Hacker News on 25 October 2007

• Joel: Five Easy Ways to Fail (in a Software Project)
• Why Specialists are Grumpy and Generalists are Happy
• News.YC detrimental to hacking?
• Programming Habits
• The Blub Paradox also applies to editors/IDEs
• Using Lisp at Paragent
• AI winter
• The "$15 Billion" Nonsense
• Surprising Uses of the Pythagorean Theorem
• Has anyone formed an S Corp and then converted to a C Corp later