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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 25 – April 24, 2012 835 stories · Vol. 12 · Catalogue 17 · Issue 115 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Before naming your startup, read this.

What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    I have no idea what I'm doing

    8 of 30 days · 9 articles

  2. Technology

    The Rust Programming Language

    6 of 30 days · 7 articles

  3. Technology

    Secret Computer Code Threatens Science

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 36 stories

  1. Before naming your startup, read this.

  2. A High Frequency Trader's Apologia, Part 1

  3. OMGPOP CEO tweets: "Shay Pierce was the weakest employee on the team"

  4. The Royal Canadian Mint just announced a new alternative to BitCoin

Show 10 more
  1. Asteroid Mining Venture Backed by Google Execs, James Cameron Unveiled

  2. Bootstrapped startup saves over $100K by dropping IE

  3. Shitter: Toilet Paper of Tweets

  4. Backbone.js Fundamentals

  5. Building a Product: One month later, $119.50 in the bank

  6. GoldenEye (N64) has a fully-functional ZX Spectrum 48x emulator built into it.

  7. The JOBS Act will very nearly legalize fraud in the stock market

  8. AWS Marketplace

  9. A Guided Tour through the Fundamentals of Git

  10. Frighteningly Unambitious Startup Ideas

Sports 33 stories

  1. DuckDuckGo is blowing up

  2. Wind Map

Show 6 more
  1. The Beer Game -or- Why Apple Can’t Build iPads in the US

  2. Notch's next game is an MMO

  3. Learning VIM while playing a game

  4. A profitable, growing, useful, legal, well-loved... failure

  5. SOPA is all fun and games until NBC rips off Apple's artwork

  6. "I Won The Windows Phone Challenge, But Lost 'Just Because'"

Technology 632 stories

  1. Pebble E-Paper Watch Raises $1M In 28 Hours

  2. Google Announces Project Glass

  3. Light Table Is On Kickstarter

Show 9 more
  1. I hereby resign

  2. I am very real

  3. Mosh: SSH for 2012

  4. Facebook acquires Instagram

  5. PHP: A fractal of bad design

  6. How Not To Sort By Average Rating

  7. A Woman’s Story

  8. Sqrt(x*x+y*y)+3*cos(sqrt(x*x+y*y))+5 from -20 to 20

  9. The Top Of My Todo List

Entertainment 25 stories

  1. Show HN: Meteor, a realtime JavaScript framework

  2. Show HN: We built real MMO Asteroids

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Our Hackable E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android

  2. Show HN: Punch - A Fun and Easy Way to Build Modern Websites

  3. HBO Decides It Still Isn't Difficult Enough To Watch HBO Shows

  4. Show HN: Filepicker.io - dead simple file uploads

  5. The new Comcast Xbox Xfinity app is the first nail in net neutrality’s coffin

  6. Show HN: A Lisp-based in-browser toy operating system

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