Hacker News on 30 July 2009

• Microsoft’s Long, Slow Decline
• "All I do is work here"
• How To Live (Comfortably) on $36 A Month For Food
• Teen Decomposes Plastic Bag In 3 Months
• GNU Emacs 23.1 has been released
• Confessions of a Math Idiot
• He’s Only in Field Service
• Successful officeless game studio tells its secrets
• "We are more possible than you can powerfully imagine"
• It's hard to like Android.