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Unrelated, but for those who have never seen the Jeff Dean facts, behold: https://www.quora.com/What-are-all-the-Jeff-Dean-facts https://www.quora.com/What-are-
by symplee 7y ago
Unrelated, but for those who have never seen the Jeff Dean facts, behold: https://www.quora.com/What-are-all-the-Jeff-Dean-facts https://www.quora.com/What-are-all-the-Jeff-Dean-facts
Some highlights include:
-Jeff Dean's PIN is the last 4 digits of pi.
-He once shifted a bit so hard it ended up on another computer.
-He wrote an O(n^2) algorithm once. It was for the Traveling Salesman Problem.
-Jeff Dean once implemented a web server in a single printf() call. Other engineers added thousands of lines of explanatory comments but still don't understand exactly how it works. Today that program is known as GWS.
-There is no 'Ctrl' key on Jeff Dean's keyboard. Jeff Dean is always in control.
-Jeff Dean's watch displays seconds since January 1st, 1970. He is never late.
-Jeff's code is so fast the assembly code needs three HALT opcodes to stop it.
- Keloo 7y ago- After Graham Bell invented the phone he had a missed call from Jeff Dean
- boris 7y ago- Jeff Dean once caused an AI winter so cold, even humans lost their intelligence.
- majewsky 7y ago> Jeff Dean's watch displays seconds since January 1st, 1970. At a Hacker Jeopardy some time ago (I think it was the one at 29C3), the final round ended in a tie, so a tie-breaker was needed. The tie-breaker question was "What is the current Unix timestamp?" The contestants struggled hard, leading the moderator to exclaim "For god's sake, don't you ever check the clock!?"