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I wrote an article on writing JavaScript in C++ using macros, which was featured on Hacker News and got a VP of Engineering at Facebook to reach out and get me in the interview pipeline as I was still in school. I moved halfway across the world from France to work there and still work there today. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2478751

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Then I wrote an article about your talk at OSCON (published on The New Stack).

https://thenewstack.io/javascripts-history-and-how-it-led-to...

You discussed how the diff algorithm improved from O(n^3) to O(n). I'll never forget that talk.

It's interesting that we are both Christopher, and that we both eschew usernames starting with c. That's how I recalled who you were in your comment.

I went with x because Xmas. And because Christopher is such a common name I wanted something different.

I wonder why you went with v, another uncommon letter.

I was 12 and needed a nickname to play counter strike. I thought about “jeux video” (video games in French) -> “video jeux” -> “vjeux”

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