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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 17 – May 17, 2014 813 stories · Vol. 14 · Catalogue 20 · Issue 137 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Results of the GitHub Investigation

1Outlets
1Articles

What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Word Lens (Quest Visual) is Joining Google

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    What Programming is Like

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    OS X Command Line Utilities

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 49 stories

  1. Results of the GitHub Investigation

  2. Stock Photos That Don’t Suck

  3. Employee Equity

  4. Monthly revenue breakdown of PlentyOfFish's early days

Show 10 more
  1. Web Fundamentals: A handbook for best practices

  2. Announcing the MIT Bitcoin Project

  3. Big Cable says investment is flourishing, but their data says it's falling

  4. It's Adventure Time

  5. Startup School is going global

  6. The Trade of the Century: When George Soros Broke the British Pound

  7. CEO complaints : employee not motivated after being fired

  8. Microsoft OneDrive for Business modifies files as it syncs

  9. Is the Toilet Free?

  10. The greatest juggler alive quit to open a construction business

Sports 25 stories

  1. How I wrote Game Programming Patterns

  2. Game Mechanic Explorer – examples for game mechanics, algorithms, and effects

Show 6 more
  1. How Munich switched 15,000 PCs from Windows to Linux

  2. Can This Web Be Saved? Mozilla Accepts DRM, and We All Lose

  3. “A Windows 7 deployment image was accidently sent to all Windows machines”

  4. The Mystery of Go, the Ancient Game That Computers Still Can’t Win

  5. Oracle wins appeal re Java API copyrightability [pdf]

  6. We'd lose our security certificate if we allowed pasting

Technology 636 stories

  1. Stop the FCC from Breaking the Internet

  2. A First Look at How Google's Self-Driving Car Handles City Streets

  3. Chrome's experiment of hiding the URL is awful

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  1. Help EFF test Privacy Badger, our new browser extension for privacy

  2. 2048, success and me

  3. Atom Is Now Open Source

  4. The future of Unreal Tournament begins today

  5. The Absurdity of LinkedIn

  6. The purpose of DRM is not to prevent copyright violations (2013)

  7. The next version of DuckDuckGo

  8. FCC approves plan to consider paid priority on Internet

  9. The Birth and Death of JavaScript [video]

Entertainment 31 stories

  1. Linus Torvalds Receives 2014 IEEE Computer Pioneer Award

  2. How I bypassed 2-Factor-Authentication on Google, Facebook, Yahoo, LinkedIn

Show 6 more
  1. My Quest to Build the Ultimate Music Player

  2. Refactored PHP engine makes Wordpress 20% faster

  3. Show HN: Turn an email to a web page

  4. British Pathé Puts Over 85,000 Historical Films on YouTube

  5. The Story Behind the Worst Movie on IMDb

  6. Show HN: Hipster Domain Finder

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