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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close October 20 – October 27, 2013 191 stories · Vol. 13 · Catalogue 43 · Issue 300 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Dear Startups: stop asking me math puzzles to figure out if I can code

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Business 17 stories

  1. Dear Startups: stop asking me math puzzles to figure out if I can code

  2. Startup School 2013 Doodles

  3. Federal Prosecutors, in a Policy Shift, Cite Warrantless Wiretaps as Evidence

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  1. Microsoft reports record first-quarter revenue of $18.53 billion

  2. Amazon and the "profitless business model" fallacy

  3. Primer on elliptic curve cryptography

  4. CryptoSeal (YC S11) Shutting Down Private VPN

Sports 15 stories

  1. How to lose $172,222 a second for 45 minutes

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  1. Why Does Windows Have Terrible Battery Life?

  2. How I compiled TrueCrypt 7.1a for Win32 and matched the official binaries

  3. Russian programmer fights Goldman Sachs and wins one round

Technology 147 stories

  1. The Ocean is Broken

  2. Dr. Arjun Srinivasan: We’ve Reached “The End of Antibiotics, Period”

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  1. The PC is not dead, we just don't need new ones

  2. LinkedIn ‘Intro’duces Insecurity

  3. Lime – Experimental Sublime Text clone

  4. How to get rid of old stuff, sell it for more, and use Amazon as cheap storage

  5. NSA monitored calls of 35 world leaders

Entertainment 5 stories

  1. Google breaks 2005 promise never to show banner ads on search results

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  1. Show HN: Sketchology

  2. Show HN: A Github for writers?

  3. Show HN: Unirest

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