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2008-05-14
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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close May 7 – May 14, 2008 167 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 20 · Issue 135 Get it by email ↓
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Startups Wiki: Ask YC Archive

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Business 16 stories

  1. Startups Wiki: Ask YC Archive

  2. Ruby on Rails Startup Heroku Gets $3 Million

  3. The Bipolar Lisp Programmer

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  1. Xobni Acquires IP From Failed Web 1.0 Startup FireDrop

  2. Multi-millionaire startup founder throws 29th birthday party...with 300 homeless people

  3. Cash-Burning Facebook Borrows $100mm...Because It Couldn't Sell Stock?

  4. The Art of the Business Card

Sports 8 stories

  1. Game’s high score could earn the Nobel

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  1. Google's search business to be bigger than Windows

  2. After the boomers, meet the children dubbed 'baby losers'

  3. Google hands out $1.25 million to 50 Android app winners

Technology 134 stories

  1. Dynamic Languages Strike Back

  2. Lies We Tell Kids

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  1. Processing ported to JavaScript

  2. Code on the Road: Laid off? The one thing you absolutely need to do on the first day

  3. How I built a poker-bot

  4. Unix Command-Line Kung Fu

  5. Letter to a Young Procrastinator: Some last-minute advice from a veteran slacker

Entertainment 4 stories

  1. Show, Don't Tell

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  1. My No TV

  2. Powerset Launches Showcase For User Search Experience

  3. Programmer Productivity - The Tenfinity Factor

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