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Curing cancer is probably worth a few billion dollars to whoever figures it out. But so is helping enterprises search machine data to find patterns and problems, as Splunk has learned in its 1999-style IPO last week. Splunk, which now bills itself as "Google search for the data centre," originally intended to cure cancer. It's …

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  1. Kubla Cant
    WTF?

    "Venture capital is kind of like a knuckleball"

    A really valuable simile, given that I have a reasonable idea what venture capital is, and have never heard of a "knuckleball". Is it some kind of arthritic complaint?

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