http://www.quora.com/What-are-all-the-Jeff-Dean-facts?q=jeff+dean
Quora 这里的问答真是好玩。
比如这条:During his own Google interview, Jeff Dean was asked the implications if P=NP were true. He said, "P = 0 or N = 1." Then, before the interviewer had even finished laughing, Jeff examined Google’s public certificate and wrote the private key on the whiteboard.
我最初知道这位神牛级别的人物是看到他的名字出现在Big Table的那篇论文里。后来又看了他的一个讲座,slides在这里:
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/ladis2009/talks/dean-keynote-ladis2009.pdf (这并不是最初版本,不过内容大体相同,制作更加精良一些)
他列出的每一个 computer engineer 都应该知道的一串数字能完全影响web app的架构设计。