A list of Jeff Dean facts

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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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