Richard Haven

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bio	website	santacruzsoftware.com/blog
	location	Daly City, CA
	age	52
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I am an old-school OOP developer. I work at salesforce.com on their Licensing and Provisioning products

	229 reputation	bio	website	santacruzsoftware.com/blog	visits	member for	1 year, 2 months
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Mar 16	awarded	Yearling
Dec 17	comment	Which is the proper spelling: “Adapter” or “adaptor”? Interesting. ASL has an sign for an agent (e.g. learner/student, teacher) which also applies to inanimate objects like printers (PRINT+AGENT).
Dec 17	answered	Usage of sobriquets in formal (philosophical) writing
Nov 2	awarded	Scholar
Nov 2	accepted	Term for knowledge that is unintuitive but obvious in retrospect?
Oct 31	awarded	Student
Oct 31	awarded	Commentator
Oct 31	comment	Term for knowledge that is unintuitive but obvious in retrospect? That described the knowledge, but not the inability to put oneself in the place of one who does not have the knowledge
Oct 31	comment	Term for knowledge that is unintuitive but obvious in retrospect? No, innate specifically means not learned. I'm talking about things that are learned, but, as Zairja says, it feels innate
Oct 31	comment	Is “of course” just a warning that something is NOT obvious? "Needless to say, so I won't say it"
Oct 31	comment	What does “our Mayan moment” mean here? Note that contemporary Mayans seem to disagree and object to this reading of the historical record.
Oct 31	comment	Word for “stating the obvious?” I think is more related to the tropes of cliché or Dutch Uncle (no offence intended); i.e. content rather than delivery.
Oct 31	comment	Word for “stating the obvious?” I find redundant implies duplication, not just over-abundance or pletoric (?)
Oct 31	answered	Is there a semantic difference between relevance and pertinence?
Oct 31	asked	Term for knowledge that is unintuitive but obvious in retrospect?
Oct 31	answered	Possessive Form of a Proper Noun Ending in a Plural Noun Ending in “s”?
Jul 21	comment	What is the name of combination, in error, of similar or related words? (E.g.: segueway) Eggcorn is exactly what you need, per jwpat
Jun 6	awarded	Teacher
Jun 6	comment	What is the technical name for quotes? As a programmer, I get fussy about the difference between delimiters (e.g. quotes) and separators (e.g. commas).
Jun 6	answered	Catchall term for “Junior”, “Senior”, “the late”, “widow”, and the like?