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its & it's | This user understands the difference between
its and
it's. So should you. |
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![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Go_board_part.jpg/45px-Go_board_part.jpg) | This user is a
Go player. |
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My name is Jordan Samuels. Born
1970, I lived in
West Lafayette,
Indiana through high school. I grew up sure that I was going to be an academic, since my parents were both professors at
Purdue University. They were in
statistics, but I was more interested in
pure mathematics.
I attended
Washington University in St. Louis, majoring in math and minoring in
computer science, and then went on to grad school in math at
University of Chicago. However, at that point I lost the will to complete start a Ph.D thesis and I decided to go into software development for a living.
I studied classical piano through college, and then had classical training in voice during grad school and several years afterwards. I was a member of the
Chicago Chorale.
I have two children, ages 7 and 15 months, and they are the greatest kids in the world.
I used to play
Go quite a bit, then I quit for a while, and now I'm back. For a while I was fiercely studying
Joseki but it's hard to keep up the momentum.
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vb-0 | This person does not understand
Visual Basic (or understands it with considerable difficulties, or does not want to program in it). |
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![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Nuvola_apps_emacs.svg/44px-Nuvola_apps_emacs.svg.png) | This user hacks happily with
Emacs. |
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I tried to learn the
Dvorak, and I actually got up to around 40 wpm. But since I do a lot of
pair programming, I got tired of reconfiguring keyboards all the time and I gave it up. Also, I type around 100 wpm in
qwerty, and it was going to take a while to get up that fast in Dvorak.
I work in the finance industry as a software developer. My company,
DRW Trading, trades
options on interest rate instruments and
commodities.
I was a
C++ guy for a long time. Now I prefer
C# or
Java, because I think the complexity of the C++ language prevents developers from being
agile.
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![Quality, not quantity.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/No_sign.svg/43px-No_sign.svg.png) | This user believes that a user's
edit count does not necessarily reflect on the
value of their contributions to
Wikipedia. |
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![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Screwit.svg/20px-Screwit.svg.png) | This user reserves the right to completely
screw up their own edits. |
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![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Face-angel.svg/42px-Face-angel.svg.png) | This user tries to do the right thing. If they make a mistake, please
let them know. |
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Although I hang out on Wikipedia a lot for a guy with two kids and a full-time job, I think I'm a beginner- or maybe an intermediate-level user. I spend time browsing and correcting minor mistakes like spelling and grammer, and I try to add links and tweak pages to make them more useful.
Believing that
plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery, I have stolen most of the
wikitext for this page from others, including
User:Crazycomputers, who seems to be an expert at this sort of thing.