[HN Gopher] Nvidia CEO got a driver bug fixed in 12 hours
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       Nvidia CEO got a driver bug fixed in 12 hours
        
       Author : alecco
       Score  : 29 points
       Date   : 2023-06-05 18:09 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (twitter.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (twitter.com)
        
       | Aulig wrote:
       | Feels pushy and disrespectful of his time to me. If everyone
       | emailed the CEO when they have some problem the CEOs wouldn:t be
       | able to get anything done.
       | 
       | The email also makes you feel like an asshole if you don't drop
       | whatever you're doing to help him because supposedly it's your
       | fault his company is failing.
        
         | alecco wrote:
         | In the Twitter thread the sender says they exhausted all the
         | support channels. And note they were a corporate customer of an
         | expensive product, not some random guy.
        
         | Barrin92 wrote:
         | >Feels pushy
         | 
         | if you want to get anything done in the world you need to be a
         | little bit pushy. If your company is at the risk of failing
         | because of some critical bug sending someone an email isn't a
         | big deal. Worst case he ignores it, it's not like you called
         | the guy out of bed at 3 in the morning.
         | 
         | The biggest mistake people make is simply not asking for help
         | as directly as possible. Especially if they're too intimidated
         | by someone's status.
        
         | jrflowers wrote:
         | The CEO didn't seem to feel that way.
         | 
         | Would it have been more respectful of the CEO's time to wait
         | until your business falls because of an Nvidia driver issue and
         | then write up a postmortem?
        
       | marpstar wrote:
       | Very reminiscent of Jeff Bezos' "question mark email"...
       | 
       | https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-explain...
        
         | nkassis wrote:
         | I'm my opinion good CEOs know when to press that emergency
         | button and to use it sparingly. Some CEOs like Musk manage
         | exclusively by it and I don't know that it's the healthiest of
         | long term strategy. He does get away with it for the most part
         | it seems.
        
       | nailer wrote:
       | This is Hacker News, I'm pretty sure there's no need to rename
       | him from Jensen to 'NVIDIA CEO'. There's only one Carmack, one
       | Linus, one DJB, one Elon and one Jensen.
        
         | mercutio2 wrote:
         | Uh, what? I know everyone else on that list, but if your
         | preceding sentence hadn't said "NVIDIA CEO" I would know zero
         | about a "Jensen".
        
         | hoffs wrote:
         | Linus tech tips?
        
         | tpxl wrote:
         | I've no idea who DJB or Jensen are.
        
           | nailer wrote:
           | DJB might be more of an privacy/infosec/Unix thing, so if
           | you're a different type of programmer then fair enough.
           | 
           | He is famous in crypto (as in cryptography) circles for:
           | 
           | - Ed25519 for fast + safe asymmetric crypto
           | 
           | - chacha/poly for fast symmetric crypto
           | 
           | He is also famous in Unix circles for:
           | 
           | - qmail
           | 
           | - djbdns
           | 
           | - his init system daemontools
           | 
           | and a bunch of other bits.
           | 
           | He also fought the US government for your right to use
           | encryption when encryption was considered a munition.
           | 
           | More at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Bernstein or
           | https://cr.yp.to
           | 
           | Jensen is NVIDIA. Left MSI, took on the #1 competitor in the
           | space (3DFX) and dominated them, responsible for things like
           | CUDA and DLSS, now supplies the hardware for most of high end
           | gaming and ML, has a two year advantage over AMD, appeared in
           | his kitchen for an announcement once then a few months later
           | told everyone that the entire scene was done with high
           | quality physics based rendering and nobody knew.
        
         | JumpinJack_Cash wrote:
         | Except it's not the name that makes him important, but the fact
         | that he's at the helm of a big company like nVidia.
        
       | MuffinFlavored wrote:
       | "Founder to founder"
       | 
       | "Me, founder of a microscopic SaaS image company trying to
       | capitalize on the hype of AI"
       | 
       | "You, founder of $960b company with 27,000 employees and
       | generations of market leading advanced technology"
       | 
       | Clearly they both speak a special language that only "founders"
       | can understand!
       | 
       | /s
       | 
       | I "found" my lunch yesterday, does that make me a founder?
        
       | JumpinJack_Cash wrote:
       | Hero!
        
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