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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close December 29 – January 5, 2009 174 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 02 · Issue 5 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Joel Spolsky's resume tip for startup applicants

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Business 19 stories

  1. Joel Spolsky's resume tip for startup applicants

  2. Philip Greenspun's Economy Recovery Plan

  3. Startup lessons from serial entrepreneur Norm Brodsky

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  1. Large Form iPod Touch To Launch in Fall ‘09

  2. Startup now 100% on AWS (they're using AMQP, PostgreSQL, pgpool-II and Rails)

  3. More about Google's commodity servers

  4. Cuil on Business Week list of most successful companies of 2008

Sports 5 stories

  1. Coding Horror: Finishing The Game

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  1. If you love Windows XP, you’ll hate Windows 7

  2. How Sony inadvertently helped a competitor and lost position in the videogame market

  3. Growing Up is Hard

Technology 142 stories

  1. Roll your own toy UNIX-clone OS

  2. Joel on Software: The new Fog Creek Office

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  1. English-Prime - English without "is"

  2. Creating a rogue CA certificate with MD5 hash collisions

  3. Unusual disk latency

  4. Overnight success takes a long time

  5. Water-lensed eyeglasses offer promise of sight for millions

Entertainment 4 stories

  1. Enjoying the show, avoiding the flamethrower: life inside Apple

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  1. Spotify, An Alternative to Music Piracy

  2. Is your Netflix queue destroying the environment?

  3. Wetware Refactorings

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