Hacker News on 8 October 2009

• So...what the hell's wrong with you, Shooter?
• What I've Earned (And Learned) From Writing a Ruby Programming Book
• Google’s Abandoned Library of 700 Million Titles: Usenet
• Get Out of My Building
• First Pictures Of Single Window Gimp
• I Wouldn't Hire a Programmer With No Interest in Programming Outside of Work
• Ask HN: How do you concentrate?
• Digitizing speech on a piano
• Shark Eats Entrepreneur Alive
• Minimizing Complexity In User Interfaces