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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 2 – October 2, 2009 815 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 40 · Issue 275 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

How to run a small consultancy / freelancing business

1Outlets
1Articles

What dominated October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Naming characters with Google AdWords

    8 of 30 days · 10 articles

  2. Technology

    Building an Echo Server Using Tornado

    7 of 30 days · 11 articles

  3. Technology

    Getting a Fair Toss From a Biased Coin

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 39 stories

  1. How to run a small consultancy / freelancing business

  2. Working for startups sucks, you'll be happier working for The Man

  3. Fundable comes to an ugly end

  4. @2gov - Visas for startup founders movement

Show 10 more
  1. The trouble with non-profits

  2. When It Comes To Founding Successful Startups, Old Guys Rule

  3. The Best Deal In Startup Land

  4. What I Learned From My Failed Startup

  5. TC50 Backstage: Why PG Was Mean and Which YC Companies Will IPO

  6. Child-safety software sells kids' IM conversations to market-research companies

  7. Quotes From PG’s FBFund Talk From Today

  8. Startup Bootcamp at MIT

  9. Twitter Closing New Venture Round At $1 Billion Valuation

  10. Barack Obama Loves Startups: New Federal Office for Early-Stage Entrepreneurs

Sports 28 stories

  1. How Tim Schafer Broke Into the Game Industry: A Legendary Cover Letter

  2. Judge Orders Google To Deactivate User's Gmail Account and Disclose Identity

Show 6 more
  1. Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time

  2. The end of AI winter?

  3. ACM 20 Most Influential Papers on Programming Languages [tarball]

  4. Why aeroplane wings aren't dimpled like golf balls

  5. John Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace "wins" Lunar Lander Challenge [video]

  6. Google Releases A Nuke. Apple Won’t Win This Fight.

Technology 621 stories

  1. The Duct Tape Programmer

  2. Writing a DSL with Python

  3. Grand Central Dispatch Now Open to All

Show 9 more
  1. Courier - Microsoft's Secret Tablet?

  2. Building an Echo Server Using Tornado

  3. Naming characters with Google AdWords

  4. Norman Borlaug on Organic Farming

  5. Yeah Ok, So Facebook Punk’d Us

  6. When a co-founder dies

  7. Dropbox's Summer 07 YC Application

  8. The bar for success in our industry is too low

  9. Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm

Entertainment 10 stories

  1. Grand Prize Awarded To BellKor Pragmatic Chaos

  2. Netflix Prize Movie Similarity Visualization

Show 6 more
  1. Netflix's tail massage

  2. Tell HN: Paul Graham on TC50 panel, streaming live

  3. Justin.tv founders named as top 30 under 30 by Inc.

  4. 7 ways I’ve almost killed FreshBooks

  5. Music Sales

  6. Artists Should Be Compensated For Their Work

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