Been reading this book: Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
About 2/3rds of the way through and it is a really fun read and highly recomended to anyone interested in the backside of application development. Clive interviews a bunch of prominent programmers and writes well about what makes them tick and what it is like to write code.
He mentioned one of Google's prodigy programmers - Jeff Dean - and talked about a list of Jeff Dean Facts (much like the Chuck Norris Facts). Here are a couple that caught my eye:
- Jeff Dean's PIN is the last 4 digits of pi.
- When Jeff gives a seminar at Stanford, it's so crowded Don Knuth has to sit on the floor. (TRUE)
- You use 10% of your brain. The other 90% is running one of Jeff's mapreduce jobs.
- Jeff Dean's resume lists the things he hasn't done; it's shorter that way.
- When God said: "Let there be light!", Jeff Dean was there to do the code review.
- When Graham Bell invented the telephone, he saw a missed call from Jeff Dean
- When Jeff Dean says "Hello World", the world says "Hello Jeff".
- The speed of light in a vacuum used to be about 35 mph. Then Jeff Dean spent a weekend optimizing physics.
Heh...
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