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31.		Why Wine Ratings Are Badly Flawed (wsj.com)
		32 points by tshtf on Nov 17, 2009 \| 43 comments
32.		You hardly ever fail because of your CTO (businessinsider.com)
		33 points by fromedome on Nov 17, 2009 \| 11 comments
33.		You should stay for the sprints. (ericholscher.com)
		30 points by ericholscher on Nov 17, 2009 \| 2 comments
34.		Rackspace introduces Cloud Drive and Server Backup (rackspace.com)
		27 points by timf on Nov 17, 2009 \| 16 comments
35.		You Don't Know Jack About Software Maintenance (acm.org)
		26 points by nreece on Nov 17, 2009 \| 3 comments
36.		The awesome power of pretending (russelldavies.typepad.com)
		26 points by blasdel on Nov 17, 2009 \| 3 comments
37.		Announcing Markdoc (zacharyvoase.com)
		26 points by zacharyvoase on Nov 17, 2009 \| 7 comments
38.		Ask HN: Guido van Rossum's comment about go and scratch
		24 points by zeynel1 on Nov 17, 2009 \| 26 comments
39.		What happens when you bring a 22 year old Mac to the Genius bar? (gizmodo.com)
		23 points by keltecp11 on Nov 17, 2009 \| 13 comments
40.		Ask HN: How about this idea, a 'friends of HN server' ?
		23 points by jacquesm on Nov 17, 2009 \| 34 comments
41.		The Global Oil Scam: 50 Times Bigger than Madoff (seekingalpha.com)
		23 points by known on Nov 17, 2009 \| 20 comments
42.		See the ISS fly over ...
		23 points by RiderOfGiraffes on Nov 17, 2009 \| 7 comments
43.		How to DoS a federal wiretap (techworld.com)
		23 points by dreemteem on Nov 17, 2009 \| 3 comments
44.		Ask HN: Better deals - ruder customers?
		22 points by bilch on Nov 17, 2009 \| 8 comments
45.		Paul Allen diagnosed with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma (techflash.com)
		21 points by eugenejen on Nov 17, 2009 \| 5 comments
46.		Online Subscription Billing Is A Pain. Recurly Wants To Alleviate It. (techcrunch.com)
		21 points by transburgh on Nov 17, 2009 \| 23 comments
47.		Big productions: Why 'Fail Early, Fail Often' Is The Wrong Approach (gamasutra.com)
		22 points by pushingbits on Nov 17, 2009 \| 11 comments
48.		Palm Gives Up. Latest Palm Pre update drops support for iTunes syncing (networkworld.com)
		20 points by anderzole on Nov 17, 2009 \| 9 comments
49.		Fedora 12 Constantine is out (release notes) (fedoraproject.org)
		19 points by mapleoin on Nov 17, 2009 \| 3 comments
50.		Kindle set to hit Canada (theglobeandmail.com)
		19 points by dmix on Nov 17, 2009 \| 10 comments
51.		The Buyout Of America -- How PE will cause the next great credit crisis (wsj.com)
		18 points by white_eskimo on Nov 17, 2009 \| 6 comments
52.		Google Analytics Intelligence (analytics.blogspot.com)
		18 points by LostInTheWoods on Nov 17, 2009 \| 3 comments
53.		Jason Calacanis To Start New Angel Group (pehub.com)
		16 points by quant on Nov 17, 2009 \| 4 comments
54.		Notmuch: command-line email search and tagging (keithp.com)
		15 points by mbrubeck on Nov 17, 2009 \| 1 comment
55.		Goldman, Buffett Establish $500 Million Small-Business Program (bloomberg.com)
		21 points by rjett on Nov 17, 2009 \| 4 comments
56.		J - A modern, high-level, general-purpose, high-performance programming language (jsoftware.com)
		15 points by jayro on Nov 17, 2009 \| 11 comments
57.		Nathan Myhrvold hires 15 people to create a 1,500 page...cookbook? (nytimes.com)
		14 points by smharris65 on Nov 17, 2009
58.		Don’t Roll out the Red Carpet on the Way out the Door (bothsidesofthetable.com)
		14 points by swombat on Nov 17, 2009
59.		The Dark Side of Incentives (businessweek.com)
		13 points by cwan on Nov 17, 2009 \| 1 comment
60.		Google SPDY Protocol Would Require Mass Change in Infrastructure (f5.com)
		13 points by lmacvittie on Nov 17, 2009 \| 12 comments
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