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1.Nokia faked the still photos too (sefsar.com)
295 points by peritpatrio on Sept 6, 2012 | 116 comments
2.The Linux Graphics Stack (mecheye.net)
284 points by Adrock on Sept 6, 2012 | 38 comments
3.How Google Builds Its Maps (theatlantic.com)
281 points by bcrawl on Sept 6, 2012 | 109 comments
4.Amazon Officially Announces The New Kindle Paperwhite (techcrunch.com)
231 points by aaronbrethorst on Sept 6, 2012 | 175 comments
5.Why You Should Start Using a VPN (lifehacker.com)
216 points by iProject on Sept 6, 2012 | 126 comments
6.No app store? No problem: Grooveshark rolls out full HTML5 site for all devices (venturebeat.com)
212 points by zoowar on Sept 6, 2012 | 129 comments
7.Raspberry Pi moves manufacturing to the UK (raspberrypi.org)
202 points by iamdann on Sept 6, 2012 | 67 comments
8.Y Combinator Founder Paul Graham Issues New Warning to Start-ups (inc.com)
188 points by azazo on Sept 6, 2012 | 56 comments
9.Ask PG: If Viaweb hadn't worked out, what would you have likely done next?
187 points by Snail_Commando on Sept 6, 2012 | 43 comments
10.Stop validating email addresses with your complex regex (davidcelis.com)
184 points by davidcelis on Sept 6, 2012 | 148 comments
11.Faced with a Five-Page Limit, Lawyer Files Cartoon Amicus Brief (abajournal.com)
172 points by bootload on Sept 6, 2012 | 59 comments
12.After 35 years, Voyager nears edge of solar system (npr.org)
161 points by dirktheman on Sept 6, 2012 | 48 comments
13.DeveloperAuction gets developers paid what they're worth (techcrunch.com)
155 points by allangrant on Sept 6, 2012 | 138 comments
14.Why Don’t Americans Elect Scientists? (nytimes.com)
128 points by charbonnelb on Sept 6, 2012 | 143 comments
15.TSA Moves On From Your Underwear to Your Starbucks (wired.com)
114 points by spathak on Sept 6, 2012 | 109 comments
16.Best Practices for c# async/await (jonwagner.com)
106 points by jonwagner on Sept 6, 2012 | 9 comments
17.Jimmy Wales threatens to encrypt Wikipedia if UK passes snooping bill (arstechnica.com)
100 points by throwaway1979 on Sept 6, 2012 | 38 comments
18.Bing vs. Google (bingiton.com)
100 points by pykello on Sept 6, 2012 | 162 comments
19.Ubuntu announces 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) Beta 1 (ubuntu.com)
97 points by cobychapple on Sept 6, 2012 | 64 comments
20.What Raising Money Means To Me (quirky.com)
91 points by jamesgolick on Sept 6, 2012 | 8 comments
21.Why Postgres (craigkerstiens.com)
91 points by jashmenn on Sept 6, 2012 | 83 comments
22.Tools to get started in machine learning (k2company.com)
89 points by nwenzel on Sept 6, 2012 | 35 comments
23.Ebay Acquires Svpply (ebayinkblog.com)
90 points by coupdegrace on Sept 6, 2012 | 42 comments
24.</CaptureTheFlag> (stripe.com)
84 points by janzer on Sept 6, 2012 | 20 comments
25.Amazon’s new Kindle Paperwhite e-reader comes with frontlit screen (arstechnica.com)
84 points by taylorbuley on Sept 6, 2012 | 32 comments
26.The Introvert's Networking Survival Guide: Large Events (samuelmullen.com)
82 points by samullen on Sept 6, 2012 | 14 comments
27.Being honest with myself: my journey to learning how to code (zackshapiro.com)
84 points by kine on Sept 6, 2012 | 29 comments

I don't think I had a backup plan at the time. I suppose I would have gone back to consulting and writing books. Maybe after a while I would have tried to start another company. That would have been hard, though, because if Viaweb hadn't worked out it would have been hard to talk Robert Morris into trying again.

I was pretty excited about Web apps, which were a new thing then. (We planned eventually to make a whole suite of them; Viaweb Store was just the first.) So I probably would have worked on those in some way. Maybe I would have written some sort of general platform for building them, and/or written a book about that topic.

29.Steam Linux Beta Build Surfaces In Steam’s Database (thepowerbase.com)
73 points by glazemaster on Sept 6, 2012 | 14 comments

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/578446_101510870...

A friend of mine shot this in Helsinki. Low lighting conditions, Nokia style.


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