Hacker News on 19 December 2008

• Clickpass (YC S07) is being acquired
• Java in College: "You might as well be teaching Chinese to a monkey."
• It's A Dirty Job, And I Love It
• Evan - Twitter needs a better policy on Usernames
• A Home Office FAQ
• Everybody is faking it.
• Coding Horror: Hardware is Cheap, Programmers are Expensive
• Markopolous' (ignored) complaint to SEC describing Madoff's fund as Ponzi scheme
• 10 is the one
• Ask HN: Interesting recent developments in academic computer science.