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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 25 – May 25, 2009 775 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 22 · Issue 145 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Profit per employee for some large tech companies

What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Slicehost Pro iPhone App now free

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    How Scala Changed My Programming Style

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Dear News.YC: please review my Mac app, Evom

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 37 stories

  1. Profit per employee for some large tech companies

  2. The First Digg Developer Dispels the Myths Surrounding Digg & Startups in General

  3. Lessons from a failed startup

  4. The huge-scale real-time auctions that power the Google profit machine

Show 10 more
  1. American excess: A Wall Street trader tells all

  2. Obama proposes no capital gains tax on qualified small business stock

  3. How to Build a Lean Startup, step-by-step

  4. Interview With Eric Reis On Lean Startups

  5. Why there's nothing special about the business of software

  6. Idiot CEOs

  7. EU recognizes Internet access as a fundamental right, on par with freedom of expression

  8. Fred Wilson: The End of the IPO Drought is Coming

  9. The App Store Is a Classic Example Of A Broken Business Process

  10. Launch a Business, Not a side Project

Sports 26 stories

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

  2. Google: Mowing lawn with goats

Show 6 more
  1. How to implement 'realistic' swordfighting in video games.

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

  3. A few comments on pandemic influenza

  4. Judge Reviewing Pirate Bay Trial Bias Is Removed for Bias

  5. Mini Mario Game as Resignation Letter

  6. Flight Control (#1 paid app) iPhone Game Sales Numbers

Technology 608 stories

  1. Wolfram Alpha API (Google Cache)

  2. Arduino hardware hacking: Part 1

  3. Deny This, Last.fm

Show 9 more
  1. A brief, incomplete and mostly wrong history of programming languages

  2. HN Frontpage ranked using only votes from accounts over a year old

  3. Is There Anything Good About Men?

  4. Much of the established news industry is being blown away. Yet news is thriving

  5. Milton Glaser: Ten Things I Have Learned

  6. The Case For Working With Your Hands

  7. Don’t! The secret of self-control

  8. My Personal Credit Crisis

  9. Spolsky: Why Circuit City Failed, and Why B&H Thrives

Entertainment 23 stories

  1. Netflix Prize - One Team's Account

  2. Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VI: Every World War II Movie was Wrong

Show 6 more
  1. Not Smart: Warner Music Issues DMCA Takedown On Larry Lessig Presentation

  2. The radioactive boy scout: the teenager who attempted to build a breeder reactor

  3. Wolfram Alpha to Launch Live on Justin.TV

  4. Reddit.TV launches - what do you think, Hacker News?

  5. Fliggo (YC S08) launches TwitVid - the TwitPic of video

  6. Frogmetrics, OMGPOP, Posterous, Scribd, Inkling, Xobni, and Loopt nominated for TiE50 Awards

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