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I think you'll find that the deeper you go into "traditional" computer scientists, the more you'll find the problem-solvers, hackers and tinkerers that post these types of blogs. Especially in odd cases where a random print statement doubles your profiled performance.

That being said, of all the people at all of the tech companies I've worked at, maybe ~5% of them had this sort of mentality and drive to execute on it.