Hacker News on 22 December 2007

• Reliable Script Generated Email Delivery Anyone?
• Alan Kay's list of recommended reading
• Predicting the Future, by Alan Kay
• It's Harder to Read Code than to Write It
• First-person video from a radio-controlled airplane
• Solve This Puzzle to Get This Job
• Newly Discovered Design Pattern: "Code Well."
• Vista sets 2007 land-speed record for copying and deleting
• Ask YC: Deciding what programming language
• How the legacy of a dead mathematician can make you a better programmer