# Hello

Merry Christmas to you all and let it snow! If you get bored over the holiday weekend check out Notch's MiniCraft, a 2D version of his popular Mindcraft game, from this year's Ludum Dare competition.

# Featured: SOPA

Seems like everyday was full of articles on this hot topic. Here is a round-up of them:

• Companies that support the SOPA bill was a major topic this week, from Paul Graham saying SOPA Supporting Companies No Longer Allowed At YC Demo Day (comments) to a massive boycott of GoDaddy: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day" (comments), A Step By Step Guide to Transfer Domains Out Of GoDaddy (comments), StackOverflow also planning to switch from GoDaddy due to SOPA concerns. (comments), List of YC companies that use GoDaddy (comments).
  That lead to GoDaddy changing its mind (comments) earlier today and now they're having to do damage control (comments).
  Have you transferred your domains from GoDaddy yet? I haven't yet, but will be doing so soon for this reason and others.
• Dear Internet: It's no Longer OK to Not Know How Congress Works (informationdiet.com) comments
• Dear Congress, It's No Longer OK To Not Know How The Internet Works (motherboard.vice.com) comments
• Reddit admin: "If SOPA passes it would almost certainly mean the end of reddit" (reddit.com) comments
• Protest SOPA with stopcensorship.js (github.com) comments

# Selected Articles

• An Indian Inventor Disrupts The Period Industry
  (fastcoexist.com) comments
• The Secret History of Kim Jung Il -- written by one of his high school teachers
  (foreignpolicy.com) comments
• Where's Waldo?
  (stackoverflow.com) comments
• Desingineer - the mythical person every Startups are looking for
  (brajeshwar.com) comments
• I'm turning 30 and I've produced no amazing art.
  (spking.com) comments
• John Resig - JavaScript as a First Language
  (ejohn.org) comments
• My Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Mac
  (carpeaqua.com) comments
• Bingo Card Creator (&etc) Year In Review 2011
  (kalzumeus.com) comments
• Tips for Remote Unix Work (SSH, screen, and VNC)
  (shebang.brandonmintern.com) comments
• The switch: Python to Node.js
  (journal.paul.querna.org) comments
• Startup Idea: User Retention as a Service
  (paulstamatiou.com) comments
• All Hacker Monthly issues free for next ~24 hours
  (hn.my) comments

# Recent startups/projects/apps launched

• Show HN: I Created the Inverse of Angry Birds comments
• Show HN: Codecademy Labs, the easiest way to write, run, and share code online comments

# Code/Dev

• "Another World" (game) Code Review comments
• Sinatra::Synchrony - Evented, fast, concurrent Ruby web apps with no callbacks comments
• Massive Ruby speed boost with JRuby and Java 7. comments
• Ruby lesson: Scraping a jail's website comments

# Design

• "Time-saving" Generators for Designers comments
• Golden Ratio for Readable Web Typography comments
• Ask HN: better 1st person (My Items,My Photos) or 2nd (Your Items,Your Photos)?

# Books

• How Super Mario Bros. 3 was made comments
• Backbone.js Fundamentals comments
• 10 Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice) Speaking of twice, this was in a previous issue a couple months ago, but it made it to the front page again along with another round of good comments.
• Recipes with Backbone.js comments

# Wikipedia

• Background of .plan files: the 1977 Finger Protocol comments

# Videos

• Dropping a Magnet Through a Copper Pipe comments
• MailChimp co-founder on running a creative company
  This wasn't on HN, but I would recommend watching it as it was a great talk. Disclaimer: I use MailChimp every week to send this out and I probably have too much fun doing so. :)

# Job Threads

• Hungry Academy - get paid to learn Ruby comments
• How to get hired (or, 'The silly story of interviewing in the valley') comments
• Y Combinator Startups: Job Board
• UseTheSource Job Board

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