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| 20 | <p><img border="0" src="http://boost.sourceforge.net/photos/vesa_karvonen.jpg" align="left" hspace="10" vspace="5" width="100" height="133">If |
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| 21 | we are to believe MBTI tests, Vesa is an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTJ"> |
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| 22 | INTJ</a>. He has been like that probably since late 1978-1979, because, |
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| 23 | according to some sources, it takes 2-3 years to develop the basic temperament. |
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| 24 | Previously he saw himself mostly as a "builder of systems" and |
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| 25 | "applier of theoretical models", but nowadays he is beginning to see |
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| 26 | the "mastermind" aspect of his personality. As a |
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| 27 | "Free-Thinker", his mind hardly ever rests.</p> |
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| 28 | <p>Vesa enjoys healthy and sustainable ways of life. He is a vegetarian and likes |
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| 29 | cooking. Exercise is a daily part of his life - he needs to be in good shape in |
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| 30 | order to sit all day in work. He likes going to the gym, swimming, spinning, |
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| 31 | running, roller skating, etc... He also practices dancing.</p> |
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| 32 | <p>For the past years, he has been working in a small <a hreF="http://www.housemarque.com"> |
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| 33 | company</a> that develops console games. His role is the development of |
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| 34 | software technology, such as class libraries, frameworks and tools, for making |
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| 35 | games. He doesn't see himself as a game or a graphics programmer, although he |
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| 36 | has been involved in quite a few such projects. For the past few years, most of |
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| 37 | his programming has been in C++, but recently he has also enjoyed writing some |
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| 38 | Ocaml.</p> |
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| 39 | <p>He likes buying technical books using the company credit card, but lately he |
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| 40 | hasn't had the time to read as much as he would like (hopefully this changes |
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| 41 | soon). He likes reading (a lot) computer science and software engineering, but |
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| 42 | also psychology, philosophy and various self-help books, because he knows that |
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| 43 | all the really hard problems are social - not technical. Fantasy is also close |
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| 44 | to his heart.</p> |
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| 45 | <p>Vesa is a bit ambivalent about his university studies. He is a self-educated |
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| 46 | programmer and has experience ranging from bit twiddling to generative |
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| 47 | programming and also leading of small teams. Like many of his close colleagues, |
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| 48 | he sees that the depth of computer science education, at least in Finland, is, |
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| 49 | frankly, insufficient. He'll probably complete his studies some day, because |
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| 50 | sadly most people respect authority by rank, title or publication far more than |
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| 51 | he does.</p> |
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| 52 | <p>Vesa is an eXtreme Programmer. He has found out that in order for pair |
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| 53 | programming to work, both pairs must share a similar level of experience and |
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| 54 | must be both willing and able to externalize their thoughts. If he is sometimes |
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| 55 | forced to stop refactoring, he'll probably quit his job. He thinks that |
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| 56 | optimization, including improving readability and simplifying structure, is the |
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| 57 | root of all fun in programming. He dislikes writing documentation and reports |
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| 58 | that are never read.</p> |
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| 59 | <p>One of his friends coerced him to use the image that you see on this page. The |
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| 60 | image was scanned from a rather worn out picture taken by an ex-girlfriend and |
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| 61 | is probably the only picture of Vesa having his natural smile. Vesa is neither |
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| 62 | married nor engaged, but just recently he met a very nice girl... While |
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| 63 | programming is interesting and fun, it is love that really makes him happy. ;)</p> |
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