1) Slummed it through the ranks of various Wall Street banks [1]
2) Became the Director of Prime Brokerage Technology at Deutsche Bank in 1999 [2]
3) Went through venture capital round in 2000 and in 9 months built a company valued at over 1,000,000 USD [0]
4) Sold license to Electronic Arts (EA) to power EA World Series of Poker (WSOP). [3]
5) Wrote, but had to cancel a "Hardcore Erlang" book [4]
6) Raised 2 million USD in 2 days for a crypto project (Stegos AG) [2]
Self-described "autodidact and a life-long learner" [1] with " just the right mix of discipline, structured thinking, and creativity to excel as a coder" [0].
This guy is either an undiscovered genious or aiming for the world's best bullshitter award.
He's real and his blogs on Haskell, Erlang and poker bots were discussed here, during HN's infancy, as well as on early reddit. (I just remember this name from those days).
Having said that, I don't understand why he insists on behaving the way he does now
1) Slummed it through the ranks of various Wall Street banks [1]
2) Became the Director of Prime Brokerage Technology at Deutsche Bank in 1999 [2]
3) Went through venture capital round in 2000 and in 9 months built a company valued at over 1,000,000 USD [0]
4) Sold license to Electronic Arts (EA) to power EA World Series of Poker (WSOP). [3]
5) Wrote, but had to cancel a "Hardcore Erlang" book [4]
6) Raised 2 million USD in 2 days for a crypto project (Stegos AG) [2]
Self-described "autodidact and a life-long learner" [1] with " just the right mix of discipline, structured thinking, and creativity to excel as a coder" [0].
This guy is either an undiscovered genious or aiming for the world's best bullshitter award.
[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20060624122838/http://wagerlabs....
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20070101044653/http://wagerlabs....
[2] https://hackernoon.com/leaders-speak-joel-reymont-lead-devel...
[3] https://joel.id/resume/
[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/674d1/joel_rey...