Hacker News on 14 January 2009

• Joel Spolsky: Thanks or No Thanks
• The real cause of the financial crisis -- An MIT Blackjack Team perspective
• Apple: Jobs to Take Medical Leave of Absence
• The $300 Million Button
• JQuery 1.3 Released
• Qt 4.5 will be released under the LGPL
• ISteam for iPhone earns a bunch of 22-year olds $100,000 in one month
• Why Haskell is beyond ready for Prime Time
• Things I Learned the Hard Way: Ignore the Content
• XKCD inspired Mac Mini speech synth hack