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I like monkeys.

The pet store was selling them for five cents a piece. I thought that odd since they were normally a couple thousand each. I decided not to look a gift horse in the mouth. I bought 200. I like monkeys.

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Why I Never Let Employees Negotiate a Raise 16 years ago

same here. super annoying. not sure I'll ever read anything from inc.com again.

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Jerry Seinfeld's Productivity Secret 17 years ago

what's the deal with chains? I mean, everyone always wants to break them.

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At Twitter we're working on using Cassandra to store tweets 17 years ago

if you look on the OP's thread, Joe Stump talks about using Cassandra for SimpleGeo, which I believe is completely hosted on EC2.

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How to Make a Million Dollars 17 years ago

It may be thin, but it's inspirational, and that can go a long way when you're starting something from scratch.

This post inspired me years ago when I was starting my own company and I still think about it today.

Thanks Marshall!

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Jakob Nielsen on Usability and Web Design 17 years ago

"It's time to show most passwords in clear text as users type them."

I stopped paying attention after that.

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MySpace replaces all server hard disks with flash drives 17 years ago

IIRC, MySpace rolled their own "memcache" server... so that statement could be misleading.

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When things aren’t working, think “smarter” not “louder”. 17 years ago

meh on the article, but loved the dog pic. too bad there's no attribution in his post:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/51588518@N00/8492351/

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