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S-Q-L
766 points | parent
2.Today is Programmer's Day (wikipedia.org)
240 points by guffshemr on Sept 13, 2010 | 38 comments
3.Giving up on Google (robsheldon.com)
231 points by thaumaturgy on Sept 13, 2010 | 184 comments
4.How two Pythonistas accidentally fell in love with Rails (brandonbloom.name)
222 points by snprbob86 on Sept 13, 2010 | 133 comments
5.Museopen to set classical music "free" (arstechnica.com)
172 points by sp332 on Sept 13, 2010 | 62 comments
6.How I boosted my Vim (nvie.com)
164 points by jkreeftmeijer on Sept 13, 2010 | 65 comments
7.Job Titles That Can Sink Your Startup (steveblank.com)
166 points by amirmc on Sept 13, 2010 | 38 comments
8.Dear Twitter: Stop screwing over your developers (nelhage.com)
152 points by dochtman on Sept 13, 2010 | 41 comments
9.Biolab Disaster - an HTML5 Game (plus Making-Of Video) (phoboslab.org)
146 points by phoboslab on Sept 13, 2010 | 38 comments
10.HN, Remember you said go out and talk to people? I did: InsidersTalk.com (insiderstalk.com)
138 points by snitko on Sept 13, 2010 | 53 comments
11.How the opening scenes of Blade Runner were made (video) (douglastrumbull.com)
115 points by coffee on Sept 13, 2010 | 28 comments
12.The Face of Facebook (newyorker.com)
114 points by ssclafani on Sept 13, 2010 | 41 comments
13.Poll: Sequel or S-Q-L?
113 points by j_baker on Sept 13, 2010 | 130 comments
14.Acquisition condolences (37signals.com)
108 points by johns on Sept 13, 2010 | 50 comments
15.Microsoft responds to NYT story on suppressing dissent in Russia (technet.com)
100 points by credo on Sept 13, 2010 | 38 comments

Funny, I pronounce it "ess queue ell" because it was originally called "SEQUEL". But now it's not. So it's distinct.

It's interesting how two people can use the exact same justification to come to two totally different conclusions.

17.Youtube Live Epic Failure (Plaintext DB Password Exposed)
96 points by a904guy on Sept 13, 2010 | 23 comments
18. The App Store is slow, so I built App Store Instant (appoftheday.com)
88 points by jsatok on Sept 13, 2010 | 60 comments
19.Emokit: Hacking the Emotiv EPOC Brain-Computer Interface (github.com/daeken)
86 points by daeken on Sept 13, 2010 | 18 comments
20.Nobody Understands Probability (jsteinhardt.wordpress.com)
84 points by kmod on Sept 13, 2010 | 60 comments
21.Password Reuse (xkcd.com)
83 points by billswift on Sept 13, 2010 | 46 comments
22.The Jon Stewart Decade (nymag.com)
80 points by ziweb on Sept 13, 2010 | 75 comments
23.Autocomplete with Redis (antirez.com)
78 points by thomasknowles on Sept 13, 2010 | 14 comments
24.The future of R - pessimistic thoughts by R founder Ross Ihaka (r-bloggers.com)
76 points by TalGalili on Sept 13, 2010 | 75 comments
25.Many SSD Benchmark Reviews Contain Flaws (zorinaq.com)
70 points by mrb on Sept 13, 2010 | 12 comments
26.Get started right with RVM (sirupsen.com)
69 points by Sirupsen on Sept 13, 2010 | 21 comments
27.Move to SF and hate it?
68 points by ancornwell on Sept 13, 2010 | 166 comments
28.Scott Adams: Your Next Gym (dilbert.com)
66 points by cwan on Sept 13, 2010 | 76 comments

  Mother's Day & Father's Day - 
    Their times per year is one,
  But every day is Programmer's Day
    If you want to get anything done.
30.MacRuby: The Definitive Guide (oreilly.com)
64 points by shawndumas on Sept 13, 2010 | 10 comments

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