User talk:Breakpoint

Hi, folks.

I'm available to write, edit, or proofread software engineering, computer science, and general technical articles.

If you're looking for "qualifications", please keep in mind that I am a software engineer, not a computer scientist. That said, I do quite a bit of both. I attended Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo as a computer science major, and opted not to continue the program after they changed the programming language to Java. I have concentrated on industry ever since, and have helped start several companies that were all technically (though not all commercially) successful.

PLEASE NOTE: I was attempting to maintain some texts and organization at the Wikiversity project. Frankly, I was overambitious, and it is my feeling that I will not be able to make further contributions I can be happy about in the near future due to lack of time. However, I believe that both the Wikibooks and Wikiversity projects require significant additional structure for reasonable efficiency of convergence, and I have to admit I am less convinced that the wiki concept works as well for a full textbook as it does for an article (but look forward to being proven wrong).

Breakpoint, 09JUL2006.

Thoughts?

Talk:Eliezer_Yudkowsky#Merge_proposals --70.51.233.97 00:59, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Michelle Madigan

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Hmmm. OK, please see discussion on that page. Breakpoint 16:43, 5 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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