Hacker News on 18 January 2009

• Why Google Employees Quit
• Why Hacker News Thinks PHP Won Something
• JQuery is a monad
• A Gentle Introduction to Programming Using Python
• The lost cult of Microsoft program managers
• Mind Hacks: Breaking the news of Eliza's creator's death to her
• Evolving a better keyboard layout
• The week Garfield died. Analysis & comics
• Free bananas in the kitchen!!! (what happens when reply-all goes amok)
• Full-Time Startup: Skribit Week 2