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Dang is going to have 65,535 karma points soon

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600 points codetrotter | 1 comments | 05 Apr 23 21:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | source
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eddyg ◴[06 Apr 23 00:40 UTC] No.35462564[source]▶
Reminder: Dang stands for “Dan G.” (seems like a lot of people don’t realize that!)
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tastysandwich ◴[06 Apr 23 00:43 UTC] No.35462586[source]▶
I must admit, for a very long time I thought he was Vietnamese, as Dang is a Vietnamese name.

Interestingly, I'm finding it hard to shake that initial visual image, even though I know it's wrong. Brains are weird.

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dang ◴[06 Apr 23 01:40 UTC] No.35463012[source]▶
It would be my honor. But the origins of the name are (1) it's my first name plus initial; (2) it was my email address at my first job; and (3) it's what you say when you make a mistake, which I knew there would be a lot of.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7494093

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7494440

bonus credit to DonHopkins https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18513120

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1. berkeleyjunk ◴[06 Apr 23 01:58 UTC] No.35463165[source]▶
I always thought it was 3)