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by gstar 16y ago
Per capita, people in the UK are more likely to have a degree - they converted all tertiary schools (formerly polytechnics) into universities in 1992.
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by gstar 16y ago
We use something custom - we deliver contact emails via Google AppEngine, via a private webservice. It was really simple to set up, virtually free (0.0001c per email), and Google's got pretty much the gold standard for delivering mail. One
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by gstar 16y ago
Here's a version that does a socket.gethostbyname before it hits the whois server: http://d14hvpftrmzdxx.cloudfront.net/namer-ns.py
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by gstar 16y ago
I'm showing my age, but it used to be uncool to hammer the WHOIS servers. It might pay to use a bit of socket.gethostbyname() to exclude the domain before you hit whois for the final verdict. Really cool idea, though - impressed with the a
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by gstar 16y ago
Thanks, no - it does help, I hadn't thought to check NoScript's download stats. I was aware that most web stats packages use javascript to report stats - when we did the exercise of checking for disabled JS, that's where we looked.
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Women in tech don't need patronizing, just encouragement(eu.techcrunch.com)
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by gstar 16y ago
I keep reading this, but I'm yet to see any stats - and the stats from my site don't support this at all. Can you cite?
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by gstar 16y ago
I've often wondered if Gruber's reliable contact at Apple was some guy with turtlenecks and no numberplates.
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by gstar 17y ago
The thing is, it's rare for a Mac laptop to die. I still have a perfectly functioning 12" powerbook that won't die despite all my attempts to kill it.
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by gstar 17y ago
A friend of mine thought he had a well paid job in Australia, then moved to the UK to do contract work in a similar field to yours and earned 4.8 times as much with much less responsibility and stress. The exchange rate isn't as good anymor
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by gstar 17y ago
Shame! I thought we were going to get analytics from Mint showing their users net worth closely correlated with purchasing low-price HDMI cables.
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by gstar 17y ago
I initially missed it, but the page itself is at http://www.seomoz.org/pro_landing.php
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by gstar 17y ago
This is great advice. Whenever I've hired a maybe, it's been a complete disaster. I especially like the idea of only hiring people that intimidate you ... so long as the only intimidating qualities are their skills and knowledge!
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by gstar 17y ago
The great thing about the benefits system in the UK is that you just won't, unless you want to. If you really do want to take the risk of starting a business, even if you do fail - you'll never be back on the streets.
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by gstar 17y ago
Another workaround is to assign a data url to the image tag, then replace the source with javascript. Something like <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7">
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by gstar 17y ago
Really excellent to know. I didn't believe quite how much disruption gets caused by raising money. Keeping on selling and working at the product while that's happening is desperately hard.
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by gstar 17y ago
I agree, it'll probably work. The impedance of the coax cables will likely be 50 or 75 ohm, whereas the UTP will be 100 ohm. You will need a balun http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balun . Baluns are easy to make, and depending on the cable y
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by gstar 17y ago
If you take prediction 1 as key-value stores (which I think is more-or-less where stevey was going) - he's spot on.
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by gstar 17y ago
Azeem is spot on about what UK startups face, but here's a couple more overriding themes that I've observed: - There's a culture of "what's in it for me?", so it's hard to get advisors or put together an advisory board without getting out y
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by gstar 17y ago
I'm sure he said 'the tabloid is going to be really terrific' at the end - misspoken, or is that the name of the tablet?
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by gstar 17y ago
The sort mode is map-reduce style, but the overall idea was to put data sequentially on disk before you process it.
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by gstar 17y ago
Very similar to Start3d, http://www.start3d.com - which can apparently generate these images as well as display them for 3d glasses.
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by gstar 17y ago
We've built a business partly around automatic analytics - our approach is to keep the headcount low and the value high. I wonder if the demand for analysts is a symptom of business waking up to the possibilities, while automated analytics
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by gstar 17y ago
Sometimes to get attention you need to make outlandish claims. The results are still valid, though (and the UX is gorgeous).
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by gstar 17y ago
Thoroughly agree. The costs of compliance are only so high because practitioners are supposedly scarce. The opportunity costs to industry have been much, much higher than the direct costs, though.
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by gstar 17y ago
Original: http://www.offshore.hsbc.com/1/PA_1_4_S5/content/internation...
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by gstar 17y ago
Most likely yes - I still think it would take a fairly sizeable contraction in openness in Silicon Valley to be as closed as Europe, though.
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by gstar 17y ago
I have a feeling this is one of the key things that differ between greater Europe and Silicon Valley.
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by gstar 17y ago
Depends on the business, and what you're doing - but it's more or less: - Support - Sales - any number of sales-related things like optimising the sales pipeline or even managing sales staff if you're B2B - Marketing and PR - Business - thi
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by gstar 17y ago
Not much, but the Gearman default is to require a response. You can almost treat gearman like blocking unix pipes over tcp, mixed with a FIFO queue. In fact, it comes with commandline tools to do just that. You get the option of submitti

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