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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 13 – December 13, 2014 820 stories · Vol. 14 · Catalogue 50 · Issue 347 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Microsoft accepting Bitcoin

commerce.microsoft.com · 2 sources

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2Outlets
2Articles

What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Functional Programming Patterns

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    The Red Programming Language

    4 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    Why the data center needs an operating system

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 36 stories

  1. Microsoft accepting Bitcoin

    commerce.microsoft.com · 2 outlets

  2. Hard-won lessons about money and investing

    mattcutts.com · 1 outlets

  3. Open Sourcing a Failed Startup

    nirvdrum.com · 1 outlets

  4. Apple Deleted Rivals’ Songs from Users’ iPods

    m.wsj.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. For Sale: 50,000 Bitcoins

    usmarshals.gov · 1 outlets

  2. Lecture 18: Legal and Accounting Basics for Startups

    startupclass.samaltman · 1 outlets

  3. Why I Walked Away From a $12M Acquisition Offer 18 Months After Our Launch

    groovehq.com · 1 outlets

  4. HSBC, Goldman Rigged Metals’ Prices for Years, Suit Says

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  5. What does the NSA think of academic cryptographers?

    scottaaronson.com · 1 outlets

  6. Why you should move your startup to a small fishing town

    thebluehouse.io · 1 outlets

  7. Why Did Yishan Wong Resign as Reddit CEO?

    quora.com · 1 outlets

  8. Japan Falls into Recession

    online.wsj.com · 1 outlets

  9. How to Get a Quant Job in Finance

    financejobs.co · 1 outlets

  10. How I Built a Barbecue Restaurant in Brooklyn: The Toll of Owning Your Business

    seriouseats.com · 1 outlets

Sports 30 stories

  1. 3D.City – Game built with three.js and sea3d

    lo-th.github.io · 1 outlets

  2. 0h h1 – A little logic game

    0hh1.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Monkey Island – Insult Swordfighting Game

    int33h.com · 1 outlets

  2. Handmade Hero: C game from scratch

    handmadehero.org · 1 outlets

  3. Classic arcade game TRON on a cloth modelling grid

    kreldjarn.github.io · 1 outlets

  4. Google to close engineering office in Russia

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  5. Magnus Carlsen Repeats at World Chess Championship

    blogs.wsj.com · 1 outlets

  6. Why I’m Giving Up My Passport

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

Technology 641 stories

  1. Orion Flight Test Live Launch

    nytimes.com · 2 outlets

  2. Thrust: Chromium-based cross-platform, cross-language application framework

    github.com · 1 outlets

  3. Object Oriented Programming is Inherently Harmful

    harmful.cat-v.org · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Launching in 2015: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web

    eff.org · 1 outlets

  2. NASA: We're sending humans to Mars

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  3. WhatsApp Co-Founder Donates $1M to FreeBSD Foundation

    freebsdfoundation.blog · 1 outlets

  4. Nature makes all articles free to view

    nature.com · 2 outlets

  5. Unicode Text Converter

    panix.com · 1 outlets

  6. CoreOS is building a container runtime, Rocket

    coreos.com · 1 outlets

  7. God's Lonely Programmer

    motherboard.vice.com · 1 outlets

  8. US Senate Report on CIA Detention and Interrogation Program

    intelligence.senate.go · 1 outlets

  9. The Case for Slow Programming

    ventrellathing.wordpre · 1 outlets

Entertainment 38 stories

  1. 24/192 music downloads are silly

    xiph.org · 1 outlets

  2. Wanderers: a short film of humanity's expansion into the Solar System [video]

    vimeo.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: Front-end framework optimized for internal apps

    getflakes.com · 2 outlets

  2. Show HN: Projects from “Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas” Hackathon

    lav.io · 1 outlets

  3. Meditation study shows changes associated with awareness, stress (2011)

    news.harvard.edu · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: Explained Visually

    setosa.io · 1 outlets

  5. ChartSQL: Create Charts and Dashboards from SQL

    fnordmetric.io · 1 outlets

  6. Google Lifts the Turing Award into Nobel Territory

    bits.blogs.nytimes.com · 1 outlets

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