{"id":8001,"date":"2019-01-04T07:51:42","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T15:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=8001"},"modified":"2019-01-04T09:14:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T17:14:26","slug":"great-longish-reads-about-computer-science-badasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/04\/great-longish-reads-about-computer-science-badasses\/","title":{"rendered":"Great long(ish) reads about computer science badasses"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/12\/17\/science\/donald-knuth-computers-algorithms-programming.html\">The Yoda of Silicon Valley<\/a>\u00a0discusses the life &amp; work of computer-science OG\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donald_Knuth\">Don Knuth<\/a>. The whole article &amp; the accompanying reader comments are fascinating. (Side bonus for me: I ended up learning the names of various people in my extended team (!), who are quoted in the article.) I love that Don\u2019s defiantly 1997-looking personal site includes a list of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu\/~knuth\/iaq.html\">Infrequently Asked Questions<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The New Yorker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2018\/12\/10\/the-friendship-that-made-google-huge\">profiles<\/a> Google coding\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=duprass\">duprass<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeff_Dean_(computer_scientist)\">Jeff Dean<\/a>\u00a0(who leads our org) and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sanjay_Ghemawat\">Sanjay Ghemawat<\/a>.\u00a0They \u201cseem like two halves of a single mind,\u201d and their work enabled planet-scale data infrastructure (among many other things). Retaining as I do the most unimportant details, I now really want to see Jeff\u2019s bespoke basement trampoline. \u00af\\_(\u30c4)_\/\u00af Oh, and you should definitely read Chuck Norris-style <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/What-are-all-the-Jeff-Dean-facts\">Jeff Dean Facts<\/a>\u00a0(\u201cJeff Dean&#8217;s PIN is the last 4 digits of pi,\u201d etc.).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/NewImage-2.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"600\" height=\"758\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0The Yoda of Silicon Valley\u00a0discusses the life &amp; work of computer-science OG\u00a0Don Knuth. The whole article &amp; the accompanying reader comments are fascinating. (Side bonus for me: I ended up learning the names of various people in my extended team (!), who are quoted in the article.) I love that Don\u2019s defiantly 1997-looking personal site [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8001"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8001"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8005,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8001\/revisions\/8005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}