danielvinson

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by danielvinson 12y ago
I used to work at Google in support. You were not talking to a random engineer - the support people are all dedicated support contractors. Most of the teams are all non-technical and the only thing they know about how the product works is
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by danielvinson 12y ago
"gain modelling superpowers" makes no sense to someone who doesn't already understand what modelling is and how is can be used. It is also a comical idea to try to market a book toward students these days - getting even a hi
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by danielvinson 12y ago
Toshiba NAND has an extraordinarily low failure rate out of the factory. Bad NAND in general is a QA problem which is expensive to fix (because it involves throwing away a lot of usable product) but is eminently fixable.
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by danielvinson 12y ago
Not all of the Vertex 2/Agility 2 drives which were bricked were due to firmware issues. Around 25% of drives which failed were due to NAND failures and the lost firmware or corrupted firmware fixes often only fixed about 50%-75% of t
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by danielvinson 12y ago
"A call at this point is probably wasting my time and theirs." Most salespeople spend countless hours of time with potential customers who don't purchase - it is certainly worth their time if there is even a slight chance tha
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by danielvinson 12y ago
This announcement gives me a very nostalgic comfort - As a former competitive Counter-Strike player turned eSports tournament organizer and co-founder of an (in the end) unsuccessful eSports organization, this really reaffirms much of my ti
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by danielvinson 13y ago
Those numbers are actually incredibly skewed and not very accurate - I can confidently say that a large amount of the returns in the Vertex 2/3 and Agility 2/3 lines were due to firmware problems which were fixed very early on. C
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by danielvinson 13y ago
This was a firmware bug originating from the Sandforce firmware which the releases were based on - I think this one was completely fixed at least 8 months ago.
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by danielvinson 14y ago
At every place i've worked, people in marketing/sales are significantly better looking than in engineering jobs (by that I mean a significant number of people are significantly more attractive). The easy way to explain this is that being a
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by danielvinson 14y ago
Just going to chime in a bit as someone who has worked a lot in the past doing freelance design work - This is bad advice for anyone who expects a great designer who you can communicate with easily and will understand your product and custo
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by danielvinson 14y ago
While I completely agree, I think it is important to point out that SLC is still used pretty widely in Enterprise-grade SSDs. Standard configuration on these drives is 100% over-provisioning, so lifespan is likely 20+ years.
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by danielvinson 14y ago
"This is, however, the bread and butter of shell programming." This is really old-fashioned thinking. The people who have been in this industry for 10+ years all grew up without computers - and thus had to memorize all of the flags, obscur
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by danielvinson 14y ago
As a designer who also enjoys critiquing sites, I would gladly try this out (as a tester and customer) - if it weren't for you requiring feedback to be in video/audio form. There are just so many problems with this. Namely: * Video recordi
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by danielvinson 14y ago
As a fresh college grad from a non-top tier school in Silicon Valley, many of my friends are making ~$100K/year right out of school. I'm sure people from top tier schools going to Google and Facebook can make double that.
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by danielvinson 14y ago
Oh, that is exactly what I meant - the Optical drive bays are all made very badly, and intended for HDDs. The motherboard/connection can certainly power any drive fine, but the replacement bay cannot.
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by danielvinson 14y ago
The same reason why putting SSDs in external enclosures is extremely inconsistent - power. An SSD needs significantly more power at certain times, depending on the controller. Most of the time, an optical bay does not provide the necessar
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by danielvinson 14y ago
You have to be extremely careful with compatibility with these Optical Bay adapters and SSDs. I work at an SSD company and these are the #1 cause of issues in the field for users. While we don't officially support them, we still make sure
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by danielvinson 14y ago
Who are you trying to market this program to? I feel like the group of people who are willing to dedicate 3 months and have $10k-$15k sitting around is alarmingly small. I think I could benefit greatly from attending this, but only being a
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by danielvinson 14y ago
I took a total of 2 C classes as part of my CS degree and never learned any of these...
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by danielvinson 14y ago
That is the most obnoxious site I have ever been to. I closed the window after having to close two Popups to continue reading.
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by danielvinson 14y ago
My takeaway is that this is not profitable on the global or national scale, but on a local or regional scale, it can be. Amazon might not want to pursue a strategy with limited scalability, whereas Instacart might not even need to worry ab