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[–] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

No. The proper term is GEEK. Needs are uncoordinated, awkward, have no fashion sense, and occasionally tape their broken glasses (or say sheepishly, "did I do that?")

Geeks have in-depth, we'll researched knowledge on topics that are obscure to the "mundanes", have intellectual curiosity, and sometimes gain in wealth as a result. In many cases, they tend to make non-geeks (and geeks for other topics) completely befuddled. This sometimes results in insecurity on the part of non-geeks, which negatively impacts their social lives. On rare occasions, such geeks are so over the top smart that they transcend such petty attitudes (see: Neil deGrasse Tyson)

[–] epicstove@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

If you're programming in assembly, regardless of what it is, you are the biggest nerd of them all. And I have massive fucking respect for you.

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 5 points 1 day ago

What is HTML doing here? Blasphemy!

[–] omega_x3@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Wow I'm an old engineer nerd. I feel so exposed. Zero is nothing always start at one for life.

[–] Maganra@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

As a ruby guy, I'm just happy to be included.

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I am not in this chart because my favourite programming languages are too nerdy for the cool programming nerds to include in their nerd chart.

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Therefore I can conclude I am not a nerd

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[–] white_nrdy@programming.dev 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (8 children)

Same here.

VHDL represent. Although it's arguably not a "programming language"

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

I see your VHDL, and raise with Prolog.. or Postscript, similar paradigm.

[–] Overshoot2648@lemm.ee 9 points 2 days ago

you get out of here with your hardware descriptions!

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[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

how dare you Im not an engineer

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How is your favourite language one that indexes arrays from 1??? You monster!

[–] oyo@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How dare you count things from one, like a human being.

I beg to disagree. It's a law of nature to assign index 0 to the 1^st^ th... Wait a moment

[–] sunshine@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What language is that engineer and a nerd one?

[–] SandroHc@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago
[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 56 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Javascript should say "you are a masochist and a nerd"

[–] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Perl should say: You are old and a nerd or you use Debian

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

Where is Objective-C?

[–] darvit@lemmy.darvit.nl 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Rust: you are a nerd wearing programming socks.

[–] benjaminb@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Trying to rewrite everything in the universe

[–] darvit@lemmy.darvit.nl 6 points 2 days ago

It's a shame that the Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils was named uutils and not uwutils.

[–] shellington@lemmings.world 12 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Aww I guess i'm fine since i mainly write in BBC BASIC SDL lol

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[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 25 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Cobol: you are old, and a nerd, and probably making some sweet cheddar right now propping up a mid to late 20th century beast somewhere.

Assembly: you are a cyborg.

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[–] biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 14 points 2 days ago

You are a christian nerd

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 24 points 3 days ago

I know who made this included React and HTML specifically to trigger us programmers, to that I say... well played >:(

[–] echolalia@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

R

We can reject the null hypothesis that you are not a nerd at significance $\alpha < 0.001$.

oh wait, shit let me run that again, my data frame is full of NA somehow, again.

[–] Maiq@lemy.lol 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)
[–] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

The revenge!

[–] weirdboy@lemm.ee 18 points 3 days ago

TIL fortran has a logo

[–] wer2@lemm.ee 16 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Lisp gang rise up! uses inhaler

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Nah, too relevant, what with LUA, functional programming, currying, and AI, et. al. ;)

I did an AI robot arena bot in college using Lisp. That was interesting.

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