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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 15 – December 15, 2010 816 stories · Vol. 10 · Catalogue 50 · Issue 349 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

How I Screwed Up My Google Acquisition

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What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Editing Google Docs in Emacs

    8 of 30 days · 13 articles

  2. Technology

    Hacker News' Reading Level

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    Which programming language do you want to learn next?

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

Business 52 stories

  1. How I Screwed Up My Google Acquisition

  2. Allegations of FBI crypto backdoors in OpenBSD IPSEC

  3. Startup Ideas Every Nerd Has (That Never Work)

  4. BankSimple Launches Preview Site

Show 10 more
  1. How I Incorporated My Startup

  2. The best investment advice you'll never get

  3. Small startup hits Google paydirt

  4. Startup Lessons, Courtesy of United Airlines’ Crappy Customer Service

  5. How being a bully fuels this trader's profits because of Google

  6. How much startup stock options are worth

  7. Apple’s iOS 4.2 Available Today for iPad, iPhone & iPod touch

  8. How to destroy your business with one email

  9. WikiLeaks Will Unveil Major Bank Scandal in Early 2011

  10. Review my startup: Tastebuds - dating for last.fm users

Sports 30 stories

  1. Wik-Bee Leaks: EPA Knowingly Allowed Pesticide That Kills Honey Bees

  2. Close the Washington Monument

Show 6 more
  1. A Google Interviewing Story

  2. Beekeeper Who Leaked EPA Documents: "I Don't Think We Can Survive This Winter"

  3. AI Sports Journalist Covers Every Division I College Basketball Team

  4. Google AI Challenge Winner Post-Mortem

  5. Today's Coding Interview Game

  6. Oracle in conflict with another open source project?

Technology 608 stories

  1. The Ruby Stdlib is a Ghetto

  2. Humble Indie Bundle #2 is out

  3. Lisp compiler in 89 lines of Python

Show 9 more
  1. Amazon no longer hosts wikileaks

  2. Today you, tomorrow me

  3. Google Beatbox

  4. Salesforce Buys Heroku (YC W08) For $212 Million In Cash

  5. Why Do Google Maps’s City Labels Seem So Readable?

  6. Everest is littered with dead, exposed bodies

  7. Ben the Bodyguard: Gorgeous HTML5 Website

  8. How Israel handles airport security

  9. What Does it Mean to Work Hard?

Entertainment 18 stories

  1. Comcast demands Level 3 pay fee to deliver online movies to their subscribers

  2. Author Slams eBook Piracy, Son Outs Her As a Music Pirate

Show 6 more
  1. Mathematical explanation of music and white/black notes in a piano

  2. What kind of traffic is driven by a single mention of a domain on network TV?

  3. Judge in Xbox modding trial berates prosecution, halts trial

  4. Show HN: A Genetic Algorithm I wrote in JavaScript to evolve "Hello World"

  5. Level 3 outbid Akamai on Netflix by reselling stolen bandwidth

  6. "Do you listen to music while coding?" An analysis.

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