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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close June 17 – July 17, 2014 829 stories · Vol. 14 · Catalogue 29 · Issue 198 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Bill Gates's Favorite Business Book

online.wsj.com · 2 sources

Also covering this newyorker.comBill Gates’s Favorite Business Tales, in The New Yorker
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What dominated July

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Entertainment

    Show HN: Freeciv, HTML5 open source version

    7 of 30 days · 8 articles

  2. Technology

    File system that stores location of file in Pi

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    What Happens When the Amish Get Rich

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 50 stories

  1. Bill Gates's Favorite Business Book

    online.wsj.com · 2 outlets

  2. My startup failed, and this is what it feels like

    medium.com · 2 outlets

  3. Newegg is now accepting Bitcoin

    promotions.newegg.com · 1 outlets

  4. Software used to count Australian Senate votes is a “trade secret”

    easycount.mjec.net · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. What Happened When We Tried to Publish a Real Paper Investigating Time Travel

    thewinnower.com · 1 outlets

  2. The Abstinence Method – Dutch farmers say no to antibiotics for livestock

    modernfarmer.com · 1 outlets

  3. Federal judge rules U.S. no-fly list violates Constitution

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  4. The Highest-Paid CEOs Are The Worst Performers, New Study Says

    forbes.com · 1 outlets

  5. Supreme Court rules on software patent case Alice Corp v. CLS Bank [pdf]

    supremecourt.gov · 1 outlets

  6. Workaholism in America Is Hurting the Economy

    newrepublic.com · 1 outlets

  7. The Economy

    blog.samaltman.com · 1 outlets

  8. Complete DIY guide: legal basics for startups

    blog.staply.co · 1 outlets

  9. Customer churn can kill your startup

    jamiebegin.com · 3 outlets

  10. How the Other Half Works: an Adventure in the Low Status of Software Engineers

    michaelochurch.wordpre · 1 outlets

Sports 29 stories

  1. Hydra: A lightweight OS X window manager with a powerful API

    github.com · 1 outlets

  2. Retirement of Prof. Andy Tanenbaum

    cs.vu.nl · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. A developer who spent 13 years making his childhood game

    gamasutra.com · 1 outlets

  2. The Water-Repelling Surface That Lives Outside My Window

    wired.com · 1 outlets

  3. The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds

    grantland.com · 1 outlets

  4. Euclid: The Game

    euclidthegame.org · 1 outlets

  5. Intestinal bacteria may influence our moods

    cbc.ca · 1 outlets

  6. World Cup Follow-Up: Update of Winning Probabilities and Betting Results

    blog.wolfram.com · 1 outlets

Technology 630 stories

  1. The Government Once Built Silicon Valley

    fortune.com · 2 outlets

  2. Mutable Algorithms in Immutable Languages, Part 1

    tel.github.io · 1 outlets

  3. Publisher Closure Puts 2600 in Limbo

    2600.com · 1 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Visualizing Algorithms

    bost.ocks.org · 1 outlets

  2. Supreme court: Aereo is violating copyright law [pdf]

    supremecourt.gov · 1 outlets

  3. Y Combinator has filed an official comment with the FCC

    blog.ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

  4. Bootstra.386 – A Bootstrap theme from the 1980s

    kristopolous.github.io · 1 outlets

  5. Python is now the most popular introductory language at top U.S. universities

    cacm.acm.org · 1 outlets

  6. Unofficial Google Cardboard Kit

    developers.google.com · 2 outlets

  7. A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2-year-old son

    salon.com · 1 outlets

  8. Introducing Raspberry Pi B+

    raspberrypi.org · 1 outlets

  9. Amazon Fire Phone

    amazon.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 45 stories

  1. Show HN: Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, dd, etc.

    news.ycombinator.com · 2 outlets

  2. Show HN: Pangoly – Build your shiny new PC

    pangoly.com · 2 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: Wavepot – Digital audio workstation of the web

    wavepot.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Free, anonymous coding interview practice

    interviewing.io · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: Sysadmin Casts – simple bite-sized sysadmin screencasts

    sysadmincasts.com · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: Breach – A modular browser built on Chromium and Node.js

    breach.cc · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: Hacker News Redesign

    hilapeleg.io · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: We put an iPhone on the front wheel of a car

    blog.evilwindowdog.com · 1 outlets

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