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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close July 8 – July 15, 2008 194 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 29 · Issue 197 Get it by email ↓
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Why you should never be a startup girlfriend

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Business 12 stories

  1. Why you should never be a startup girlfriend

  2. Ridiculous Small-Business Plan Encouraged By Friends

  3. Controlled experiment in futures markets: onions

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  1. Federation at Flickr: Doing Billions of Queries Per Day

  2. Why Project Management is important to startups (notes from Niel Robertson talk)

  3. Female CEOs at top Silicon Valley tech firms down to zero

  4. Giving Shit Away is not a Business Strategy

Sports 7 stories

  1. Play this game for 20 minutes - learn about concurrency

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  1. AI beats human poker champions

  2. Chatterous (YC winter '08) raises angel round to integrate email, IM and SMS

  3. Computational Complexity of Games and Puzzles

Technology 160 stories

  1. 10 Incredibly Awesome Documents to Help You Start a Company

  2. How to Write with Style (Kurt Vonnegut)

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  1. Apple just gave out my Apple ID password because someone asked

  2. Learning from "bad" UI (37signals on TripLog)

  3. Worst Idea Ever: SSHKeygen.com

  4. Python best practices

  5. The early days: How 37signals built buzz out of the gate

Entertainment 6 stories

  1. Who Needs Music Labels? Last.fm Starts Paying Royalties To Unsigned Artists

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  1. Blender: far from a toy, it can produce beautiful 3D images and movies (and it's free)

  2. Brain scans show "sleeping on a problem" at work

  3. Andreessen: "If you own newspapers, sell. If you own TV stations, sell..."

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