Nicollet.Net

What does a google search for my name tell people about me?

• Obviously, I own this website.
• I have LinkedIn and Facebook profiles.
• I don’t really participate on Stack Overflow or Wikipedia a lot.
• I wrote some articles on GameDev.net, which were repeated around on the web, translated to other languages, helped people, and were published in books.
• Also, I have been participating on the GameDev.net forums for quite a while.
• I wrote a Master’s Thesis [pdf] in finance in 2007 (namely, market microstructure and game theory).
• I wrote another Master’s Thesis [pdf, french] in 2007, this time in computer science (GPGPU using CUDA, to be precise). I ended up presenting that work at Calyon (an investment bank) in early 2008.
• Back in 2006, I wrote a course evaluation system for one of my schools (the Paris School of Economics). It worked, but the code is certainly not something I’m proud of.
• Back in 2005, I worked on a grid computing framework in C#, NGrid.
• Also in 2005, I was an intern [pdf, french] at Exalead on bayesian classification of web sites.
• I play role-playing games and was the main contact for the RPG society at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. I also ran for treasurer [pdf, french] of the entire student association in 2006 (I was not elected).
• I dabble in Objective Caml randomness and have some thoughts about programming language design.
• I use Magento.
• I work for Tangane (and wrote some stuff on their blog).
• People find it funny when I mention condoms.
• I used to be a TA in computer science, some of my old papers are still floating around and being linked to.
• I once played Diplomacy. I’m not a very good player.
• I regularly play Magic : the Gathering. I’m not a very good player either.
• I was present at the Mobility Party 2004, back when I was a developer with int13 (working on Darklaga). I remember playing Half Life 2 for the first time at that event.
• I signed a petition against Verisign. You sign one petition, and it remains online forever—I have been much more careful about what I do online since then.
• I wrote small novellas in an even smaller literary society. Actually, I had started writing in college in a (parody) student newspaper [pdf, french].
• When in school, I worked at the student help desk for windows users on my spare time.

All these are actual links you can find in a google search for “Victor Nicollet”.

If you look deeper (that is, using your brain instead of google), you could also find:

• Extatica (page is down, though it’s still present on this list). A C++ 3D game engine I wrote back in 2003. Took the website down after I received a Cease & Desist from Extatica (my google ranking exceeded theirs). Ironically, on the latter page, there’s a link to a website where the DLL for my old engine can be downloaded.
• N’improtequoi, an improvisational theater group. I am their webmaster, as well as a team member.

I don’t really know which is scarier—that so much information about me is available online, or that nobody seems to care about it?