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2008-04-05
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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close March 29 – April 5, 2008 156 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 14 · Issue 96 Get it by email ↓
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Lessons of Y Combinator: Things I’d do differently after 2 startups

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Business 16 stories

  1. Lessons of Y Combinator: Things I’d do differently after 2 startups

  2. Andrew Chen: Your ad-supported Web 2.0 startup is really a B2B enterprise in disguise

  3. Startup Advice for Hacker News Founders

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  1. Gold: Google Releases New and Improved GCC Linker

  2. TheFunded Founder Gives Startups Some Advice

  3. A Plan for Scams: A proposal to put 419 scammers out of business for good

  4. Wall Street Stole My Smart Friends

Sports 10 stories

  1. Growing a Language by Guy Steele

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  1. Y Combinator - Advice for applicants. (from Mixwit, Winter 08)

  2. Fluid Mechanics in Game Programming

  3. Designed for Microsoft Windows

Technology 119 stories

  1. Some Heroes

  2. Paul Buchheit: Ideas vs Judgment and Execution: Climbing the Mountain

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  1. Disagreeing with Paul Graham

  2. Google putting up fence and gate to keep execs from leaving

  3. Free is Killing Us. Blame The VCs

  4. More data usually beats better algorithms

  5. Percent of population with a college degree, by country

Entertainment 5 stories

  1. Songkick wants to be the home of live music online

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  1. Have laptops killed the desktop? (Dell closing factory in Austin)

  2. Music File Compressed 1,000 Times Smaller than MP3

  3. One guy, a film scanner, OCR and a lot of disks = 6 million pages of historical newspapers on line.

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