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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 7 – December 7, 2009 782 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 50 · Issue 341 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

The best questions we got while raising venture capital

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1Articles

What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    The Ruby Revolution is Over

    7 of 30 days · 10 articles

  2. Technology

    The Go Programming Language

    6 of 30 days · 7 articles

  3. Technology

    There is a certain inevitability to life.

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 49 stories

  1. The best questions we got while raising venture capital

  2. Awesome Visualisations of Choose Your Own Adventure books

  3. Time-lapse map of unemployment rates by U.S. county during recession

  4. HD Videos from Startup Bootcamp at MIT now online

Show 10 more
  1. Professional Hacks: Tricks of the Trade

  2. Frequently Forgotten Fundamental Facts about Software Engineering

  3. Reddit decommissions its last Y Combinator funded server

  4. Sprint fed customer GPS data to police over 8 million times

  5. Startup ideas

  6. Keep Your Startup Virtual

  7. FlightCaster (YC S09) Takes Off With $1.3 Million In Funding And A New API

  8. Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 1: Are Those My Initials?

  9. Geeks trump alpha males on Wall Street

  10. Smashing the stack for fun and profit

Sports 28 stories

  1. Things Worth Knowing About Coffee

  2. Canabalt: iPhone Game

Show 6 more
  1. Webapp: image recognition to find nearest tennis courts from satellite photos

  2. The Gervais Principle II: Posturetalk, Powertalk, Babytalk and Gametalk

  3. How Pinball Ate itself: The Economics of Pinball

  4. At peak, Spain gets 53% of its energy from wind

  5. Flixel: flash game framework

  6. Carmack says Apple is not proud of the iPhone being a game machine

Technology 589 stories

  1. Getting it wrong over coffee

  2. Don Dodge hired by Google

  3. Apple's Mistake

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  1. The End Of The CrunchPad

  2. There is a certain inevitability to life.

  3. The Go Programming Language

  4. One of my favorite professors in college was a self-confessed liar

  5. A graphical comparison between employees, freelancers and makers.

  6. Why I gave away my company to charity

  7. Your looks and your inbox

  8. Welcome to HN. Please, read 'Hacker News Guidelines.' We take them seriously.

  9. Wakemate (YC S09) helps you kiss groggy mornings goodbye

Entertainment 14 stories

  1. Shit My Dad Says Gets a TV Deal after 72 tweets

  2. Copyright Time Bomb Set to Disrupt Music, Publishing Industries

Show 6 more
  1. Spotify artists earn $167 per 1 million plays.

  2. From PlayStation to Y Combinator: The Reddit Origin Story, Part 1

  3. Ridiculous User Interfaces In Film, and the Man Who Designs Them

  4. Jobs to The Little App Factory: Name change “Not that big of a deal”

  5. Renttherunway.com - Netflix for dresses

  6. Baumol's Cost Disease: Why Artists are Always Poor

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