WalterGR

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Hi. I'm Walter Rader. In 1996, there were no slang dictionaries on the web that took user contributions. So I created one. I called it The Online Slang Dictionary. It still going after nearly 30 years!

I'm a Software Engineer with more than 15 years of experience across all stages of the software development life-cycle. I've worked in a variety of industries; at companies huge (100k+ employees,) small (30 - 60,) and tiny (my own); and have shipped code in 10 languages.

As of 2026, I am open to new opportunities in the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento metropolitan areas.

My resume is available on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/waltergr

You can reach me at [email protected]

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Here are some cool features of a couple of my more visible sites:

http://onlineslangdictionary.com/

* Usage statistics

* Vulgarity ratings

* Maps that show where slang is used

* More of the interesting features are listed here: http://onlineslangdictionary.com/pages/about/

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http://www.offensivest.com/books/

* An analysis of the offensiveness of English works in the Project Gutenberg corpus.

* This analysis used >250,000 vulgarity votes cast on The Online Slang Dictionary.

* Analyses of more corpora are in planning.

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http://cokepopsoda.com/

* Put a pin in a global map for a word or phrase. (Think: "hashtags plus location".)

* This site powers the "I use this word - put me on the map!" feature of The Online Slang Dictionary.

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This is an essentially follow-up to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315409 “NASA's Voyager 1 mysteriously lost touch with Earth” (mashable.com)
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Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50166579 - “eMudhra intermediate CA compromise” - 947 points | 19 hours ago | 408 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50177916 - "Eight Bits of Trust; eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds" - 604 points | 7 hours ago | 270 comments

Comment · 10 days ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50166579

“eMudhra intermediate CA compromise” | 947 points | 19 hours ago | 408 comments

Comment · 13 days ago
It opens with “This article provides a historical account of the major developments in the area of curves and surfaces as they entered the area of CAGD – Computer Aided Geometric Design – until the middle 1980s.” So your gut instinct appears to be correct.
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