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I picked up a 160GB X-25M G2 for $450 on Newegg the minute they were posted - I have it installed in an otherwise-maxed 17" non-unibody MacBook Pro.

It's an amazing and surprising difference, one that reminds me of my first dual-processor machine. It's not that your system feels faster when doing one thing (although it does), but that no matter how much you throw at it, it just doesn't slow down - a tremendous difference from the chug I experienced on the 250GB drive that was previously installed.

Easily the best $450 I've spent on an upgrade in a long, long time - far more effective than replacing my MBP would'be been.
I signed up for a newegg.com alert and immediately purchased a 160GB X-25M g2 for ~$450 minutes after they announced they had stock. I put it in a late 2006 mac mini (1.8GHz Intel Core 1 duo) and it has transformed the feel of the computer. There are far fewer pauses. Big apps launch instantly. Extremely satisfying.

The only problem is that it started reporting S.M.A.R.T. errors.
The first generation of the Intel SSD's contained halogens so Apple couldn't use them. The new ones are halogen-free, so it might be they show up in future revisions of the MBP.
Cheers - will look into that.
I don't think she's fishing for credit. She's offended that someone gets to make money, even passing himself of as an artist, for simply cranking the zoom-level on a photocopier way up. In all fairness, President Obama should be a bit offended to. This "piece of art" is nothing, if not blatantly tapping into the off-the-charts hype around his person. He'd be wise to try to calm the hype rather than encouraging it.
You totally should have used fundable.com for this!
/me envious of this idea
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Actually, it's the use of of the word "Spam" in the sketch of the same name.
Why would your transfers have to be sequential?
Since you are asking for marketing help, you should include a little bit in this post itself. Why lose a chance to brag about your great app on HN? Plus, you might get a bit more directed help from people who might know about your sector, but can't be bothered to google "Bouldr" (http://bouldr.net/), figure out what you do and then come back here to give you advice.

Good luck!
Save for their fox talk, which sounds like a thousand babies being put to death in the fires of hell. (That's how they talk in London at least. Perhaps Oxford foxes have more couth?)
Disagree. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Chrome OS is coming, separately.
In theory, picking a marketing person is easy, since the person who's best at marketing is the one who convinces you.

But as a marketing guy, I have to point out that the big mistake many people make in marketing their products is to go too big, too early -- if you have something great, being one genuine person instead of a bigger, less genuine company is going to get you a higher return on investment.

A few ideas, though:

* Pick someone who cares about your startup and offers suggestions;

* Make sure this person can relate to your users (but not too well to sell to them -- you want an honest lawyer, not an impartial juror);

* Figure out where you could be getting customers, but aren't (if bouldr.net is the product, you'll want endorsements from bloggers who love climbing -- few people will know to search Google for what your app does);

* Start small, start freelance. Since marketing and hiring are both so error-prone, your top priority should be to make your mistakes cheaply.
I wonder if it can do captchas ...? Didn't manage to do it's own.
Or, you could read the article and realize that they refute all of the arguments to that effect.
Linkbait, the article is in fact a rebuttal of that.
If shopping for an SSD at least consider the OCZ Vertex. I've been running one in my Santa Rosa MBP for 7 months with no issues and excellent performance.

See (http://blog.gtuhl.com/2009/03/26/ocz-vertex-ssd-in-a-17-sant...) for install and before/after xbench runs.
If you only access large media files (due to the very nature of media files, you want to read them sequentially from the beginning to the end) and your hard drive is not too fragmented, it is a reasonable assumption that you will mostly access the hard drive sequentially.

However, if you need a large hard drive for a database and not as a media storage, obviously random access is just as important as sequential access.
The term "price gouge" is counterproductively pejorative. Being able to get it for some price is an improvement over not being able to get it at all, which, as you point out, is the alternative.
That's retarded. Stop kissing up to Greenpeace and give me my SSD, Apple. :(
> Of course eventually they will take to building a following with innocent content before they post the spam :-/

You mean like all those otherwise sane people retweeting obnoxious Google Wave scams all last week?
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no, no, hire me! what do you guys do? :)
Alternatively, you could get a friend or intern to help with the technical work and do the marketing yourself. This approach may make sense for several reasons. You have more passion for your product that any outsider. Also, it may be easier for you to learn what to do than for someone new to learn about the product. Just a thought.
Perhaps he means the anthropologists who are there after the newspapers have long turned to digital compost.
The foundation of human civilization that people enjoy temporarily escaping from so much is minimizing the chance of terrible, brutal death dealt out stochatically by an uncaring world.

Wow, thank you for putting it so well!
Hi! Emil Hajric here, I'm a pretty good marketing person.

mail me at hajrice@gmail.com if you're interested...
Agreed. A title like 'microwave sink created in Chinese lab' would be a lot more descriptive. This is just linkbait.
That's a horrible title, to be a pedant. Unless the internet is actually alive, it cannot "literally die". I find it hard to read the rest after that.

Or is this an ironic use of the non-literal use of the word "literal"?
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Then get it replaced: http://www.intel.com/support/ssdc/hpssd/sb/CS-029645.htm
Yes, but the poster used the actual title of the article, which is the norm. This time the title was deliberately sarcastic, but that was not yarapavans fault.

And it was a good and interesting article, just of much less significance than it appears on a non-sarcastic reading of the title.
The answer is Mercurial -- we'll be making the website much more straightforward as we flesh out its content very soon.
I am about to make a series of assertions without doing any research to back them up. I know that's frowned upon around here. However, this seems like a request for brainstorming rather than a request for well researched business advice. So, apologies in advance.

1) The psychographics for hikers and environmentalists have a bit of overlap. I think if you could provide some kind of geographically aware donation platform through the phone and the site you could do well, or at least good. Maps and location are compelling ways to get disparate related pieces of information into one view. In this case it would be threats to a given piece of land, and organizations working to protect that same land. I would imagine folks might be feeling a bit more charitable after experiencing nature's majesty first hand.

2) Good country walks, not quite hikes more like a couple hours in the woods with the dogs, are hard to find without a good deal of local knowledge. This would mean a lot of research into small land trusts.

3) Based on the massive number of catalogues I get from companies catering to, uh, "sportsmen" there are a huge number of gadget obsessed hunters and fishermen out there (or at least aspirational hunters and fishermen) with money to spend. Find a way to reach them.

Godspeed sir.
IIRC, MySpace rolled their own "memcache" server... so that statement could be misleading.
Sounds like you already have a great product. Rather than thinking about the next technical project, focus on revenue and income and let that drive your technical direction.

Seems like your product might be in a good position to get some local advertising revenue. There are probably lots of smaller independent businesses that cater to hikers and would love to boost their traffic. Spend some time talking with them.

UPDATE:
Perhaps collect some information regarding the most frequently accessed locations on your maps and target businesses in that area.
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1. Is keeping old cookies a security risk?

2. How can I keep different sites cookies separate?
Quote from the article:

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
-- Albert Camus
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I thought about it but I don't want to change yet another time and use 3 different source-control...
Although the printer-friendly version made for a nicer read, I became curious at the end to see some photos, since he had mentioned he had at least an underwater camera with him.

Here is a link to the main article with photo gallery:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10...

I'd recommend waiting until after you read the article, as it's fairly well-written and descriptive without the images.
It will probably only work for the next-gen iPhone/iTouch if the rumor is true because the Broadcom WiFi/BT/FM chip needs separate antenna for FM TX/RX. The current WiFi/BT antenna uses 3T switch, no room for FM. No evidence that that antenna exists so far unless it uses earphone cord as antenna (like iPhone Nana). http://www.broadcom.com/collateral/pb/4329-PB00-R.pdf

Also, not FM, Nike+ uses Nordic nRF2402 (BodyLAN/ANT) in TX and Broadcom BCM4325/BCM4329 in RX. I had a screenshot that Apple has a proprietary Bluetooth "sensor" profile for Nike+.
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What about reading several large media files concurrently?
There are too many mistakes in the post to bother correcting.

For those of us not as current on SSDs as you are, actually correcting his mistakes might be useful.
Ironically, one of the definitions of 'literally' is 'figuratively'. This has been the case for over a hundred, and many acclaimed authors (Fitzgerald, Joyce, etc) have used it in this sense.

Technically, it's a 'janus word,' which means it has two definitions that are antonyms. The canonical example is 'cleave' which means both separate and adhere.
Was any of that jargon fake? A good chunk of it was real and recognizable.
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I think I would do this if I felt I was confident in marketing - my skills are definitly centered on development work rather than networking and presenting though (not that that is what I think marketing is about).

My point is; I dont think I have the skills or experience to market Bouldr alone. I think I need to find someone that has experience, otherwise I'll faff it up.
This same sort of linguistic game was done to the word "professional", by encouraging customers to conflate the word with "skilled", etc. (Don't remodel your own house, have a "pro" do it!") Except, in this case, it's not being done to market a trade but rather to define an elite class.

The most amusing part of this, to me, is that there just wasn't enough nuance already built into a French word. That might be a first.
Yes, you can use Django trunk if you do like this:

http://lethain.com/entry/2009/mar/05/deploying-django-spring...
Hey, I'm the dude who wrote the original blog post.

Social adeptness is a learned behaviour, but I've seen too many of my friends either go down fighting or buy into the system and become drones.

And in case, I don't check back ... you can direct your ire to gopalv -at- php.net :)
Awesome - thanks for this! I'll definitly be looking to go through the freelance route rather than hiring someone full time straight away.
why oh why would that be needed? It seems to me that in a venn diagram of applications that need FK constraints and applications that use SQLite there should be almost no overlap.
It's hard for me to tell what exactly you're concerned about. He didn't injure or probably even bother the crabs. The Sharpie really will disappear within a few days, so even if some future nature-lover stumbles upon the island later, his experience won't be "ruined" by numbered crabs (I would find it charming if I found such a thing!) So why are you concerned at all?
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It's from Business Week. 'Nuff said. Business Week is to business journalism what Mariah Carey is to business journalism.
Actual web site: http://www.bookofodds.com/

See also:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=880376

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=880974
I'm all for descriptive titles. If a title is linkbait, even if it is 'original' then I'd prefer it if people edited the title to make it more reflective of the content than to 'blindly' keep the original title.

Otherwise sites that use linkbait titles would get a whole pile more visitors from HN because of the 'originality' of the titles.
Isn't data integrity desirable everywhere?

If you couldn't afford it in production, it might at least be useful during development.
Yep, sorry, I misunderstood the GP, and therefore misunderstood your reply. Thanks for the clarification.
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Why are you waiting for apple to ship it? Just go to a store, buy one, and install it to your laptop. It's not exactly hard, even if you are not a hw geek.
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My current startup has 2 developers and 2 marketing people... and honestly, I made a mistake. It should be 3 developers and 1 sales/marketing person.

Marketing people will purport to find out what kind of product the market wants, but will overlook actually getting people to want to buy said product... sales people will get letters of intent, or will sell the product before you make it (which is the way it should be apparently).

hope that helps
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That will be translated into a few sequential reads by the os & NCQ. No non-raid device gets any kind of speed boosts from concurrent reads -- ssd's just don't suffer as much from them.
I spent most of my youth believing that there is a Hawthorne effect as described in the usual anecdote, but then on Usenet in the 1990s a psychologist referred me to a peer-reviewed article that actually went back to the data gathered by the original researchers. The article said that it is more likely that the change in worker performance was due to operant conditioning based on changed working conditions that were going on at the same time as the changes in factory lighting and so forth that the anecdote is about. Is there any replication

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

of a straight-up Hawthorne effect anywhere else in the peer-reviewed literature?
I wonder if GAE will ever offer SMS support, like an open gateway. That would be pretty awesome for what we're working on.
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That need FK?

Nobody needs FK: Anything you can implement with FK, you can implement with tedium, code duplication and transactions.

Having FK in SQLite means less tedium, less code duplication, and/or fewer transactions.

I can't imagine why anyone would be upset about this: It's easy to remove with a single `-DSQLITE_OMIT_FOREIGN_KEY` if you need the smaller code size.
Are your two marketing people also responsible for sales, or do they both just do marketing?

How did you go about finding your marketers?
Do foreign keys offer any other benefits in production other than data integrity? Are there any query performance improvements that come with defining foreign key relationships? I'm just wondering as I am currently working in a legacy system (using SQL Server 2005) that has no foreign key relationships defined (although there are relationships all over the place) and I am wondering if explicitly defining them would improve performance at all.
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it took hundreds of chemists years to convincingly refute the theory

Some observers were skeptical from the beginning because the neutron output of a genuine fusion process was never found by the persons who announced their discovery of "cold fusion."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fusion

It's also a matter of opinion whether the errors in measurement of total system energy inputs and outputs were subtle or gross. Being the son of an industrial engineer who studied chemistry, I'm of the opinion that the errors were inexcusably sloppy for researchers who held a press conference to announce their results.
I bet most companies would have strategies for this type of stuff (stealing sales, recruiting team members from competitors) -- even if it's not explicit documents such as the one in the OP.

I think if the product is good enough to get the job done, and it meets the customer's needs without too much pain then why not?
I haven't personally seen any cases where foreign keys improve performance; their benefit is the fact that relationships between tables are correct. However, I have seen times where foreign keys have seriously degraded the performance of some queries. If you are doing a lot of inserts into a table with many foreign keys, all of those constraints have to be checked on every insert.
Pretty wild discovery. I'm surprised it has taken this long to really dig into the finer structure of DNA. I suppose proteins coded by dna are much larger and easier to freeze/image etc.
This article reminded of a interesting story that Knuth has on his site: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/smullyan.html

``You are incurable; your psychosis is hopeless. There is nothing you can do to get better. Therefore, do not try to get well; do not fight your psychosis, but rather go along with it. In other words, try to become adjusted within the framework of your laughing-psychosis. You must learn to live with it. You must learn to enjoy your laughter.''
Seems to me that value is just a perception, like any other perception. You can choose to perceive value or not. I think the startup phase titled, "Educating the Market" is a euphemism for, "Persuading other people to agree with you."

In the end when dealing person to person, (or business to consumer, b2b, its the same thing) its all just persuasion. Just persuading someone to give you money for something you've persuaded them gives them value. And if you're persuasive enough, they'll agree that it is valuable, convince themselves accordingly and be happy.

Its much more apparent when you convince yourself that you really need very few things in life to get by, and that most of what it takes comes from inside yourself (except for food, water & shelter).
Receiving email, that's great. One question: Is this a simple thing to setup for yourself (outside of GAE)?

I'd been wanting to do something like this for a while, converting an email to e.g. JSON. But I haven't found too much info on the subject..
I agree; you are by far the most qualified to be marketing your product right now because of your passion. You also have a Facebook group that you can use as a testbed for your marketing efforts - they're already primed to listen to you, and if you're REALLY concerned about faffing it up, split test!

I don't imagine your marketing would require your physical presence just yet. Start off small and market to an audience you already know.
Yep, those are all grounds for interesting ideas that one could discuss over coffee for a good while. The entrepreneurs identified in the article that is being criticized however seem to have very bland businesses (coffee intern placement doesn't really capture the imagination).
Quite a turnaround from the mid 1990s when admitting you actually used the Internet made you stick out like a geek at school. Well, in the UK anyway :)
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SSDs are in a RAID0-like setup internally as it is.
Yeah, really! They should provide options to ship with the best SSD options available, even if it has to come at a premium price.

They need to let the market decide.
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I've updated the post now - cheers!
Why?

Personally, I can only watch one TV show at a time...
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I think what I was trying to say is that it's not exactly a shock that they should be trying to get Oracle customers where MySQL would work fine.

In fact, not doing this would more shocking.
Why buy the more expensive calculator with feature X when you can add that feature to your cheaper device with a software upgrade? I imagine some of the difference between models might be mostly software.
"I'm a pretty good marketing person."

"Bouldr - it's a pretty good app."

[Sorry, Emil...couldn't resist ;) ]
Versus the (previously) most overrated team in the pac-10 :)
"In theory, picking a marketing person is easy, since the person who's best at marketing is the one who convinces you."

I dunno, I couldn't sell my way out of a paper bag and I still hosted that conference, which is well on it's way to being a valuable asset. Most of the people who showed up thought it would suck, but then they came anyway and liked it and now they'd come again. This was my strategy though and it worked, but clearly I'd never get hired for anything given your theory, which makes me suspect it may be more complicated than that.
Yes, this critique suffers from a quite typical problem: Sample bias in the press. Some business plans require PR in order to work, so those are the businesses you'll hear about. The businesses that don't thrive on PR are effectively invisible.

I'm particularly amused by this guy's citation of Philo Farnsworth as the sort of entrepreneur we should all aspire to be. There are plenty of Philo Farnsworths in America today. You've just never heard of them. Just as nobody in America has heard of Philo Farnsworth, except for entrepreneurs who are looking for bedtime stories to tell their kids.

Farnsworth did his best work in obscurity, in a tiny startup consisting mostly of himself and his immediate family. He then managed to secure a patent, which enabled him to get a piece of the action when RCA turned his invention into a household word. If he had been a little less stubborn and independent RCA would have succeeded in buying him out completely; if he had been a little less of a romantic figure (the Idaho farmboy turned electronics genius!) only historians would know his name.

It's easy to meet people who are as smart and inventive as Farnsworth. They're designing graphics processors or creating MEMS devices or building robots or developing vaccines. They're designing the tiny components that make the iPhone possible. If you run into them on the street in Silicon Valley, they look just like everyone else. And none of them are famous, because they're not trying to be famous. Their business doesn't depend on that.