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1.Anatomy of a Crushing (pinboard.in)
490 points by mbrubeck on March 8, 2011 | 68 comments
2.The State of Version Control: an Infographic (fogcreek.com)
244 points by gecko on March 8, 2011 | 191 comments
3.Why Angry Birds is so successful and popular? (mauronewmedia.com)
226 points by tuhin on March 8, 2011 | 76 comments
4.Life at a startup (abstractnonsense.com)
226 points by emmett on March 8, 2011 | 44 comments
5.Apple Keyboard in pure CSS. (dropbox.com)
201 points by sahillavingia on March 8, 2011 | 41 comments
6.Zed Shaw: Launchpad vs. Github/SysAdmin vs. Coder (sheddingbikes.com)
179 points by thesethings on March 8, 2011 | 64 comments

Way to steal my karma.... :)

As the original author of this, I was going to put it into a much more presentable state before showing it off here.

For those confused, here's a proper explanation. No real-world thing can actually be Turing complete (able to express basically any computation that we might want to perform of any size). That's because there are finitely many atoms in the universe, so we can only construct machines of finite size.

It's well known that Rule 110 (Google it) is Turing Compete.

What I've done is made an implementation of Rule 110 in HTML and CSS. Since CSS can't actually really manipulate state, some user interaction is required to "drive" it. In the one that bgruber linked to, it's clicking.

Here's a bigger version that doesn't require the user to know where to put his mouse. The tab-space combo is just as legitimate as requiring that you plug a computer into a wall to power it in order to run a Java program. http://elilies.com/rule110-full.html

Also, I haven't tested it on anything besides the latest Chrome on Mac.

8.Goliath: Non-blocking, Ruby 1.9 Web Server (igvita.com)
167 points by igrigorik on March 8, 2011 | 25 comments
9.High court challenge to law that puts public-domain works back under copyright (eff.org)
166 points by grellas on March 8, 2011 | 29 comments
10.CoffeeScript: The beautiful way to write JavaScript (amix.dk)
156 points by jashkenas on March 8, 2011 | 82 comments
11.HTML + CSS3 is Turing complete (github.com/elitheeli)
152 points by bgruber on March 8, 2011 | 87 comments
12.Epic Games shows jaw-dropping graphics for next-generation consoles (venturebeat.com)
141 points by evo_9 on March 8, 2011 | 119 comments
13.Dealing with burn-out (jacquesmattheij.com)
139 points by vijaydev on March 8, 2011 | 42 comments
14.New Facebook Feature Empowers the Dangerous "Comment Nazis" (vortex.com)
125 points by kgarten on March 8, 2011 | 121 comments
15.Like.fm (YC W11) Is A Social Network For Tracking Songs (techcrunch.com)
120 points by chrischen on March 8, 2011 | 68 comments
16.Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: Braintree (37signals.com)
110 points by benmills on March 8, 2011 | 25 comments
17.Adobe releases Flash to HTML5 converter (thenextweb.com)
106 points by siddhant on March 8, 2011 | 51 comments
18.Competitive Start Fund (CSF) - Enterprise Ireland (enterprise-ireland.com)
105 points by mcgeadyd on March 8, 2011 | 69 comments
19.Are "teens" born or made? An interesting twist. (thesocietypages.org)
99 points by ChuckMcM on March 8, 2011 | 104 comments
20.Facebook Disconnect - chrome extension to disable Facebook tracking (chrome.google.com)
99 points by squarepeg on March 8, 2011 | 37 comments
21.Sinatra in 8 lines (github.com/rkh)
97 points by jackowayed on March 8, 2011 | 29 comments
22.Android now more profitable than iOS for well-known game developer (computerworld.com)
94 points by sadiq on March 8, 2011 | 35 comments

"You have one identity. The days of you having a different image for your work friends or co-workers and for the other people you know are probably coming to an end pretty quickly … Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity."

It's not a lack of integrity - what people say and how people act is always based on the context it's in. There are things you'd say to your friends that you wouldn't say to your family or even other friends. It's always been this way, and it's pretty arrogant for Mark and, consequently, Facebook to assume otherwise.

This has actually pretty much pushed me off Facebook, as the only stuff I post is what falls in the relatively small subset of stuff I'd tell to my family, coworkers, boss, friends, and people that I know online.

24.Work has started on the next generation of Apache web server (h-online.com)
89 points by Tsiolkovsky on March 8, 2011 | 35 comments
25.Gain control of a Linux System via an USB-Device due to strcpy (h-online.com)
86 points by mrud on March 8, 2011 | 54 comments

I have to agree. This post and the survey results do not really meet my standards for accuracy, so I've taken then down while we rework it.
27.Weekend deployments are for chumps (bitquabit.com)
93 points by rockhymas on March 8, 2011 | 41 comments
28.Redis: under the hood (pauladamsmith.com)
85 points by cannedprimates on March 8, 2011 | 12 comments
29.Why Puppet Should Manage Your Infrastructure (engineyard.com)
78 points by twampss on March 8, 2011 | 40 comments
30.Baltimore Is Getting Its First Startup Incubator (bmoremedia.com)
72 points by llimllib on March 8, 2011 | 62 comments

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