Hacker News on 22 December 2009

• I hired 50 people today. This is what they look like
• How To Rise Fast At Work: A True Story
• CSS Techniques I Wish I Knew When I Started Designing Websites
• Court: Microsoft violated patent; can't sell Word
• Thorium, the New Green Nuke
• SF author Greg Egan reviews Avatar
• The world’s hardest (for native English speakers) languages
• Google’s ‘Meaning of Open’
• Stop being a productivity nerd, and chill out
• Portrait of a Noob