This is the kind of post that keeps me on HN. I'll never work for google, so I appreciate hearing what it's like to help someone out and then realize it was Bri

This is the kind of post that keeps me on HN. I'll never work for google, so I appreciate hearing what it's like to help someone out and then realize it was Brian Kernighan, and then to have that kind of interaction with many prominent people in CS.