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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 6 – October 6, 2009 804 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 41 · Issue 279 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

How to run a small consultancy / freelancing business

1Outlets
1Articles

What dominated October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    How not to test that mysqld is alive

    8 of 30 days · 12 articles

  2. Technology

    Looking into the future with Cassandra

    7 of 30 days · 9 articles

  3. Technology

    Create a font from your own handwriting

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 40 stories

  1. How to run a small consultancy / freelancing business

  2. Working for startups sucks, you'll be happier working for The Man

  3. Mark Zuckerberg: The evolution of a remarkable CEO

  4. Fundable comes to an ugly end

Show 10 more
  1. Flash Professional CS5 will build native iPhone and iPod Touch applications

  2. @2gov - Visas for startup founders movement

  3. The trouble with non-profits

  4. When It Comes To Founding Successful Startups, Old Guys Rule

  5. The Best Deal In Startup Land

  6. What I Learned From My Failed Startup

  7. TC50 Backstage: Why PG Was Mean and Which YC Companies Will IPO

  8. Child-safety software sells kids' IM conversations to market-research companies

  9. Startup Bootcamp: October 12th at MIT with many YC speakers

  10. Twitter Closing New Venture Round At $1 Billion Valuation

Sports 26 stories

  1. How Tim Schafer Broke Into the Game Industry: A Legendary Cover Letter

  2. Judge Orders Google To Deactivate User's Gmail Account and Disclose Identity

Show 6 more
  1. Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time

  2. The end of AI winter?

  3. ACM 20 Most Influential Papers on Programming Languages [tarball]

  4. Why aeroplane wings aren't dimpled like golf balls

  5. John Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace "wins" Lunar Lander Challenge [video]

  6. Google Releases A Nuke. Apple Won’t Win This Fight.

Technology 611 stories

  1. The Duct Tape Programmer

  2. Writing a DSL with Python

  3. Grand Central Dispatch Now Open to All

Show 9 more
  1. Courier - Microsoft's Secret Tablet?

  2. How not to test that mysqld is alive

  3. Looking into the future with Cassandra

  4. Norman Borlaug on Organic Farming

  5. A terrible tragedy: Dan Haubert of Ticketstumbler (fallentimes) has passed away

  6. Yeah Ok, So Facebook Punk’d Us

  7. When a co-founder dies

  8. This Is a Photoshop and It Blew My Mind - Photosketch

  9. Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm

Entertainment 11 stories

  1. Aaron Swartz shows his FBI file

  2. Grand Prize Awarded To BellKor Pragmatic Chaos

Show 6 more
  1. Netflix Prize Movie Similarity Visualization

  2. Netflix's tail massage

  3. Tell HN: Paul Graham on TC50 panel, streaming live

  4. Justin.tv founders named as top 30 under 30 by Inc.

  5. 7 ways I’ve almost killed FreshBooks

  6. Music Sales

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