Ben Collins

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I am a professional developer, formerly in the "Defense & Aerospace" industry. I was daily entrenched in embedded real-time systems, signal processing, C, Git, C++, C#. My side projects involve Lisp, C#, concurrency and distributed systems, algorithms, math. Sometimes, when my wife is mad at me and my kids won't hug me, I do webby stuff. But I don't tell anyone. I later worked for a small .NET/Sharepoint consulting agency in Dallas, followed by a time with a startup in Dallas.

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Feb 8	awarded	Critic
Jan 17	awarded	Commentator
Jan 17	comment	Is there a word for a person who doesn't think the rules apply to him? @LucasMcCoy "Scoffer". That might be what I was looking for. A "self-important scoffer". Thanks.
Jan 17	awarded	Notable Question
Jul 19	comment	Why does “bananas” mean “crazy”? Not being from Glasgow I couldn't definitively disagree with you, but in the US we have similar phrases ("just fell off the turnip truck", etc.) and they don't have anything to do with race or culture, but rather have to do with one having just arrived and not understanding local societal norms.
Jul 19	comment	What is the noun to use when describing the characteristic of another word being plural (or not)? I went with 'grammatical number'. Thanks (and thanks to RegDwight AAA).
Jul 19	accepted	What is the noun to use when describing the characteristic of another word being plural (or not)?
Jul 19	comment	What is the noun to use when describing the characteristic of another word being plural (or not)? @RegDwightАΑA "grammatical number"? That's awful.
Jul 19	asked	What is the noun to use when describing the characteristic of another word being plural (or not)?
Jan 12	awarded	Yearling
Nov 28	accepted	“Graf” or “paragraph”
Nov 28	asked	“Graf” or “paragraph”
Apr 9	awarded	Popular Question
Mar 21	accepted	Is there a word for a person who doesn't think the rules apply to him?
Mar 21	comment	Is there a word for a person who doesn't think the rules apply to him? I've marked jgbelacqua's summary answer as "the answer", although I still think there's a word out there to capture several of these words. Scofflaw isn't quite it because it doesn't convey the self-importance sense, and because disregarding the proper order of a city council meeting to magnify your own importance isn't quite illegal. I like contumacious, but it also doesn't really capture that egoist sense that needs to be included. Presumptuous is pretty close, but it doesn't quite capture the disregard of the formal order. Good answers all! I'll keep an eye out for more good words.
Mar 21	awarded	Scholar
Mar 21	comment	Is there a word for a person who doesn't think the rules apply to him? interesting. I wonder if `impunity` can be modified to be a character quality, like "impunitous" or something.
Mar 19	awarded	Nice Question
Mar 18	comment	Is there a word for a person who doesn't think the rules apply to him? The definition of the word is probably fitting, although I think it would convey the wrong magnitude of severity.
Mar 18	comment	Is there a word for a person who doesn't think the rules apply to him? My comment failed and I lost the text, so I could still go with something else.