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How Do You Know if You're a Nerd?

Ben Halpern on June 22, 2023

What does it truly mean to be a nerd? Is it about unabashedly diving into obscure tech topics or passionately immersing ourselves in the latest gad...
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Oscar •

I just got a laptop, and the first thing I told my dad was boot times with Ubuntu compared to boot times with Windows 11. I'd say that that's a pretty good example.

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Calin Baenen •

Wanting to program since third grade, acting on that in late-fourth, early-fifth, grade, making a bunch ov different projects, getting into linguistics, learning Swedish, making my own website('s HTML, CSS, JS, etc...) from scratch, and all the other nerd stuff.

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GLaDOS-418 •

everything is a "soft" DIY project

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Rachel Fazio •

Relatable

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Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard •

I'm not sure, I would say you know a looooot of things about a topic 98% of the people don't care about. And not only for money, you just feel the need to know a lot about it.
Does that sounds right?

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Bruno Santos •

Agreed

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Parimal •

Perfectly put

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Vincent A. Cicirello •

If the title of this post got you to read it, and especially if it got you to comment on it.... 😂

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Ulises Serrano •

I think that is easy and if you like something of this list you are a nerd:

  • Matrix the movies
  • StartWars I, II, III, IV, V, VI
  • Sci-Fi movies like Alien, Predator, Godzilla, etc.
  • Good videogames like The Last Us, God of War, Halo (this is questionable) jaja
  • You pass more time in the terminal than in the operative system
  • You have a mecanical keybord and mouse gaming But all this is subjetive and is only my opinion.
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Lucas Dasso •

Oh... I know.

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Pandita •

Cause my high school classmates made sure I knew 😭

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Vicente G. Reyes •

What's the difference between a nerd and a geek?

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William Torrez •

Nerd

One whose IQ exceeds his weight.

Geek

A person of high intelligence who typically does not fit into popular social groups. Geeks tend to make friends with other social outcasts with similar hobbies and/or interests.

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Luca •

Recruiters keep stalking me on linkedin?

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Hubert Daniell •

My wedding was Star Wars themed

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Thibaut Andrieu •

I don't have friends.

Also, last time I had the flue, I made a pong game with an arduino and 2 potentiometers by soldering analogic output to TV RCA input. My wife forbids me to have the flu since...

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nghialele •

I like typing more than talking 🤔

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Geevarghese Regi •

First thing after buying a "gaming" laptop was installing Arch in it. Yea I use arch btw

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Shane Parker •

This was a recent indicator.
Prague

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Ben Halpern CodeNewbie •

lol

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Kristiyan Velkov •

HTML is a language 😁 enough

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Shreyas A S •

Does working on building the perfect neovim setup day-after-day for months count as nerdy? 😁

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William Torrez •

The girls run away from me!
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