Hacker News on 4 October 2009

• Flipping is Good. (aka Memo to Jason Fried: Sorry, You're Fucking Wrong.)
• Work Less, Get More Done: Analytics For Maximizing Productivity
• Why dumb toys make kids smarter
• There Are More Slaves Today Than at Any Time in Human History
• Bitbucket: On our extended downtime with Amazon
• You Can't Do What You Want By Doing Something Else
• The Bipolar Lisp Programmer (an oldie but a goodie)
• Drupal Sucks
• SQL Databases Don't Scale
• Will California become America's first failed state?