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Garbage in. Garbage out. I can't believe how many people on this site worship talentless managers.
by grapeorangesoda 2mo ago
Garbage in. Garbage out.
I can't believe how many people on this site worship talentless managers.
- FabCH 2mo agoJeff Dean invented MapReduce and Bigtable. Say what you want about their later years, but Dean and Ghemawat deserve their title of engineer.
- grapeorangesoda 2mo agoThey wrote the paper, they did not build it. Gemini (stolen technology they had nothing to do with) says: Jeff and Sanjay led the development, but they collaborated with a small team of engineers to build and refine the database. So, who were the engineers who actually built it? It lists "Fay Chang, Howard Gobioff, Mike Burrows, Wilson Hsieh, Deborah Wallach" but Idk if it's accurate. I know that these talentless managers didn't do anything, that's for sure
- FabCH 2mo agoIIRC Sanjay was literally never a manager and Jeff was not a manager until like a decade after MapReduce was built. And of course they didn’t build it alone, that’s the point of companies and teams.
- fragmede 2mo agoBefore Jeff Dean was a "manager", he got a > Ph.D. in computer science from the department that would become the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington in 1996, working under Craig Chambers on compilers[8] and whole-program optimization techniques for object-oriented programming languages.[9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Dean?#Early_life_and_education https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Dean?#Early_life_and_educ... So he's got no shortage of talent as an IC.