User:Dandv

About

Hi 👋! I'm Dan Dascalescu, a former software engineer at Google, and the co-founder of Blueseed, the startup ship for entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley's international waters. Previously, I founded the Quantified Self Forum, worked in software localization at Yahoo! and in satellite communications in Belgium. I have a degree in Computer Science from the University of Galați, Romania.

Interests: slow travel, transhumanism, social psychology, life extension, fitness, improv comedy, self-improvement and the Quantified Self movement, emerging technologies (nano-bio-info-cogno), entrepreneurship, philosophy (ethics, atheism), critical thinking, behavioral economics, web development, open source software development, seasteading, digital rights, knowledge management, film, literature (mostly non-fiction), public speaking (Toastmasters), market research, humor, photography, travel, writing, debate, thought experiments, rock climbing, cooking (or avoiding it). Occasionally: camping, hiking, swimming, skiing, rafting, sky diving, ziplining, spelunking.

More on my personal wiki.

Communication

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they'reThis user thinks that there are too many people who don’t know that they're worse than their own children at spelling!

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it'sIt's really not that hard to use each word in its proper manner.

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Contributions to Wikipedia

This user has been on Wikipedia for 19 years, 10 months and 11 days.

I've been a Wikipedia editor since 2005. I started with correcting typos and fighting spam and vandalism, then I gradually moved to researching references, creating sections and new articles. Here is the list of my contributions.

Wikipedia articles I created

• Agoric (2021-Mar-05) - smart contracts company
• Testnet (2021-Mar-04) - blockchain concept
• Blockchain oracle (2021-Mar-04)
• Steven Gundry (2017-May-10) - due to the hype around his Plant Paradox book.
• Double Commander (2016-Aug-03) - revamped the page.
• Restrictions on geographic data in China (2015-Apr-06) - because no Chinese GPS user bothered to clearly explain on Wikipedia the obscure but pervasive problem caused by GCJ-02
• Tencent Maps (2015-Apr-05) - another Chinese map provider that shows everything in the world but China as unexplored #culturefail
• Baidu Maps (2015-Apr-05) - Chinese map provider that shows everything in the world but China as unexplored, but has highly detailed SimCity-like pixel art renderings for major Chinese cities
• Google barges (2013-Oct-30) - four mysterious barges, two of which had superstructures that some thought would be used as data centers or Google Glass
• BAM Energy Group (2013-Jun-30) - company that installed the largest array of solar panels on a cruise ship. (mirror)
• Michael Aytes (2013-May-15)
• H-3 visa (2013-Mar-14)
• Fuqi International (2012-Nov-18)
• MELA Sciences (2012-Nov-17)
• Medivation (2012-Nov-17)
• Oceanic Six (resurrected 2012-Sep-15)
• Seed accelerator (practically rewrote it from scratch on 2012-Sep-14)
• Opus Casino (2012-Aug-28) - cruiseferry
• Mirage I (2012-Aug-27) - cruiseferry
• EB-2 visa (practically rewrote it from scratch on 2012-Aug-27)
• EB-3 visa (2012-Aug-23)
• Princess Daphne (2012-Apr-26)
• International Shipping Partners
• Quantified Self
• Tradable sector
• Darrel Ray
• Protect IP Act
• Knudsen force - funny how in 10 years, nothing of substance has been added
• MojoMojo - in the meantime deleted by deletionists with nothing better to do
• ZOC (software)
• Axure RP
• Customer Feedback Management services
• Oscillator (technical_analysis)
• Informed for LIFE

Wikipedia article sections

This is a list of some article sections I created, so I can easily keep an eye on the activity of zealous deletionists.

• Louise Hay#Ideas and teachings - 2022-Jan-28 (restored the Ideas and Teachings section of this deluded charlatan)
• DTS_(sound_system)#Play-Fi - 2017-Apr-12 because none of users of the multi-billion dollar wireless audio industry bothered to write about the open Play-Fi standard on Wikipedia (but of course, we have Sonos)
• Killifish#Evolved resistance to extreme levels of toxicity - 2016-Dec-13
• Valsalva_maneuver#Weightlifting - 2015-Jun-08
• StackOverflow#Statistics and Criticism - 2014-Feb-25; once again after it was removed
• Slingshot (water vapor distillation system) - drastically reorganized and updated the article. The amazingly little interest that this breakthrough invention has received from Wikipedians is perfect evidence of Wikipedia:Systemic bias. With cheap access to clean water goes lack of concern with small-scale low-cost water purification technology.
• General Electric - Focus Forward - Short Films/Big Ideas - 2013-Jul-09
• Silicon_Valley#Demographics - 2013-Jul-07
• Windows Movie Maker#Criticism - 2013-Jul-06
• Mike Gogulski#Bitcoin - 2013-Jul-04
• New York Mercantile Exchange#Leadership - 2013-Jun-15
• Hector Ruiz#Political views - 2013-May-11
• Punta Mita#Entrepreneurial ecosystem - 2013-May-06
• Chris Hadfield#Social media - 2013-Feb-24
• GitHub#Revenue_model - 2013-Feb-08 (since deleted)
• Right of first refusal#In venture capital - 2012-Sep-29
• EB-5 visa#Targeted Employment Areas - 2012-Feb-08
• NineSigma#Competitors - 2011-Dec-29 (deleted by folks with nothing better to do)
• Economy of the Bahamas#Taxation - 2011-Dec-23
• B visa#Cost, B visa#Validity period and duration of stay - 2011-Nov-05
• URL redirection#Removing_referer_information - 2011-Jun-25 (since deleted)
• Comparison of Internet forum software#User-friendly_URLs - 2011-Jun-21
• Self-fulfilling prophecies in sports - 2011-Jun-02
• Comparison of photo sharing websites - 2008-Sep-17

Wikipedia categories

• Activity trackers - 2014-04-11
• Places with bioluminiscence - 2013-Dec-04 (though it doesn't show in the logs)

Wikipedia proposals

• Notability of FOSS - current draft, work in progress
• RFC:Notability of free open source software - older version

Core stance

This user believes in materialism, the belief that everything that exists is made of matter. ANAL 4This user advocates good grammar usage. USThis user uses American English. 00:00This user uses 24-hour time. This user lives in or hails from the U.S. State of California. This user loves knowledge. This user loathes, but is forced to observe, daylight saving time. 2024-11-14This user uses ISO-8601 to express dates. This user took the red pill, not the blue pill. AIM-AbleThis user understands AIM talk perfectly well, but does not seriously use it. Ever. 10This user realizes that there are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who do not. ?met?This user prefers metric units and cannot figure out why Americans and Brits have such a hard time with them. This user accepts evolution as a biological fact. This user believes in the separation of religion and state.* This user is a skeptic. Majority ≠ right This user recognizes that even if 300,000,000 people make the same mistake, it's still a mistake. God made this user an atheist. Do you question his wisdom? "…"! US vs. UKThis user uses "logical quotation marks". Forcing internal punctuation leads to factual errors. It's not a nationalistic style issue! Speliŋ RəfɔrmThis user thinks spelling should be phonetic, and uses or has created a writing system for this purpose.

Intellectual profile

This user is interested in nanotechnology. XDThis user is interested in comedy, and may enjoy writing or performing it. This user enjoys writing. This user enjoys optical illusions, especially the impossible constructions of M.C. Escher. This user enjoys photography. fan-2 This user will watch Seinfeld at every opportunity. fan-2 This user will watch The Outer Limits at every opportunity. FrThis user is a fan of F•R•I•E•N•D•S This user finds TV mind numbing and doesn't want to watch it. This user has just crossed into... The Twilight Zone. This user is fascinated by chaos theory. This user reads self-help books.

Literature

This user loves to read. This user is a fan of Dune. This user's hero is Isaac Asimov. This user's personal hero is Carl Sagan. This user knows who the true Father of Science Fiction is.

Professional qualifications and memberships

This user is a software engineer. MThis user is a member of Mensa. ACADEMIC JOURNALThis user has had his/her work published in an academic journal. BCISThis user has a Bachelor of Computer and Information Science degree. OSrcThis user contributes to Open Source projects.

Political views

This user supports recycling. This user supports public transit. This user is highly against nazism. This user is against DRM. PC This user is pro-choice. This user supports renewable energy. This user finds censorship offensive. This user supports the ban on smoking in public places. This user participated in the Earth Hour event. This user is straight but not narrow. This user supports immigration and the right to travel freely upon the planet we share. This user supports both straight and gay marriages, and is against any restrictions on who can marry.

Software

Perl-4This user is an expert Perl programmer. re-4This user writes expert regular expressions. postgresThis user writes programs that access PostgreSQL. HTML-4This user is an expert HTML user. js-4This user is an expert JavaScript programmer. css-4This user is an expert Cascading Style Sheets user. XML-3This user is an advanced XML coder. PHP-3This user is an advanced PHP programmer. This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox. This user contributes using Opera. C-NThis user has written C compilers, or tweaked C runtime libraries in Assembly language. This user uses Gmail as a primary email service. This user uses Pidgin to chat on multiple instant messaging networks. FoobarThis user uses foobar2000. This user contributes while using VLC Media Player. This user uses Google Maps. This user uses Google as a primary search engine. This user once used DOS back in the day. /.This user has a Slashdot account. W3CThis user believes in compliance with W3C standards. No iPod This user does not use an iPod and does not wish to own one.. UBX(){   UBX(); } This user loves Recursion! UBX(){   UBX(); } This user loves Recursion! UBX(){   UBX(); } This user loves Recursion! UBX(){   UBX(); } This user loves Recursion! UBX(){   UBX(); } This user loves Recursion! This user contributes using Ubuntu.

Wikipedia-related

This user is a member of the Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians. The motto of the AIW is conservata veritate, which translates to "with the preserved truth". This motto reflects the inclusionist desire to change Wikipedia only when no knowledge would be lost as a result.

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This user is a participant in WikiProject Ships.

This user contributes to OpenStreetMap.

Me elsewhere

This user maintains a blog at Dan Dascalescu's blog.

This user keeps delicious weblinks as dandvd.

This user has a channel on YouTube.