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Re: The Jeff Dean Facts

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Post by hn_go_brrrrr »

shemnon42 wrote: post #109
bubblicious wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

readability grants a code reviewer the power to approve changes in a specific language

I was wondering if someone was going to ask. It's the most bizzare aspect of code reviews at Google. And "Readability" doesn't mean you are good at a language, it means you are good at it in the way Google uses it. C++ readability is the poster child of this. Borgcron, not so much.

Did you mean Borgmon? Borgcron is just GCL.

Sawzall is another good example of an unreadable language.

Re: The Jeff Dean Facts

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Post by never_inline »

devin wrote: post #42

The more specific the "fact" is to the target, the better IMO. - Bruce Schneier facts - https://www.schneierfacts.com/ - Doug McIlroy facts - https://github.com/mischief/9problems/blob/master/lib/dougfa...

> Bruce Schneier intercepts all your internal monologues by a man-in-the-middle attack.

Re: The Jeff Dean Facts

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Post by Ozzie_osman »

sghemawat wrote: post #162
kentonv wrote: post #18

Hey! I created Jeff Dean Facts! Not the jokes themselves, but the site that collected them. It was in 2008 I think (give or take a year, can't remember). I worked at Google at the time. Chunk Norris Facts was a popular Internet meme (which I think later faded when he came out as MAGA, but I digress...). A colleague (who wishes to remain anonymous) thought the idea of Jeff Dean Facts would be funny, and April 1st was…

Hi Kenton! No worries at all. I tend to be quieter than Jeff anyway (less public speaking etc.) and I am happy to not have a dedicated website. :-). -Sanjay

You are both legends. Your original MapReduce paper is what inspired me to work for Google (2006-2009), narrowly dodging a career as a quant on Wall Street.

Re: The Jeff Dean Facts

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Post by [deleted] »

kridsdale3 wrote: post #113
ariwilson wrote: post #106

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Hi Kenton! I was the recent grad you handed this web app off to after you built it, so I expanded Jeff Dean Facts so that anyone could create and rate facts about anyone at Google :). There were a ton of team in-jokes added before I stopped working on it - O(5k) IIRC! :) This web app was also how I learned the pain of maintaining a live web service with a lot of ever-changing dependencies. How I sighed when the AppEn…

I just searched Moma, and your note about it going down is the most recent update on this front. Interestingly though, it looks like Moma itself has a custom SERP renderer for Jeff Dean facts that came up when I searched. The example fact that came up was hilarious, but I guess I shouldn't share it on public HN.

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Re: The Jeff Dean Facts

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Post by xnx »

kentonv wrote: post #18

Hey! I created Jeff Dean Facts! Not the jokes themselves, but the site that collected them. It was in 2008 I think (give or take a year, can't remember). I worked at Google at the time. Chunk Norris Facts was a popular Internet meme (which I think later faded when he came out as MAGA, but I digress...). A colleague (who wishes to remain anonymous) thought the idea of Jeff Dean Facts would be funny, and April 1st was…

> I have no idea to what extent they still work together today

They just got their own (unofficial) Lego set: https://x.com/JeffDean/status/2006581022666928415

Re: The Jeff Dean Facts

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Post by lossyalgo »

romanhn wrote: post #112
chubot wrote: post #89

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Side note: I used this query to test LLM recall: Do jeff dean and russ cox know each other? Interesting results: 1. Gemini pointed me back at MY OWN comment, above, an hour after I wrote it. So Google is crawling the web FAST. It also pointed to: https://learning.acm.org/bytecast/ep78-russ-cox This matches my recent experience -- Gemini is enhanced for many use cases by superior recall 2. Claude also knows this, poin…

Not just Google. I had ChatGPT regurgitate my HN comment (without linking to it) about 15 minutes after posting it. That was a year ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42649774

Hopefully YCombinator can afford to pay for the constant caching of all HN comments. /s :)

Re: The Jeff Dean Facts

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Post by delichon »

Ok I'll try. Jeff Dean read the instructions on his family sized bottle of shampoo in the shower. They said lather, rince, repeat. He almost died of hypothermia, but wrote a goto in conditioner just in time.

Re: The Jeff Dean Facts

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Post by iambateman »

kentonv wrote: post #18

Hey! I created Jeff Dean Facts! Not the jokes themselves, but the site that collected them. It was in 2008 I think (give or take a year, can't remember). I worked at Google at the time. Chunk Norris Facts was a popular Internet meme (which I think later faded when he came out as MAGA, but I digress...). A colleague (who wishes to remain anonymous) thought the idea of Jeff Dean Facts would be funny, and April 1st was…

Ah but it’s not racist. It can’t be. Jeff and Sanjay have never had race conditions.

:)

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