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==About me==
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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 <s>complete</s> 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 [http://www.chicagochorale.org 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 (game)|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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==Computer stuff==


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I tried to learn the [[Dvorak Simplified Keyboard|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, [http://www.drwtrading.com DRW Trading], trades [[Option (finance)|options]] on interest rate instruments and [[Commodity|commodities]].  

I was a [[C++]] guy for a long time.  Now I prefer [[C Sharp (programming language)|C#]] or [[Java (programming language)|Java]], because I think the complexity of the C++ language prevents developers from being [[Agile development|agile]].

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==Wikipedia==
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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.


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[[Category:Wikipedians in Illinois|Jordan Samuels]]