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Re:How Google’s Jeff Dean became the Chuck Norris of the Int... by kentonv on Monday September 02, 2013 @04:51AM (#6314151)
<Troy McClure>Hi, I'm Kenton Varda. You may remember me as the creator of Cap'n Proto and the LAN-party-optimized house.

Back in 2007, I created "Jeff Dean Facts" as a Google-internal April Fool's joke. I wasn't funny enough to write any of the jokes myself, but I created the app that let people submit "facts", and was blown away by the results.

If you like primary sources, check out my write-up from when I first talked publicly about it in January 2012:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/118187272963262049674/posts/TSDh...

Don't miss the second comment, which has a long list of top-rated "facts".

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