Regular reddit lurker; Moderator of dozens of sub reedits including r/sex, author of jquery, so many continuous regular iterations, evangelist of js at Mozilla, now at khan academy.<p>A man. A machine.
I think he's a bit too bullish on Closure Compiler's advanced compilation mode. It's nice, but if you don't have an extern file for each additional third party library you use, or forget to use dictionary syntax to access properties that CC doesn't know about, your code will fail cryptically and almost silently.
you might be interested in his work on mining IM networks for terrorist cells:<p>"A Framework for Mining Instant Messaging Services" <a href="http://faculty.washington.edu/ankurt/Publications_files/SIAMPaper.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://faculty.washington.edu/ankurt/Publications_files/SIAM...</a>