Hacker News on 14 July 2008

• How to Write with Style (Kurt Vonnegut)
• The early days: How 37signals built buzz out of the gate
• Stop Using FTP
• Expired links should be less common
• Project Cassandra: Facebook's Open Source Alternative to Google BigTable
• Why programmers should play Go
• Engine Yard takes $15m Series B Round from NEA, Amazon and Benchmark
• How I got into iPhone development
• Review of "ANSI Common Lisp"
• GitHub implementing Erlang git-daemon