Hacker News on 29 November 2009

• Performance comparison between EC2, Slicehost, Linode, Rackspace Cloud, Prgmr
• Aaron Swartz: How I Hire Programmers
• The confessions of a semi-successful author
• Erlang for Skeptics
• You'll never get what you want
• On Becoming a Quant
• Richard Dawkins: Viruses of the Mind
• How many problems does this solution create?
• Data Mining with R
• CRU Admits to Dumping Raw Climate Data