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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 14 – December 14, 2010 802 stories · Vol. 10 · Catalogue 50 · Issue 348 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

How I Screwed Up My Google Acquisition

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What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Editing Google Docs in Emacs

    9 of 30 days · 14 articles

  2. Technology

    Hacker News' Reading Level

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    Which programming language do you want to learn next?

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

Business 50 stories

  1. How I Screwed Up My Google Acquisition

  2. Startup Ideas Every Nerd Has (That Never Work)

  3. BankSimple Launches Preview Site

  4. How I Incorporated My Startup

Show 10 more
  1. The best investment advice you'll never get

  2. Small startup hits Google paydirt

  3. Startup Lessons, Courtesy of United Airlines’ Crappy Customer Service

  4. How being a bully fuels this trader's profits because of Google

  5. How much startup stock options are worth

  6. Apple’s iOS 4.2 Available Today for iPad, iPhone & iPod touch

  7. How to destroy your business with one email

  8. WikiLeaks Will Unveil Major Bank Scandal in Early 2011

  9. Review my startup: Tastebuds - dating for last.fm users

  10. A Chrome extension to avoid the Stack Overflow ripoffs

Sports 30 stories

  1. Wik-Bee Leaks: EPA Knowingly Allowed Pesticide That Kills Honey Bees

  2. Close the Washington Monument

Show 6 more
  1. A Google Interviewing Story

  2. Beekeeper Who Leaked EPA Documents: "I Don't Think We Can Survive This Winter"

  3. AI Sports Journalist Covers Every Division I College Basketball Team

  4. Google AI Challenge Winner Post-Mortem

  5. Today's Coding Interview Game

  6. Oracle in conflict with another open source project?

Technology 597 stories

  1. The Ruby Stdlib is a Ghetto

  2. Lisp compiler in 89 lines of Python

  3. Amazon no longer hosts wikileaks

Show 9 more
  1. Today you, tomorrow me

  2. Google Beatbox

  3. Salesforce Buys Heroku (YC W08) For $212 Million In Cash

  4. Why Do Google Maps’s City Labels Seem So Readable?

  5. Everest is littered with dead, exposed bodies

  6. Ben the Bodyguard: Gorgeous HTML5 Website

  7. How Israel handles airport security

  8. What Does it Mean to Work Hard?

  9. Re-entry to US without backscatter or pat-down

Entertainment 19 stories

  1. Comcast demands Level 3 pay fee to deliver online movies to their subscribers

  2. Author Slams eBook Piracy, Son Outs Her As a Music Pirate

Show 6 more
  1. According to the IRS you are a private contractor employed by Google

  2. Mathematical explanation of music and white/black notes in a piano

  3. What kind of traffic is driven by a single mention of a domain on network TV?

  4. Judge in Xbox modding trial berates prosecution, halts trial

  5. Show HN: A Genetic Algorithm I wrote in JavaScript to evolve "Hello World"

  6. Level 3 outbid Akamai on Netflix by reselling stolen bandwidth

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