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[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 days 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)

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Who thought of that and how have they managed to sustain their core bodily functions this long?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

with his therapist 🤣

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

That should be a dog fucking a football.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Rust: you are a nerd wearing programming socks.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Therefore I can conclude I am not a nerd

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

Same here.

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

you get out of here with your hardware descriptions!

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Assembly: you are a cyborg.

Or programming a tiny microcontroller to blink a led as efficient as possible.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Something wrong with:

#include <Arduino.h>


void loop()  {
digitalWrite(13, HIGH);
delay(1000);
digitalWrite(13, LOW);
delay(1000);
}

? 😂🤮

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Obviously the only correct way to blink an LED is to use a hardware timer to trigger a DMA transfer which stores a bit in the pin toggle register at a set interval

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

TIL fortran has a logo

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

The revenge!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Lisp gang rise up! uses inhaler

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

As a haskell nerd, I feel that I have the moral authority to declare you king of the nerds.

"Ha! You think your language has macros? You call that a macro?! This list processing code is a list of tokens, why wouldn't it be able to edit itself?"

It breaks my brain.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"You're in a Nursing Home"

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (4 children)

how dare you Im not an engineer

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What language is that engineer and a nerd one?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

You are a christian nerd

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What is the bottom right language?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Perl. It was the cool thing from 1998 to 2008.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Still the linux sysadmin's language of choice!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

what about BASIC

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

It's dark... you are eaten by a grue.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

What is HTML doing here? Blasphemy!

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