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1.The Government's $200,000 Useless Android Application (gun.io)
504 points by Mizza on Nov 22, 2011 | 158 comments
2.Welcome to the new web. (whatwg.org)
481 points by dkulchenko on Nov 22, 2011 | 110 comments
3.Open Source (Almost) Everything (preston-werner.com)
445 points by mojombo on Nov 22, 2011 | 83 comments
4.The price of a messy codebase: No LaTeX on the iPad (vallettaventures.tumblr.com)
328 points by steeleduncan on Nov 22, 2011 | 242 comments
5.Traveling, Writing and Programming (alexmaccaw.co.uk)
284 points by maccman on Nov 22, 2011 | 116 comments
6.Forth Inventor Chuck Moore's $20 144 core CPU now in full production (greenarraychips.com)
271 points by csmeder on Nov 22, 2011 | 93 comments
7.Twelve Factors of Web Application Development (12factor.net)
250 points by Jd on Nov 22, 2011 | 37 comments
8.The Hushed Dangers of Startup Depression (betabeat.com)
242 points by bproper on Nov 22, 2011 | 102 comments
9.Microsoft, Apple and Others Withdrawal Support for SOPA (informationweek.com)
219 points by JDulin on Nov 22, 2011 | 51 comments
10.Carmack: Parallel Implementations (altdevblogaday.com)
218 points by swah on Nov 22, 2011 | 21 comments
11.Tell HN: I want to teach you web development. In 8 weeks. For free (sort of)
195 points by kabuks on Nov 22, 2011 | 139 comments
12.RIP, Anne McCaffrey (tor.com)
177 points by DiabloD3 on Nov 22, 2011 | 34 comments
13.Carrier IQ Tries to Censor Research With Baseless Legal Threat (eff.org)
156 points by wglb on Nov 22, 2011 | 31 comments
14.Scala Feels like EJB 2 (joda.org)
141 points by thebootstrapper on Nov 22, 2011 | 117 comments
15.Tuning out: How brains benefit from meditation (medicalxpress.com)
142 points by 6ren on Nov 22, 2011 | 105 comments

Fine. "6 hours maximum", says the author, for an app translated into English and Spanish that interfaces with a remote database and performs some user-initiated calculations, and also has a bunch of static pages. Before starting you must consult with at least a dozen people who know very little about Android and succinctly describe the capabilities of the smartphone and what sorts of applications are even possible. Finally you must provide documentation.

Ready? Go! Keep track of your hours...

I installed the app. It works fine. Responsive, fast, no problems. I have two minor quibbles with the design, but they are minor. Does what it says on the box. Not an exciting piece of software, but... Has even one person commenting on this thread installed it except me? No? Didn't think so. "It's a piece of crap" says a highly self-interested blogger, and Hacker News jumps on that like starving dogs on Alpo.

17.Electronic contact lens displays pixels on the eyes (newscientist.com)
125 points by illdave on Nov 22, 2011 | 66 comments
18.Google Just Snuck Most of Chrome OS Onto the iPad (thenextweb.com)
122 points by evo_9 on Nov 22, 2011 | 40 comments
19.Esther Dyson vs Bill Campbell: 2002 − 2012 (longbets.org)
121 points by ryanmahoski on Nov 22, 2011 | 75 comments
20.GitHire (githire.com)
120 points by wolfparade on Nov 22, 2011 | 82 comments
21.Heroku Postgres: SQL Database-as-a-Service (heroku.com)
112 points by tilt on Nov 22, 2011 | 57 comments
22.Universal Music Sues Grooveshark for 100,000 Illegal Uploads (time.com)
102 points by maqr on Nov 22, 2011 | 74 comments
23.Manufacturing bombshell: AMD cancels 28nm APUs, starts from scratch at TSMC (extremetech.com)
100 points by DigiHound on Nov 22, 2011 | 24 comments
24.Forward Secrecy for Google HTTPS (imperialviolet.org)
97 points by dpeck on Nov 22, 2011 | 19 comments
25.More spring cleaning out of season at Google (googleblog.blogspot.com)
90 points by fanfantm on Nov 22, 2011 | 26 comments
26.Backbone vs Knockout (lostechies.com)
89 points by philbo on Nov 22, 2011 | 61 comments
27.Google Groups hacked; spammers are moving your posts and adding SEO keywords (groups.google.com)
87 points by stickfigure on Nov 22, 2011 | 21 comments
28.Non-terminating compilation in Java (gist.github.com)
84 points by DanielRibeiro on Nov 22, 2011 | 43 comments
29.UnConj (clojure.com)
83 points by llambda on Nov 22, 2011 | 19 comments

In the government agency where I work, $200k would actually be considered very reasonable for a steaming pile of shit. We've paid many times that amount and sometimes the shit wasn't even lukewarm, let alone steaming. Believe it or not, we often spend $150 to $200k or more just to make the decision about whether or not we're going to invest in a particular pile of shit.

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