The idea was to create a way to Google your own data in main memory, to create much faster decision making cycle. 100, 000x faster than any other technology in the world, he says.

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In the era of the twenty-four hour news cycle, the Shirley Sherrod story seems like a distant memory.

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But for those of us who came up in an era when a glossy hunk of paper and ink was a thing to behold, the tangible result of a hardworking group of professionals operating in a weekly cycle that felt as natural and inevitable as the tides, this is a day for memory and regret.

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