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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 4 – October 4, 2009 788 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 40 · Issue 277 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

    Building an Echo Server Using Tornado

    7 of 30 days · 11 articles

  2. Technology

    Looking into the future with Cassandra

    7 of 30 days · 9 articles

  3. Technology

    CouchDB Google Tech Talk

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 38 stories

  1. How to run a small consultancy / freelancing business

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

  3. Mark Zuckerberg: The evolution of a remarkable CEO

  4. Fundable comes to an ugly end

Show 10 more
  1. @2gov - Visas for startup founders movement

  2. The trouble with non-profits

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

  4. The Best Deal In Startup Land

  5. What I Learned From My Failed Startup

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

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

  8. Quotes From PG’s FBFund Talk From Today

  9. Startup Bootcamp at MIT

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

Sports 26 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 607 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. Looking into the future with Cassandra

  4. Norman Borlaug on Organic Farming

  5. A terrible tragedy: Dan Haubert of Ticketstumbler (fallentimes) has passed away

  6. Yeah Ok, So Facebook Punk’d Us

  7. When a co-founder dies

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

  9. Learning Advanced JavaScript

Entertainment 9 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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