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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 1 – July 31, 2012 827 stories · Vol. 12 · Catalogue 31 · Issue 213 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Microsoft reports first quarterly loss ever

What dominated July

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Some Lisp books (and then some)

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    What I Learned From Increasing My Prices

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    The Fay Programming Language

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 53 stories

  1. Microsoft reports first quarterly loss ever

  2. The real reason we’re upset about Sparrow’s acquisition

  3. Being a Developer Makes You Valuable. Learning How to Market Makes You Dangerous

  4. Lenovo CEO Gives His $3 Million Bonus to 10,000 Employees

Show 10 more
  1. Talent Acquisitions

  2. Goldman Sachs and the $580 Million Black Hole

  3. Why Do Startups Do This?

  4. If you run a contest as a startup, don't be dishonest. JPEGmini scammed me.

  5. The rotten heart of finance

  6. Unbreakable crypto: Store a 30-character password in your subconscious memory

  7. A Redditor about the problem with today's Silicon Valley startup community

  8. Investing in GitHub

  9. Entitlement and Acquisition

  10. App.net is crowdfunding their realtime feed platform

Sports 41 stories

  1. Gabe Newell Wants to Support Linux, Because Windows 8 is a 'Catastrophe'

  2. Company withdrawing from Facebook as analytics show 80% of ad clicks from bots

Show 6 more
  1. Late bloomer, not a loser. (I hope)

  2. I'm an American and I want to watch the Olympics. What do I do?

  3. Aaron Winborn: Special Needs Trust

  4. Watch what you store on SkyDrive–you may lose your Microsoft life

  5. WikiLeaks wins case against Visa

  6. MPAA/RIAA lose big as US backs copyright "limitations"

Technology 599 stories

  1. Go videos from Google I/O 2012

  2. Higgs Boson Explained by Cartoon

  3. Amazon Career Choice Program

Show 9 more
  1. John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review

  2. The Next Microsoft

  3. Google Fiber Plans & Pricing

  4. Physical assault by McDonald's for wearing Digital Eye Glass

  5. Making Friends Over 30 with Grubwithus

  6. A Dust Over India

  7. Github Raises $100 Million

  8. Can a 32-bit OS machine use up all 8GB RAM + 20GB page file?

  9. Got 15 minutes and want to learn Git?

Entertainment 35 stories

  1. Show HN: fontBomb - Stylishly destroy the web

  2. Show HN: Markupwand, magically convert your photoshop files to HTML & CSS

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Moqups - Vectorial mockups with HTML5 and SVG

  2. Show HN: gist.io, blogless writing for hackers

  3. Show HN: BrainTripping - language model comedy

  4. Show HN: Iorad - the tutorial builder

  5. Show HN: My weekend project using the Soundcloud API

  6. Distribution of colors in movie posters between 1914 and 2012

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