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2007-08-27
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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 20 – August 27, 2007 173 stories · Vol. 07 · Catalogue 35 · Issue 239 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Scaling a startup from 0 to 40 hits per second in 3 days

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Business 22 stories

  1. Scaling a startup from 0 to 40 hits per second in 3 days

  2. OwnTerms: Creative Commons-licensed stock legal documents

  3. 3 Rules for Naming Your Startup

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  1. Deadpool: Five Stupidest Startups of the Summer

  2. Startup Founders Don't Sleep (How many all-nighters do you pull a month?)

  3. Seth's Blog: Business card mistakes

  4. Subprime Fallout Could Help Venture Capitalists

Sports 7 stories

  1. iPhone unlocked: AT&T loses iPhone exclusivity

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  1. A Whirlwind Week in Cali

  2. The Dark Side of Startups: 5 Corrosive Co-Founder Conflicts

  3. Growing online communities: Haskell IRC channel reaches 400 users

Technology 130 stories

  1. Mark Cuban: The internet is 'dead and boring'

  2. Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas

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  1. Holding a program in one's head

  2. Philip Greenspun: Improving Undergraduate Computer Science Education

  3. Remember that Lifehacker post about Seinfeld's productivity secret? I made a small site based on it.

  4. New Book from O'Reilly: Programming Collective Intelligence

  5. News.YC's half birthday (with stats)

Entertainment 4 stories

  1. Paul Graham and Walt Disney

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  1. World Bank study shows "what countries need to do to create wealth"

  2. Nokia's new N-Gage service enables multiplayer gaming between phones

  3. Nick Cave's letter to MTV (from 1996)

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