The Jeff Dean Facts
About This Repo
The "Jeff Dean facts" are a set of jokes that revolve around the extraordinary programming prowess of their titular Google employee. Simply put, they are the coding equivalent of Chuck Norris-style jokes (for example, "Chuck Norris can slam a revolving door").
I first encountered the Facts on a random Quora page, though as of recently many of them appear to have been removed. Thus, in order to preserve this invaluable cache of programmer humor for posterity, I decided to create this repository. It is a combined list of various versions of the Facts, beginning with a text file that I copied from the Quora post sometime in 2019, when the original answer still existed. It's been expanded from other sources, which are listed (and linked, if possible) at the end of this document.
And now, without further ado...
The Facts
Jeff Dean proved that P=NP when he solved all NP problems in polynomial time on a whiteboard.
Jeff Dean's PIN is the last 4 digits of pi.
When Jeff gives a seminar at Stanford, it's so crowded Don Knuth has to sit on the floor. ( TRUE )
) Jeff Dean once bit a spider, the spider got super powers and C++ readability.
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