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Re:EBay acquires Hunch for $80m by suking on Monday November 21, 2011 @11:25AM (#3261617)
I don't believe real time is very hard. Something that ebay can' already do. And if they can't already do it, how will hunch come in and solve it. It would probably require major changes to db's etc if that is why ebay can't already do it.
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Re:EBay acquires Hunch for $80m by hassy on Monday November 21, 2011 @11:36AM (#3261653)
> I don't believe real time is very hard.

At scale it is. More here:

http://www.quora.com/Hunch/Is-Hunch-actually-doing-anything-... (this one got a vote from one of the founders)

http://hassy.posterous.com/my-favorite-startups-hunch

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