on May 20, 2007 | 16 comments
5.Web 2.0, Microsoft, and the Costs at Scale (oreilly.com)
4 points by bootload on May 20, 2007 | 2 comments
6.What is Twitter's source of income??
5 points by ivan on May 20, 2007 | 22 comments
7.EarlyStageVC: Flattery Will Get You Nowhere (earlystagevc.typepad.com)
5 points by jkopelman on May 20, 2007
8.YC competitor: how TechStars was born (denverpost.com)
5 points by Sam_Odio on May 20, 2007 | 14 comments
9.Google homepage breaks basic web design rule (wired.com)
5 points by bootload on May 20, 2007 | 1 comment
10.Yahoo to purchase Bebo for $1Bn? (mashable.com)
4 points by sharpshoot on May 20, 2007
11.How did you choose the name for your web company?
4 points by kingnothing on May 20, 2007 | 9 comments
12.$6bn for aQuantive? Did Microsoft "loose its head?" (gigaom.com)
3 points by Sam_Odio on May 20, 2007
13.Douglas Crockford of Y! about Software Quality (video) (yuiblog.com)
3 points by mati on May 20, 2007 | 1 comment
14.Internet Increasingly Censored (technologyreview.com)
3 points by gibsonf1 on May 20, 2007 | 1 comment
15.Elance Case Study -- Startup Review (startup-review.com)
2 points by staunch on May 20, 2007
16.Narrowing Online Market Focus / Keywords are key: Small businesses find pay-per-click ads can be economical tool (sfgate.com)
2 points by gibsonf1 on May 20, 2007
17.Wingmap flies new approach to flight search (techcrunch.com)
2 points by bootload on May 20, 2007
18.News.YCers at RailsConf?
2 points by jamiequint on May 20, 2007 | 1 comment
19.Will YC fund non-American startups?
2 points by Keios on May 20, 2007 | 8 comments
20.Will The Gaming Of Open Ad Systems Slow The Growth Of Online Advertising? (publishing2.com)
2 points by gibsonf1 on May 20, 2007
21.DHH's Rails Keynote (oreilly.com)
2 points by bootload on May 20, 2007
22.Don't Finance Anyone Over 27 (nytimes.com)
2 points by bootload on May 20, 2007 | 2 comments
23.Internet Giants Vie to Snap Up Web Ad Firms (nytimes.com)
2 points by bootload on May 20, 2007
24.Pros and Cons of Web-Based Mail (nytimes.com)
2 points by bootload on May 20, 2007
25.Insteresting thread on JavaFX, GWT, and Silverlight (groups.google.com)
1 point by amichail on May 20, 2007
26.Perl Golf Apocalypse (wikipedia.org)
1 point by danw on May 20, 2007 | 1 comment
27.Why are unions weak in the USA, but so powerful in France, India etc. even though they are bad for the economy?
1 point by juwo on May 20, 2007 | 2 comments
28.Microsoft's new brain (cnn.com)
1 point by bootload on May 20, 2007
29.Twitter as coral reef (scripting.com)
1 point by bootload on May 20, 2007
30.Coral reefs, the saga continues (scripting.com)
1 point by bootload on May 20, 2007

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