jeff-nelson

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by jeff-nelson 14y ago
SSD drives are only as fast as the BUS. SATA BUS tops out at around 100 MB/s. While the RAM BUS tops out at 15,000 MB/s. 150x faster data access is very significant.
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by jeff-nelson 14y ago
Yes, there's a couple performance trade-offs, both good and bad. First, as you observe, File I/O is faster than Network I/O - on a call for call basis. However, current disk-based operating systems may perform thousands of File I/O operati
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by jeff-nelson 14y ago
Its not evasive. I'm stating if you are at Google, you can go look at the actual operating system itself. Also, copies of the slide deck we presented to management - on many occasions - is also almost certain still sitting on the Google fi
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by jeff-nelson 14y ago
I tend to agree that Google doesn't file enough patents. For such an innovative company, with hundreds of different products in several industries, and many of the best and brightest employees anywhere, their patent portfolio is miserable.
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by jeff-nelson 14y ago
Hi guesty, I apologize I didn't remember the subject line of an email I sent 6 years ago. If you are a member of Google, you can almost certainly track down a copy and run the actual operating system. I had correspondence with hundreds of G
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by jeff-nelson 14y ago
The Star Wars article change was a joke - that was corrected about 5 seconds later. I'm part of the generation of Star Wars fanboys. I apologize if that offended anyone.
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by jeff-nelson 14y ago
Peter Kasting tracked down the original company-wide email. It was actually from May 2007 and titled "Guppy needs testers" - for those of you working for Google who would like to look it up. Since I left Google in January 2008 and had to
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by jeff-nelson 14y ago
Hello all. I am the Jeff Nelson under discussion. I am not surprised some people are calling this claim into doubt since its was work done back in 2006 and 2007. It sounds like many of these questions are being raised by people outside of