Do you ever have trouble remembering your cognitive biases, including your 19 social biases, 8 memory biases, 42 decision-making biases and 36 probability biases? If so, here’s a handy slideshow to help.

Cassandra and Voldemort compared. No surprise, but the best DB largely depends on how you will use it. If you are reading large amounts of data, Voldemort seems to offer better performance. Voldemort also excels due to its “simplicity, better versioning control, persistency layer maturity, and latency predictability.”

Terrific piece by Mike Davidson on Apple’s position in the market.

“Until people either start abandoning their products because of this or they do the opposite and adopt their products at a rate which creates a monopoly, they will continue operating at their current clip: high innovation, high profits, and high control. […]

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Photojournalist Allan Tannenbaum’s book New York In The 70s contains some great pictures of a dirty, gritty city where you’d be as likely to befriend a Hasidic Jew as you would a drug-dealer or prostitute.