# Hello

Action packed issue this time around, including some links I missed last week and lots of new startups and projects. Enjoy! +Kale

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# Selected Articles

• Zynga to employees: Give back our stock or you'll be fired
  (news.cnet.com) comments
• In defense of the Google chef
  (rondam.blogspot.com) comments
• A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
  (worrydream.com) comments
• Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash, refocuses efforts on HTML5
  (zdnet.com) comments
• Watch Me Make Mistakes
  (paulgraham.com) comments
• The Social Graph is Neither
  (blog.pinboard.in) comments
• SEO tricks from Patio11
  (melmiranda.com) comments
• "I've isolated the bug to a database query"
  (thedailywtf.com) comments
• Apple's Supply Chain Secret
  (businessweek.com) comments
• You're a developer, so why do you work for someone else?
  (intermittentintelligence.com) comments

# Ask HN

• Ask HN: Startup promised me a job, then backed out after the internship
• Ask HN: Someone else made a "Pro" version of my app. What can I do about it?
• Poll: Devs, Have You Used oDesk or eLance?
• Ask PG: Are there IP blocks?

# Classics

• Apple's Mistake comments
• So You Wanna Be a Chef - Anthony Bourdain comments
• htty, the HTTP TTY comments

# Recent startups/projects/apps launched

• Treehouse has launched comments
• BankSimple invites first customers; rebrands itself as Simple comments
• Show HN: An OS X music library I've been working on for the past year. comments
• Show HN: Scroll Reddit comments
• Convergence: complete HTML5 game comments
• Show HN: AI tool reads privacy policies, tells you which sites sell your info. comments
• Show HN: Random Google Street View comments
• Show HN: My app in 4 weeks is done comments
• Show HN: My 24-hour project, instacss.com comments

# Code/Dev

• Confident Code comments
• I wrote BozoCrack to show why plain MD5 is a horrible way to hash passwords. comments
• The Art and Science of Great Code comments
• Reading local files in JavaScript (HTML5) comments
• Ruby: Make a static website from your sinatra app with 75loc comments

# Design

• Go nuts with CSS3 hover effects comments
• Awesome about page comments
• Redesigning the country selector comments
• Why Gmail's new design is unsuitable for heavy use comments
• The Pure CSS3 Content Slider comments
• Playing with SVG Design comments

# Books

• Amazon Prime's new killer app: Kindle books by subscription comments

# Wikipedia

• Timsort comments

# Videos

• The Knife Maker comments
• Father's homemade machine helps disabled son to walk (video) comments

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