My Geek Number is 64

• Committer/contributor to open source project(s) +6
  • Prooflinks: [SLPS] [Rascal] [SoTeSoLa]
• Speaker at conferences/group events +5
  • Prooflinks: [WLE] [TFP] [TFPIE] [Joy of Coding] [CSMR-WCRE ERA] [CSMR-WCRE ERA] [SQM] [Education Freedom Day] [NLFP] [CWI] [SLE 2013] [SLE 2013] [MoDELS] [XM] [SATToSE] [SATToSE] [PEM] [PEM] [RedDevCon] [PEM] [Wikimedia Nederland Hackathon] [XM] [MPM] [SL(E)BOK] [SFD] [SoTeSoLa Hackathon on Reverse Engineering and Reengineering 101companies] [SoTeSoLa] [SATToSE] [SoTeSoLa] [SLaC’M] [SLT] [SLT] [SLT] [SLT] [CLUS] [CLUS] [CLUS] [PEM] [PEM] [HFXXX] [IPA MDSE 2012] [LDTA 2012] [LDTA 2012] [SAC/PL 2012] [BX 2012] [CWI SM] [SEM] [PEM] [ALV VWN] [SERG] [HFXXX] [SEM] [Wikimania 2011] [SLE 2011] [SEM] [DRO] [SEM] [PEM] [SLE 2010] [DYLA 2010] [WSR 2010] [SCAM 2009] [GTTSE 2009] [GTTSE 2009] [@institute4cs: follow me] [SLT] [iFM 2009] [RCM 2006] [GTTSE 2005] [MRAD] [DeBT] [MITT]
• Blog about tech (even if only occasionally) +4
  • Prooflinks: [Spoonful of Hacking] [@grammarware]
• Attend user groups/meetups at least once a month +4
  • Prooflink: [Hackers & Founders]
• Regular reader of tech books/blogs +4
• Master’s in Computer Science +3×2
  • Prooflinks: [MSc in App.Math/CS] [MSc in Telematics/ICT]
• Run Linux or other Unix flavor at home +3
  • Started with Caldera OpenLinux in 1997
  • Over the years used Solaris, RedHat, SuSe, Mandrake, Ubuntu
  • Now using Mac OS X 10.6.8 and Android 3.2 daily
• Published author/editor of book or web material +3 articles +8 books
  • Prooflink: [List of publications]
• Active projects on GitHub, Sourceforge, Heroku, similar +2 each
  • Prooflinks: [SLPS] [WLM] [ruConf]
• In addition to your main ‘paid’ language/platform, some level of fluency in any of the following: Java, C++, Scala, Clojure, Lisp, Ruby, Erlang, Python, Haskell, iPhone/Android platform +5 per language
  • Java: hacked several projects by myself, fixed bugs in code by others, supervised students, …
  • C++: finished a couple of small-team projects before C# came along; liked Delphi much more
  • Clojure: reading fluency
  • LISP: I was correcting the lecturer back when we got lectures on this
  • Python: one of the favourite languages since 2001
  • Haskell: was teaching it to students in 2009–2010
• Work experience for (+5) or a job offer (+2) from a certain subset of employers +2
  • Google contacted me through: Efrat Dagan (7/8/2012), Kevin Grice (3/7/2012) and someone else I cannot seem to find in my inbox
• 40+ tech buzzwords or acronyms on your résumé -5
• Résumé is over three pages -4
  • Prooflink: [17-page CV]

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