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Jeff Dean

Computer scientist at Google; co-designed MapReduce, Bigtable, Spanner and TensorFlow and led the Google Brain project.

9 things

HP Z620Hardware HP

uses

At work, I mostly use an HP Z620 Workstation with an NVidia GPU card in it, running Linux, with a single 30" monitor.

His written "Uses This" interview, from when he led Google Brain.

2017-02-28·usesthis.com ↗

MacBook AirHardware Apple

uses

For portable uses and for giving talks, I rely primarily on a MacBook Air and sometimes on a Chromebook Pixel.

His written "Uses This" interview, from when he led Google Brain.

2017-02-28·usesthis.com ↗

Nexus 9Hardware Google

usestheir own

I have a Nexus 5X Android phone, and also use a Nexus 9 tablet for surfing the web and reading ebooks and technical papers.

His written "Uses This" interview, from when he led Google Brain.

2017-02-28·usesthis.com ↗

emacsSoftware

uses

For writing code, I use emacs and Google's internal distributed build system (a version of which was open sourced as Bazel) and our version control system

His written "Uses This" interview, from when he led Google Brain.

2017-02-28·usesthis.com ↗

Google DocsSoftware Google

usestheir own

For writing, commenting and collaborating on internal technical documents, I use Google Docs.

His written "Uses This" interview, from when he led Google Brain.

2017-02-28·usesthis.com ↗

LaTeXSoftware

uses

For technical papers, I and my coauthors usually use LaTeX. For giving presentations, I almost exclusively use Google Slides.

His written "Uses This" interview, from when he led Google Brain.

2017-02-28·usesthis.com ↗

Google SlidesSoftware Google

usestheir own

For giving presentations, I almost exclusively use Google Slides.

His written "Uses This" interview, from when he led Google Brain.

2017-02-28·usesthis.com ↗

GMailSoftware Google

usestheir own

For handling email, I use GMail with lots of filters to automatically file and label message (I get about 1400 email messages per day, so I have to be quite efficient to deal with it all in a reasonable amount of time).

His written "Uses This" interview, from when he led Google Brain.

2017-02-28·usesthis.com ↗

C++Software

uses

Most of the code I write is in C++, although I've written fair amounts of code in Java, Python, Perl, Self, Cecil, x86 assembly, and Pascal over the years.

His written "Uses This" interview, from when he led Google Brain.

2017-02-28·usesthis.com ↗

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