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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 29 – April 28, 2009 789 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 18 · Issue 118 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

My Manhattan Project: How I helped build the bomb that blew up Wall Street.

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What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    On programming language design

    6 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    Thoughts on the Y Combinator interview process

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    What Silicon Valley Can Learn From Zappos

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 56 stories

  1. My Manhattan Project: How I helped build the bomb that blew up Wall Street.

  2. Hacker News Startups: Listing/Wiki of startups founded by HNers (not just YC)

  3. Google Ventures

  4. The Banker Who Said No

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  1. Water Front Apt. in San Mateo will trade for equity in Y Combinator startup

  2. Hacking for fun and profit with Mathematica and the Google Analytics API

  3. Teach Yourself Fundamentals of Math (Reasoning, Logic, Sets, Induction, Complex Numbers)

  4. Followup on the $18000 StockArt.com story

  5. Obama Unveils Plan to Fund High-Speed Passenger Rail

  6. Silicon Graphics Declares Bankruptcy and Sells Itself For $25 Million

  7. Underbelly: What haughty startup bloggers don't tell you

  8. Kevin Rose and Tim Ferriss talk about Startups, Angel Investing, YC and Traffic/Conversions

  9. Fred Wilson on investing in Geocities

  10. What they Used to Teach You at Stanford Business School

Sports 36 stories

  1. Jason Fried: Get Satisfaction is "awfully close to blackmail"

  2. Pirate Bay officially loses case

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  1. How 4chan hacked ReCAPTCHA to win the TIME 100 Poll

  2. Ron Garret: How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career.

  3. We Are Morons: a quick look at the Win2k source (2004)

  4. Close the Book. Recall. Write It Down.

  5. Microsoft's Windows 7 Starter is a gift to Google

  6. A few comments on pandemic influenza

Technology 584 stories

  1. Functional programming with python

  2. Twitter jilts Ruby for Scala

  3. Google Code now supports Mercurial

Show 9 more
  1. Oracle to buy Sun

  2. Google uncloaks once-secret server

  3. Designer gets accused of stealing his own work and billed $18,000

  4. Pirate Bay's judge biased: Member of copyright organisations.

  5. Support The Founder Visa at Whitehouse2.org

  6. It’s very easy to underprice your product

  7. Five Founders

  8. Why I Never Let Employees Negotiate a Raise

  9. The dark side of Dubai

Entertainment 19 stories

  1. Just in case anyone is still using YouTube for music

  2. How Dumping TV Allowed Me to Quit My Job

Show 6 more
  1. Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VI: Every World War II Movie was Wrong

  2. "Nothing like this will be built again" - A Nuclear Reactor Tour

  3. Study finds pirates 10 times more likely to buy music

  4. A movie recommendation service that actually works

  5. Update: DiggBar will only be shown to logged-in Digg users

  6. Pixar’s Latest Film Has Wall Street on Edge

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