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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close May 8 – May 15, 2008 179 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 20 · Issue 136 Get it by email ↓
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Startups Wiki: Ask YC Archive

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Business 15 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. Multi-millionaire startup founder throws 29th birthday party...with 300 homeless people

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

  3. NY’s “Amazon Tax” Takes First Casualty: Overstock Affiliates

  4. 5 Quick Tips on Pitching Angel Investors and Venture Capitalists

Sports 10 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. Lisp Wins (Steve Yegge article)

Technology 142 stories

  1. Dynamic Languages Strike Back

  2. Lies We Tell Kids

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  1. Processing ported to JavaScript

  2. Google releases free, detailed, HTML/CSS/Javascript encyclopedia by Mark Pilgrim

  3. Scaling Facebook Chat to 70 Million Active Users Almost Overnight

  4. Everything I want to do is Illegal

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

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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