User:Recompile



Hi there and howdy,

I'm Recompile.

As you might have noticed, I'm named after the process of translating human-readable programming code into computer language, known as Compiling. The re- is a morpheme of the English language, it is a prefix that can not be used in isolation, meaning the action indicated by the stem is performed again or repeatedly. The name is a paraphrase of contribution, which&mdash;as usual in Wikipedia&mdash;is done by re-editing what is already there; I do not intend to troll meaningful contributions.

I'm a student of life and a native speaker of German.

Things I find especially interesting are …
 * cultures, modern languages,
 * linguistics, writing, writing systems, typography,
 * learning, language learning, visual management,
 * computers, software development and modelling, software security,
 * history, ancient history, classical languages.

Here is some of that interesting stuff …
 * the Hedonic treadmill effect, human immanent tendency, that shows how unreliable feelings can be,
 * the Spacing effect, phenomenon, that shows how to learn efficiently,
 * Design Patterns, repeating code, that helps to structure larger software,
 * We Didn’t Start the Fire, a song by Billy Joel with a lot of historic references,
 * Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, things I wasn't told in school&mdash;and I know there are a lot more.

I can …
 * communicate in German, English and French,
 * understand simple simplified Chinese and simple Spanish.

Cheers and so long for now,

— Recompile (talk) 16:10, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

= Misc =

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