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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 6 – August 5, 2014 818 stories · Vol. 14 · Catalogue 32 · Issue 217 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 August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Level-Up Your Machine Learning

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Anatomy of a system call, part 1

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    Linus Torvalds gives a tour of his home office

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 44 stories

  1. Bill Gates's Favorite Business Book

    online.wsj.com · 2 outlets

  2. Notes from YC Startup School Europe

    paulbuchheit.blogspot. · 3 outlets

  3. Bitcoin: the Stripe perspective

    stripe.com · 1 outlets

  4. Now Accepting Bitcoin on Dell.com

    en.community.dell.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. List of Web Business Models

    gist.github.com · 1 outlets

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

    easycount.mjec.net · 1 outlets

  3. Ars editor learns feds have his old IP addresses, full credit card numbers

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  4. Let's Build a Traditional City and Make a Profit

    andrewalexanderprice.c · 1 outlets

  5. Kryptoradio – A Bitcoin data transmission system

    filecoin.io · 2 outlets

  6. Google Startup Launch

    developers.google.com · 1 outlets

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

    michaelochurch.wordpre · 1 outlets

  8. Startup Growth Calculator

    growth.tlb.org · 1 outlets

  9. U.S. Banks Curtail International Money Transfers

    dealbook.nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  10. Mark Cuban: If Your Company Is Moving For Tax Reasons, I'm Selling Your Stock

    ca.finance.yahoo.com · 1 outlets

Sports 32 stories

  1. Game about squares

    gameaboutsquares.com · 1 outlets

  2. Retirement of Prof. Andy Tanenbaum

    cs.vu.nl · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. My iOS Indie-Game Numbers

    txt.jazzychad.net · 1 outlets

  2. Exploring No Man’s Sky, A Computer Game Forged by Algorithms

    technologyreview.com · 1 outlets

  3. Intestinal bacteria may influence our moods

    cbc.ca · 1 outlets

  4. Google will stop calling games 'free' when they offer in-app purchases

    theverge.com · 1 outlets

  5. Color Emoji in Windows 8.1 – The Future of Color Fonts?

    opentype.info · 1 outlets

  6. No skin thick enough: The daily harassment of women in the game industry

    polygon.com · 1 outlets

Technology 623 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. Thanks, HN: You helped discover a disease and save lives

    newyorker.com · 1 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Count to ten when a plane goes down

    johncbeck.tumblr.com · 1 outlets

  2. Stellar

    stripe.com · 1 outlets

  3. Calling All Hackers: Help Us Build an Open Wireless Router

    eff.org · 1 outlets

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

    blog.ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

  5. Verizon's accidental mea culpa

    blog.level3.com · 1 outlets

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

    cacm.acm.org · 1 outlets

  7. Choose hotels by the quality of their WiFi

    hotelwifitest.com · 1 outlets

  8. The Lowdown on Lidar

    docs.google.com · 1 outlets

  9. Mistakes You Should Never Make

    sethbannon.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 50 stories

  1. Show HN: Markov chains explained visually

    setosa.io · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: OneBody Church Directory software I've been hacking on for 7 years

    github.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    pangoly.com · 3 outlets

  2. Show HN: NomadList – The best cities to live and work remotely in

    nomadlist.io · 2 outlets

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

    sysadmincasts.com · 2 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 · 3 outlets

  6. Show HN: Papa Parse 3

    papaparse.com · 1 outlets

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