Just so I can get a better idea of who I may be taking advice from in the future, how many of you guys are shut-ins? As in, how many of you generally fit the cliche description of what people would define as a "nerd" or a "geek"?
Personally, I really enjoy technology and thus by extension have found programming to be the most interesting path to make a living with, and I overall hate the mainstream and what pop culture has done to a lot of my generation. But I still have lots of good friends at college, I still go out and do things from time to time (and even though I have gone to a few parties, I hardly go out every night or weekend and get totally smashed like some people I know, like the retarded frats). I can actually interact with people (or at least put up with people convincingly), even though I'm smart and enjoy learning I still have a social life.
I don't think I have to be a complete shut-in like some of the stories I've heard to be a competent programmer and make a living doing it. Am I wrong?
somehow i figured someone was going to say that =/
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Anonymous2008-01-22 13:56
I am a nerd and I am proud of it.
What I am going to say is true, I swear by The Sussman and The Holy Wizard Book, so you better watch your tongue when you want to utter your sacrilegious ``lol you wish''.
Yeah, I am a nerd.
From childhood's hour I have not been as others were. My dad brought me up as a nerd. When my peers were trading marbles, I was being taught about states of matter.
Now I'm 19. I have three friends, one of which is female (whom I, luckily, do not desire). Save my friends and my dad, I couldn't give a flying Philadelphia fuck about what happens to other people. No, I don't hate them, there's only two persons in the world I hate with passion and would like to shove a cudder down their throats.
When people party, I read books. When people are on some HARDCORE CONCERT, I hang out with my three friends. When people tune their rides(clever car joke evasion, ain't it?), I am hacking my EMACS.
I've been learning programming for four years. I know quite a few languages, not gonna list them, there ain't no point in this. What matters is that my knowledge is sufficient for both getting a job and toying around. And no, I do not study in my inner sanctum in the basement, sorry.
I have read SICP.
When the social monkeys (hope there are none here) brag about how may ``bitches'' or ``sluts'' they've hit, I am overflowed with joy, seeing that they will achieve nothing in life compared to me. No guys, I am not in any way superior, they're way inferior to what humanity is expected to be.
As you can see, I never got laid. Well, hugging and cuddling and kissing seems to be enough for me as for now. It's more of a sigh of love that the actual intercourse anyway. I'll just get some hookers when I want to put my penis in some hole.
Am I ugly? I don't know, but I've seen some reactions to people I consider ugly and I never saw any of these reactions when someone is looking at me. Also, if you get your friends because of the looks, you fail, fail, fail. What beauty brings are free hookers, not (girl)friends.
I'm not talking about the mainstream "social monkeys" though. All those pop-culture faggots are what have ruined my generation, which saddens me. I only interact with those people if I have to.
But I still actually interact with people, and enjoy being in the company of others from time to time. Some of the stories i've read here are of people who seem to have serious problems in that regard. That's what I'm asking about.
Also, there should be a difference between "friends" and "acquaintances". I have probably about 5 ``best friends", but I know a lot of acquaintances that I talk to from time to time and am friendly with.
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Anonymous2008-01-22 15:21
flying Philadelphia fuck
I'm going to make it my mission to use that in everday conversation.
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Anonymous2008-01-22 16:12
How old are you two gentlemen?
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Anonymous2008-01-22 16:13
>>8
One of them is 19, the other is 57 and still lives in his parents' basement.
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Anonymous2008-01-22 16:23
You can reach Satori and pick up bitches. Picking up bitches is simple, Satori? never.
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Anonymous2008-01-22 17:14
OP from the other thread.
I don't know about the others who posted but I'm not a 'nerd' or a 'geek'. These groups love each other, I don't like anyone.
Plus, I daily exercise. (helps for the insomnia, gets me tired and eventually to sleep a bit)
I am a 'shut-in', I guess because I feel that humanity has failed me.
Lastly, why do you care about the looks or what a person does in his daily life when you take programming advice from him?
Sure, you may had to ignore the advice if it where about life, but damn it's programming we're talking about here. You only need a chair and a monitor to learn it.
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Anonymous2008-01-22 17:24
I'm a shut-in, a LISP fanatic, and have very few friends. I'm not ,however,at all like the stereotypical ``geek'' or ``nerd''.
I care only to the extent of knowing the source of the information I may be receiving.
I care so I don't feel bad when some of the people here at least ``claim" (though its unverifiable really) that they have reached Satori in a way (i.e. have programed since they were very young and are thus E X P E R T P R O G R A M M E R S and are programming geniuses apparently, except the only reason they can do this is because that's all they do each day every day.)
Shows that I don't necessarily suck at programming since they don't constitute for the ``normal" average programmers, they are more of an outlier.
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Anonymous2008-01-22 18:54
Nowadays, no one really minds "nerds" or "geeks" anymore. The new fad is to hate weeaboos. GOGOGOGO.
>>15
First of all, you don't fuqin know how to quote. Yeah, I check, and you're using double quotes.
Secondly, what the fuck do you think a genius is? A genius would naturally be someone who discovers his area of expertise at a young age and spends more time, at least cognitively, on his interests than the regular person. You make ``doing it every day'' sound like nothing. Think you can do it? Yeah you can envision it. But would you actually ever do it even if you had all the time in the world? No. You wouldn't. There is only a certain depth normal people go to before running back to the surface.
Enjoy being nothing more than an enterprise developer in your future. A three-piece suit seems to be your style anyhow.
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Anonymous2008-01-22 20:53
>>15 I don't need to be good because neither are most programmers.
Oh wow. Find a new career.
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Anonymous2008-01-23 0:29
Wow, butthurt much?
Yeah, sorry, you're all geniuses. Not seeing the light of day for several weeks at a time in a row while jerking off to SICP and LISP manuals every day. You all will surely make better software than me in your parent's basement eating Cheetos in your underwear, claiming Ass Burgers sydrome. How could I have been so blind as to not see that?
>>1
My life is spent nerding out (programming, reading SICP, internets, /prog/, more programming, inventing a unified theory of the universe), doing drugs and snowboaridng.
Yeah, I dunno whats happening to my life tbh.. :'(
Also, just to add, to clarify my original question:
I mostly just wanted to know whether I was actually speaking with competent people who were good at programming, or anti-social fat nerds living in their parent's basement.