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Interesting article about how Peets, the progenitor of Starbucks, is becoming more and more like them.

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Interesting article about how Peets, the progenitor of Starbucks, is becoming more and more like them.

Luckily there's a plenty of alternatives brewing around here. Oakland's Blue Bottle Coffee is still tops for me. How about you? Have you seen places like Blue Bottle spring up in your area?

 

Ouch. hi5 folks let me know if I can help you find your next gig.

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Ouch. hi5 folks let me know if I can help you find your next gig.

I think the real reason they're able to get by with less hardware is because they now have a ton less traffic and the new site runs on newer hardware.

I also note that it appears that they're still running on tomcat + netscalers for now:

curl -v http://www.hi5.com/friend/displayHomePage.do 2>&1|egrep 'Server:|NSC'

< Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1

< Set-Cookie: NSC_bqq-tfswfst-ofxvj=e246bb343660;expires=Tue, 20-Sep-11 10:20:46 GMT;path=/

 

Hi Qiwenm

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Thanks for adding me to a circle on Google+.

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