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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close May 2 – June 1, 2009 769 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 23 · Issue 152 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Profit per employee for some large tech companies

What dominated June

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Bringing Traffic with Google Adwords

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Teaching functional programming to kids

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Applications for your plug computer

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 38 stories

  1. Profit per employee for some large tech companies

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

  3. You are the problem: the reason why so many startups don't get venture funding

  4. Starting a business isn't as crazy and risky as they say

Show 10 more
  1. Mapping Out Your Web Startup

  2. How To Put Invite Codes on Business Cards

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

  4. Nate Lawson Breaks Google Keyczar's HMAC Crypto Signatures

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

  6. Interview With Eric Reis On Lean Startups

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

  8. Idiot CEOs

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

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

Sports 20 stories

  1. How to implement 'realistic' swordfighting in video games.

  2. What I learned from screwing up my first ebook launch

Show 6 more
  1. Judge Reviewing Pirate Bay Trial Bias Is Removed for Bias

  2. Creative anti-debugger technique in Spotify for Windows

  3. Simple wins

  4. Heyzap Closes Seed Funding Round With USV (YC W09)

  5. Lean movie-making: Zombie flick wowing Cannes made for $70

  6. Nethack - Best Game Ever (2000)

Technology 606 stories

  1. Wolfram Alpha API (Google Cache)

  2. Arduino hardware hacking: Part 1

  3. Deny This, Last.fm

Show 9 more
  1. The speed, size and dependability of programming languages

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

  3. My $3.3M Mistake

  4. How to Teach a Child to Argue

  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 16 stories

  1. Netflix Prize - One Team's Account

  2. Use RunPee.com to know when to go to the bathroom during a movie

Show 6 more
  1. The radioactive boy scout: the teenager who attempted to build a breeder reactor

  2. Wolfram Alpha to Launch Live on Justin.TV

  3. Farmers Didn't Invent Tractors. They Were Busy Farming.

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

  5. Hulu Desktop (Mac and PC clients)

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

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