Hacker News on 23 December 2008

• Rails and Merb Merge
• Ask YC: Let's start a Hacker News book club
• Your idea sucks, now go do it anyway
• How to Prototype a Game in Under 7 Days (by the World of Goo people)
• Merb gets merged into Rails 3
• Long URLs Please
• Why Learning Haskell/Python Makes You a Worse Programmer
• Diary of a Self-Help Dropout: Flirting With the 4-Hour Workweek
• Ask HN: How do you deal with mental illness?
• The Day Merb Joined Rails