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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close December 23 – January 22, 2010 785 stories · Vol. 10 · Catalogue 03 · Issue 22 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

A startup's "Why we use Lisp" story

What dominated January

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Google Docs vs manual typewriter

    9 of 30 days · 9 articles

  2. Technology

    Google launches utility company: Google Energy

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Amazon Cracks Open the Kindle

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 36 stories

  1. A startup's "Why we use Lisp" story

  2. Balsamiq Makes 1.6 Million with 70% Profit in 2009

  3. How Not To Promote Your New Startup

  4. Why there's no real startup culture in New York

Show 10 more
  1. Y Combinator Startup Library

  2. Engineering Your Way To Marketing Success

  3. Can't start a business only eating a Tombstone pizza every day

  4. Humorless "North Face" Sues "South Butt" For Trademark Infringement

  5. Startup Advice in just three words

  6. How a spare server turned into Twitpic, the $1.5M+ a year startup

  7. Anniversary of the Rails/Merb Merger: So How'd It Go?

  8. Web App Business Models: User Needs and What People Pay For

  9. Swedish startup selling North Korean jeans

  10. Golden Ratio Discovered in Quantum World

Sports 23 stories

  1. My latest flash game, Robokill 2

  2. Babylonian Twins: game built in Iraq 16 years ago finally about to be released

Show 6 more
  1. Windows hole discovered after 17 years

  2. Xkcd “Self-Description” solved with python+pygame

  3. Conway's Game Of Life in one line of APL

  4. Undressing the Terror Threat: Running the numbers and changing the game

  5. Make Your Game Easy, Then Make It Easier

  6. Things I've overheard about my Linux laptop while on public transportation

Technology 620 stories

  1. When work doesn't pay for the middle class

  2. If You’re Nervous About Quitting Your Boring Job, Don’t Do It

  3. What Is the Chinese Economic Model?

Show 9 more
  1. Why I prefer no tabs in source code

  2. A new approach to China

  3. The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures

  4. Surprises from numerical linear algebra

  5. I Have No Talent

  6. Realism in UI Design

  7. Forensic analysis of recent Victoria's Secret photo

  8. How Do You Look When Merging Fails

  9. A successful Git branching model

Entertainment 21 stories

  1. Google Hack Attack Was Ultra Sophisticated, New Details Show

  2. Show HN: My latest pet project, pydroid

Show 6 more
  1. Will single founders please stand up? (Musical edition.)

  2. How we created the world's best low-latency video streaming system

  3. Show HN: My exercise bike hooked up to an xbox - pedal faster to drive faster.

  4. A Peek Into Netflix Queues

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

  6. Calculating 316 Million Movie Correlations in 2 Minutes (Down From 2.5 Hours)

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