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I don't enjoy these types of lionizing articles, badically these types of articles is what you give $10k-$50k to a PR team and they start to write these articles yo elevate your reputation in the industry ...
I don't enjoy these types of lionizing articles, badically these types of articles is what you give $10k-$50k to a PR team and they start to write these articles yo elevate your reputation in the industry ...
Yep, a PR boost is what Jeff and Sanjay need...
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Yep, a PR boost is what Jeff and Sanjay need...
In 2018 when the article was written, Jeff was relatively unknown outside distributed research (ie MapReduce) and Google, and Sanjay probably completely unknown.
I don't understand why so many people insist in revering others for what they've achieved. If you need to revere anything, revere the achievement, not the man that did it.
It was really special to see how this pair basically laid out the foundations of large-scale distributed computing. Protobufs, huge parts of the search stack, GFS, MapReduce, BigTable... the list goes on.
They are the only two people at Google at level 11 (senior fellow) on a scale that goes from 3 (fresh grad) to 10 (fellow).
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It's perfectly fine to revere people and get inspired. Jeff Dean, Dennis Ritchie, Isaac Newton, Claude Shannon, Stephen Wolfram and others are brilliant thinkers who have impacted the world. In fact, the higher the IQ, the better you are able to discern true intellect vs loud mouths. I for one revere Jeff Dean and I'm proud of it. It doesn't affect my life negatively in any way. In fact betting on people that I rever…
Most achievements are the product of multiple factors meeting at a specific point in time. In many of the scenarios you hint at, new problems or opportunities arose, and those people were simply well-positioned by chance and circumstance to tackle them. The problem should take center stage, not the men.
I don't enjoy these types of lionizing articles, badically these types of articles is what you give $10k-$50k to a PR team and they start to write these articles yo elevate your reputation in the industry ...
People forget how influential the architectures these guys came up with were in the industry a decade ago. Its great to read about the human factors behind the advances.
(former Googler) It was really special to see how this pair basically laid out the foundations of large-scale distributed computing. Protobufs, huge parts of the search stack, GFS, MapReduce, BigTable... the list goes on. They are the only two people at Google at level 11 (senior fellow) on a scale that goes from 3 (fresh grad) to 10 (fellow).
One of my coworkers got assigned Sanjay on one of her CLs recently and she had no idea who he was. I had the pleasure of working with Sanjay as his intern at SRC the summer before he joined Google, and he taught be a lot of cool tricks related to compiler development. Both Sanjay and Jeff Dean are PhDs with PL focuses.
(former Googler) It was really special to see how this pair basically laid out the foundations of large-scale distributed computing. Protobufs, huge parts of the search stack, GFS, MapReduce, BigTable... the list goes on. They are the only two people at Google at level 11 (senior fellow) on a scale that goes from 3 (fresh grad) to 10 (fellow).
(current Googler) One of my coworkers got assigned Sanjay on one of her CLs recently and she had no idea who he was. I had the pleasure of working with Sanjay as his intern at SRC the summer before he joined Google, and he taught be a lot of cool tricks related to compiler development. Both Sanjay and Jeff Dean are PhDs with PL focuses.