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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close January 10 – January 17, 2009 173 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 03 · Issue 17 Get it by email ↓
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Business 11 stories

  1. More startups fail from a lack of customers than from a failure of product development

  2. Fuck college education, start minding your own business instead

  3. Skype legend Morten Lund bankrupt

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  1. Startup cofounder lives with his website users

  2. In the gig economy, everyone is a hustler

  3. Twitter May Have Found Its Business Model

  4. Environmentalist Creates Uproar at Oil-Lease Auction by Running Up Prices

Sports 5 stories

  1. Heyzap Vies To Become A YouTube For Flash Games (YC W09)

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  1. Coding Horror Strikes Again (RE: Windows 7 UI)

  2. Google Closes Offices in in Austin, Texas; Trondheim, Norway; and Lulea, Sweden.

  3. Why Table Tennis is a Great Hacker Sport

Technology 146 stories

  1. Joel Spolsky: Thanks or No Thanks

  2. The real cause of the financial crisis -- An MIT Blackjack Team perspective

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  1. Lazy Linux: essential tricks for admins

  2. Apple: Jobs to Take Medical Leave of Absence

  3. Web Hosting’s Dirty Laundry

  4. Advice from a once burnt-out programmer

  5. Why I Hate Frameworks

Entertainment 4 stories

  1. Hulu CEO: "We screwed up royally"

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  1. Noteflight: start-up that lets you compose music within your browser

  2. Ask HN: Would you fund this show?

  3. Youtube starts muting videos with copyrighted music

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