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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 12 – December 12, 2009 789 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 50 · Issue 346 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My Slides?

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What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    The Ruby Revolution is Over

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    An open letter to Eric Schmidt

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    There is a certain inevitability to life.

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 47 stories

  1. Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My Slides?

  2. The best questions we got while raising venture capital

  3. Time-lapse map of unemployment rates by U.S. county during recession

  4. HD Videos from Startup Bootcamp at MIT now online

Show 10 more
  1. Professional Hacks: Tricks of the Trade

  2. Frequently Forgotten Fundamental Facts about Software Engineering

  3. Sprint fed customer GPS data to police over 8 million times

  4. CrunchPad Federal Lawsuit Filed; Some Additional Thoughts

  5. Startup ideas

  6. Matt Brezina: No One Cares About Your Stupid Little Startup

  7. FlightCaster (YC S09) Takes Off With $1.3 Million In Funding And A New API

  8. Geeks trump alpha males on Wall Street

  9. Smashing the stack for fun and profit

  10. Cryptographic voting system developed by MIT prof has first real world trial

Sports 29 stories

  1. A piece with a lot of screenshots about the close tab behaviour in Google Chrome

  2. Continuity - a clever flash puzzle game

Show 6 more
  1. Things Worth Knowing About Coffee

  2. Canabalt: iPhone Game

  3. Webapp: image recognition to find nearest tennis courts from satellite photos

  4. The Gervais Principle II: Posturetalk, Powertalk, Babytalk and Gametalk

  5. How Pinball Ate itself: The Economics of Pinball

  6. At peak, Spain gets 53% of its energy from wind

Technology 603 stories

  1. Don Dodge hired by Google

  2. Web Developers Are Stupid and Arrogant

  3. Google acquires AppJet/Etherpad

Show 9 more
  1. Apple's Mistake

  2. The End Of The CrunchPad

  3. There is a certain inevitability to life.

  4. One of my favorite professors in college was a self-confessed liar

  5. A graphical comparison between employees, freelancers and makers.

  6. How to Slice a Bagel into Two Linked Halves

  7. Why I gave away my company to charity

  8. Your looks and your inbox

  9. Welcome to HN. Please, read 'Hacker News Guidelines.' We take them seriously.

Entertainment 15 stories

  1. Copyright Time Bomb Set to Disrupt Music, Publishing Industries

  2. Wattvision (YC W09) Shows The Power Of Simple, Realtime Energy Monitoring

Show 6 more
  1. Spotify artists earn $167 per 1 million plays.

  2. From PlayStation to Y Combinator: The Reddit Origin Story, Part 1

  3. Ridiculous User Interfaces In Film, and the Man Who Designs Them

  4. Jobs to The Little App Factory: Name change “Not that big of a deal”

  5. Walt Disney Creative Org Chart

  6. Baumol's Cost Disease: Why Artists are Always Poor

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