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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: 0.204s | 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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1. tomcam ◴[06 Apr 23 03:41 UTC] No.35463864[source]▶
Precisely the same for me after, what, a decade? Plus my spouse is Asian and I always subvocalize his name to a pitched language, so I’m just screwed. “Dan Gackle” sounds too… alien