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Here's a version that does a socket.gethostbyname before it hits the whois server:

http://d14hvpftrmzdxx.cloudfront.net/namer-ns.py

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 approach.

OBTW: On your name, in the US does ninite mean "night, night!" or "goodnight" as it does in the UK?

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.

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?

I've often wondered if Gruber's reliable contact at Apple was some guy with turtlenecks and no numberplates.

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.

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 anymore, but I would recommend the UK over the other options.

Shame! I thought we were going to get analytics from Mint showing their users net worth closely correlated with purchasing low-price HDMI cables.

I initially missed it, but the page itself is at http://www.seomoz.org/pro_landing.php

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!

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.

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">

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.

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 you've got, probably available off the shelf.

There's 2 pairs in 100mbit ethernet (and 4 in gigabit) - so you'll need 4 baluns for each run (2 at each end).

Personally, I'd pull some UTP through, but it's worth a shot if you've got some time to tinker.

If you take prediction 1 as key-value stores (which I think is more-or-less where stevey was going) - he's spot on.

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 your cheque book. People in the valley (outwardly) seem to be more willing to take a chance, and trust that they'll get looked after in the event the business goes well. Not as much altruism in London.

- The UK is more risk-averse than the valley, you don't just need a vision, a prototype and a quality team, you need all that plus traction and profit before you fall inside investors appetite for risk.

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?

The sort mode is map-reduce style, but the overall idea was to put data sequentially on disk before you process it.

Very similar to Start3d, http://www.start3d.com - which can apparently generate these images as well as display them for 3d glasses.

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 is not mature.

Sometimes to get attention you need to make outlandish claims.

The results are still valid, though (and the UX is gorgeous).

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.

Original: http://www.offshore.hsbc.com/1/PA_1_4_S5/content/internation...

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.

I have a feeling this is one of the key things that differ between greater Europe and Silicon Valley.

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 - things like dealing with raising money, finance, accounting, trying to negotiate the lawyers fees down, fixing up the license agreement you originally wrote...

- Finding Staff - if you're doing well, you might need to hire. It takes a lot of time up, and it's a huge decision each time.

- Managing staff - this takes a LOT longer than you think it would, i'd say between 40-80% of your time gets taken up by managing staff when you get to 3 staff.

- Product development if you're lucky

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 submitting a job without waiting for a response back too, though.

I suppose Gearman is more of an RPC broker with sync and async modes than an MQ, but the differences are mostly semantic.

We used the C gearman server from gearman.org, and it was highly unstable and very slow (added an extra 10-100ms to a job, which was noticeable in the UI), and did other crazy things like return data from other jobs when the frequency got too high.

We've since moved to the original Danga Perl daemon (rather than invest time switching message queues), and it's faster, uses less memory, and more stable.

Next step is to move to a different MQ. In our application we don't need persistence especially, so I'm thinking zeromq.

I agree also. Francisco clearly has a vested interest in this opinion, and like you say he's absolutely right about implementation making the difference.

I have given a Cappuccino app to people to use, and they didn't even realise there was a difference from the native controls (after the widgets rendered - which DID throw them).

Even though I fundamentally agree that re-implementing UIs from scratch is not optimal, Cappuccino had a valid reason for doing so, and its implementation doesn't harm usability.

That's excellent - dedupe makes a huge difference in most storage environments.

Shame ZFS has a slightly indeterminate future.