# Hello

Welcome to issue number 75! With the help of random.org, Brianna S. is the winner of the Kindle Fire. Thank you to everyone that entered and for spreading the word! Another jam packed issue, just like the previous 74 weeks, follows... enjoy! @Kale

# Featured

• Louis C.K., the stand-up comedian and actor, did an interesting experiment of going direct by self-producing and publishing his content (comments) straight from his site. Four days later he wrote about the results: over $500,000 in 4 days (comments).

# Selected Articles

• The nightmarish SOPA hearings
  (washingtonpost.com) comments
• Programming With Nothing: FizzBuzz in the lambda calculus in Ruby
  (experthuman.com) comments
• Vim: revisited
  (mislav.uniqpath.com) comments
• Google is working on integrating terminal emulator into Chrome
  (src.chromium.org) comments
• At the End of a Procrastinated Day
  (removed.posterous.com) comments
• I'm starting to think LEGO is evil
  (sinker.tumblr.com) comments
• From zero to Go: launching on the Google homepage in 24 hours
  (blog.golang.org) comments
• Scott Hanselman's 2011 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
  (hanselman.com) comments
• What is 1e100.net?
  (support.google.com) comments
• Hacking Google for Fun and Profit
  (blog.andrewcantino.com) comments
• Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Unveils Giant Plane for Private Space Launches
  (space.com) comments
• Research Tools class
  (vislab-ccom.unh.edu) comments

# Ask HN

• Ask HN: small startups, what do you use for health insurance?

# Classics

• Why Can't Programmers.. Program? comments
• The 18 things you must do when launching a new website comments
• Making 400k/yr profit on an eBook about parrots comments

# Recent startups/projects/apps launched

• TextMate 2 (Public) Alpha comments
• Create - A new kind of web editing interface comments
• LocalWiki, a really easy to use geographically-based wiki, released comments
• Show HN: Web hosting for Dropbox comments
• Show HN: Review my startup, gtrot.com comments

# Code/Dev

• A Case Against Using CoffeeScript comments
• (Python) Generator Tricks For Systems Programmer comments
• Leaving JSPs in the dust: moving LinkedIn to dust.js client-side templates comments
• Advanced Bash Scripting comments
• Imagine a world where Bash supports JSON. comments
• Learn Knockout.js in 30 minutes comments
• Tutorial: Play Framework, JPA, JSON, jQuery, & Heroku comments
• Why don't they implement python and ruby on the web browsers? comments

# Design

• Design is Horsesh!t comments
• The Messy Art Of UX Sketching comments
• Billions worth of value created by tech startups with designer co-founders? comments
• Interactive CSS3 lighting effects comments

# Books

• The Command Line Crash Course Controlling Your Computer From The Terminal comments
• The Riak Handbook now available comments

# Wikipedia

• Blanking all Wikipedia - SOPA protest comments
• Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo comments

# Videos

• 'WildChords' is One of the Coolest Things I've Seen the iPad Do comments
• Vintage Steve Jobs footage on Apple (1980) comments
• Stack Exchange's Really Big Monitor Setup comments

# Job Threads

• Why you can't hire comments
• Tell HN: Actually, the real reason you can't hire developers.... comments
• Getting a job in software development: A Reddit discussion round-up comments
• Hiring Employee #1 comments
• Beating the Talent Crunch with a Distributed Team comments
• Y Combinator Startups: Job Board
• UseTheSource Job Board

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