RE: Anyone else that fucked up?

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?

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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.