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Clicking through his links to various posts about e.g. stack pointers or flame graphs, my takeaway is he's an outlier in productivity, and got a lot done in 3.5 years at a monstrously large organization.

I'm pretty envious of his capabilities, in 3.5 years I can ship a couple webapps, I would never personally get JVM compilation flags added.





Brendan Gregg is somewhat of a systems engineering legend and contributed more to the field than most people could dream of.

Is his post self promotion? Yeah, probably.

Does it matter and do the top 3 comments on HN be salty about that? Probably not that useful.


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You are tired, but you still read, still commented (or worse, commented but didn’t read).

I always give people benefits of the doubt. He posted it on his personal blog, going back so many years. Most of his content are technical in nature, the kind of things that would never be on the front page of HN.


the fact that he posted in his personal blog doesn't change the fact that for many of us this is corporate BS and should not be in the top of HN first page. If you disagree, upvote comments you like, don't try to be a moderator.

> Most of his content are technical in nature, the kind of things that would never be on the front page of HN.

That is exactly what many of us prefer to see, actually. The hacker part of hackernews, remember?


Conversely, I made HotSpot commits as an intern, but I never shipped a web app.

If you're talking about the HotSpot VM then that is a work of art. You learn a lot studying its codebase.

Yes, you can learn "they should have added value types to this language".



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