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Can I ask a stupid question? Who is Dan Luu and why does he keep appearing here? The content hasn’t been amazing. It’s not amazing here either. The blog doesn’

by ctvo 5y ago

Can I ask a stupid question? Who is Dan Luu and why does he keep appearing here? The content hasn’t been amazing. It’s not amazing here either. The blog doesn’t have an about me page as far as I can tell. Google says Dan is a systems engineer at Nvidia. Edit: Found the About page https://danluu.com/about https://danluu.com/about It's at the bottom of articles, but not accessible on the home page. If this were an actual technical topic, I'd be more inclined to continue reading, but here, it's musings framed as a life lesson that could have come from anyone in my circle of friends. Life lessons from people whose only achievement is working at big tech. At least for my friends, they don't walk around assuming they're smarter than people. The reoccurring theme in this post from Dan is he's not the one that's stupid, it's the people around him who are too stupid to see his underlying genius. Dan comes off insufferable.

bena 5y ago
Found his LinkedIn and GitHub. I don't know how that helps, but it's more information than before. It looks like he works for NVidia. https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-luu-37721316/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-luu-37721316/ https://github.com/danluu https://github.com/danluu
- rednalexa 5y ago
  That is definitely not his LinkedIn
  - bena 5y ago
    Yeah, you're right. The thumbnail looked vaguely like the same guy. Combined with the work history, I didn't look much closer.
samuel 5y ago
I was too afraid to ask, honestly. I have another one. Why don't he spend 5 minutes making the content readable? Add some margins, it's all what it takes.
banana_maker 5y ago
I'm not a fan of this article because it seems like Dan doesn't understand that people are much more willing to work with people who aren't purposefully being obtuse. But Dan is on here because he generally writes well researched articles like [0] [1] and his minimal website aesthetics appeal to the HN crowd. [0]: https://danluu.com/input-lag/ https://danluu.com/input-lag/ [1]: https://danluu.com/keyboard-latency/ https://danluu.com/keyboard-latency/
nosefrog 5y ago
I know Dan from a friend of a friend, he's a genuinely smart guy and I've learned a lot from him.
jldugger 5y ago
Dan's posts are usually a pretty good mix of engineering, analysis, and engineering org dynamics. I think his diagnosis is correct that a lot of junior engineers prioritize avoiding looking dumb than coming out of a meeting knowing more than you started. In this case, the post leans more heavily on personal anecdotes than survey data, so I can see why people are finding it a bit grating. And that mcguffin about laptop boxes isn't helping =) I'm not sure why he's been posting more frequently lately. Usually I'd expect 1 a month.

by ctvo 5y ago

bena 5y ago

Found his LinkedIn and GitHub. I don't know how that helps, but it's more information than before. It looks like he works for NVidia. https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-luu-37721316/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-luu-37721316/ https://github.com/danluu https://github.com/danluu

rednalexa 5y ago
That is definitely not his LinkedIn
- bena 5y ago
  Yeah, you're right. The thumbnail looked vaguely like the same guy. Combined with the work history, I didn't look much closer.

samuel 5y ago

I was too afraid to ask, honestly. I have another one. Why don't he spend 5 minutes making the content readable? Add some margins, it's all what it takes.

banana_maker 5y ago

I'm not a fan of this article because it seems like Dan doesn't understand that people are much more willing to work with people who aren't purposefully being obtuse. But Dan is on here because he generally writes well researched articles like [0] [1] and his minimal website aesthetics appeal to the HN crowd. [0]: https://danluu.com/input-lag/ https://danluu.com/input-lag/ [1]: https://danluu.com/keyboard-latency/ https://danluu.com/keyboard-latency/

nosefrog 5y ago

I know Dan from a friend of a friend, he's a genuinely smart guy and I've learned a lot from him.

jldugger 5y ago

Dan's posts are usually a pretty good mix of engineering, analysis, and engineering org dynamics. I think his diagnosis is correct that a lot of junior engineers prioritize avoiding looking dumb than coming out of a meeting knowing more than you started. In this case, the post leans more heavily on personal anecdotes than survey data, so I can see why people are finding it a bit grating. And that mcguffin about laptop boxes isn't helping =) I'm not sure why he's been posting more frequently lately. Usually I'd expect 1 a month.