Only sharing this because I learned it myself two months ago and think it's not common knowledge: dang actually is for dan g. and not just the word dang. he never speaks on it but someone mentioned it to me and I thought that was interesting. Anyway yes thank you dan!

Thanks that's good to know, I updated my comment.

He's also allegedly "muscular, bald, and loquacious"!

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...

dang, didn't know that.

I think you're confusing dang with someone else. dang is actually Da Ng, a Malaysian Chinese hacker extraordinare

Yep! His name is Daniel Gackle, here is a 10 year old YN blog from pg introducing him and others:

https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/meet-the-people-taking-over...

Look's like its almost 10 years since he officially joined full-time. We should have a party.