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Is it _that_ Jeff Dean? https://github.com/LRitzdorf/TheJeffDeanFacts https://github.com/LRitzdorf/TheJeffDeanFacts

• pdpi 2mo ago
  Yes, him.
• 12345hn6789 2mo ago
  "Once, in early 2002, when the index servers went down, Jeff Dean answered user queries manually for two hours. Evals showed a quality improvement of 5 points." ahahah golden. Will be following their journey
• judah 2mo ago
  > When Jeff Dean goes on vacation, production services across Google mysteriously stop working within a few days. This is actually true. (TRUE) Uh oh...
  • dekhn 2mo ago
    Basically, he had a server that did code indexing running on his workstation. If he didn't login and run a command to refresh his prod credentials every day, the server would lose its ability to talk to prod (as it should) and fail. Much of the company depended on that service. Eventually it was moved to prod.
  • HarHarVeryFunny 2mo ago
    That's a pretty poor reflection on him if true. I've noticed that Gemini has been timing out yesterday & today !
• AceJohnny2 2mo ago
  Fun fact: the Jeff Dean Facts was started by Kenton Varda (kentonv around here [1]), as a joke inside Google. He has expressed regret that it eclipsed Sanjay Ghemawat, with whom Jeff Dean basically did pair-programming with. [1] also known for open-sourcing ProtoBufs v2, creating CapnProto and Sandstorm, and commenting on the recent Cloudflare OS post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49182996 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49182996