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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close May 5 – May 12, 2009 191 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 20 · Issue 132 Get it by email ↓
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Why there's nothing special about the business of software

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Business 8 stories

  1. Why there's nothing special about the business of software

  2. EU recognizes Internet access as a fundamental right, on par with freedom of expression

  3. The App Store Is a Classic Example Of A Broken Business Process

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  1. Sony CEO: "If we had gone with Open Technology ... we would have beaten Apple"

  2. Bypassing the VC: Funding Your Business with Deferred Revenue

  3. EBay is saving archeology by killing the antiquities market

  4. Barclays hates tech startups

Sports 3 stories

  1. How to implement 'realistic' swordfighting in video games.

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  1. Nethack - Best Game Ever (2000)

  2. The Look of a Winner

Technology 168 stories

  1. Arduino hardware hacking: Part 1

  2. A brief, incomplete and mostly wrong history of programming languages

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  1. Don’t! The secret of self-control

  2. Spolsky: Why Circuit City Failed, and Why B&H Thrives

  3. Github founder on how to become a famous^Wgood Rails developer

  4. Renowned reverse engineer Fravia says goodbye

  5. Noam Chomsky: Education is Ignorance (1995)

Entertainment 3 stories

  1. We need both engineers and artists in programming

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  1. Artists Commandeer (illegal) Manhattan Billboards

  2. Justin.tv: Hundreds of channels, nothing on.

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