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Stories from September 2, 2011
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1. Michael Arrington Resigns From Techcrunch (wsj.com)
322 points by moses1400 on Sept 2, 2011 | 74 comments
2. Amazon’s Kindle Tablet Is Very Real. I’ve Seen It, Played With It. (techcrunch.com)
302 points by ssclafani on Sept 2, 2011 | 191 comments
3. Highly Successful Bootstrapped Startups (softwarebyrob.com)
226 points by davidw on Sept 2, 2011 | 68 comments
4. Google App Engine Pricing Angers Developers, Kills PlusFeed (readwriteweb.com)
223 points by jzb on Sept 2, 2011 | 143 comments
5. Automate download, install, config of IE-only VM's with VirtualBox (Linux/OSX) (github.com/xdissent)
219 points by donohoe on Sept 2, 2011 | 59 comments
6. How to Write Good iOS Apps (coffeetimerapp.com)
171 points by AshFurrow on Sept 2, 2011 | 62 comments
7. Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Future in 1964 … And Kind of Nails It (openculture.com)
152 points by ColinWright on Sept 2, 2011 | 68 comments
8. A fall spring-cleaning - Google products getting shut down (googleblog.blogspot.com)
147 points by abraham on Sept 2, 2011 | 79 comments
9. The conversation that led to Ruby being called Ruby (nagaokaut.ac.jp)
146 points by carlosgaldino on Sept 2, 2011 | 33 comments
10. The College For-Profits Should Fear (washingtonmonthly.com)
122 points by blatherard on Sept 2, 2011 | 67 comments
11. The $100K Taxi Ride, One Year Later (baydin.com)
118 points by craigkerstiens on Sept 2, 2011 | 28 comments
12. Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Beta 1, Released (webupd8.org)
114 points by hotice on Sept 2, 2011 | 66 comments
13. Ridiculously Transparent (bhorowitz.com)
111 points by InfinityX0 on Sept 2, 2011 | 19 comments
14. Bootstrapping a $30k profit/month company from our undergrad internship earnings (fiplab.com)
110 points by n9com on Sept 2, 2011 | 34 comments
15. Aspect Ratios (tbray.org)
92 points by alexandros on Sept 2, 2011 | 34 comments
16. Deploying Node.js on Amazon EC2 (carbonfive.com)
89 points by rudyjahchan on Sept 2, 2011 | 17 comments
17. U.S. Set to Sue a Dozen Big Banks Over Mortgages (nytimes.com)
78 points by ryanwhitney on Sept 2, 2011 | 77 comments
18. Follow up emails work (gettingmoreawesome.com)
79 points by rishi on Sept 2, 2011 | 27 comments
19. Scala is for drivers (fogus.me)
74 points by rbanffy on Sept 2, 2011 | 46 comments
20. Pyweek13 is coming. Learn python the hardest way: make a game in a week (pyweek.org)
74 points by illumen on Sept 2, 2011 | 8 comments
21. Using jQuery’s Data APIs (learningjquery.com)
67 points by joshuacc on Sept 2, 2011 | 12 comments
22. Clojure Hills of Abstraction (puredanger.com)
66 points by icey on Sept 2, 2011 | 13 comments
23. Sneaking into the Fortune 500 through the back door (37signals.com)
65 points by joshuacc on Sept 2, 2011 | 20 comments
24. Steve Jobs's Law: Why Founders Make the Best Leaders (theatlantic.com)
64 points by coatta on Sept 2, 2011 | 25 comments
25. Apple Investigators Posed as Police in New Lost iPhone Prototype Search? (macrumors.com)
63 points by antr on Sept 2, 2011 | 62 comments
26. A set of useful mixins for LESS CSS (lesselements.com)
61 points by llambda on Sept 2, 2011 | 11 comments
27. Rob Pike (2001): Presentation looking back on 1 billion seconds of Unix. [pdf] (herpolhode.com)
57 points by bdhe on Sept 2, 2011 | 22 comments
28. Technical Explanation (of Bayes' theorem) (yudkowsky.net)
56 points by olalonde on Sept 2, 2011 | 5 comments
29. Part 2: How I dealt with a burnout (chriseidhof.tumblr.com)
56 points by chriseidhof on Sept 2, 2011 | 24 comments
30. What Every Government (Except One) Doesn't Get About Startups (theatlantic.com)
54 points by jlind on Sept 2, 2011 | 23 comments

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