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as an addendum, since none of the results seemed overly technical to me, here are the "technical" words they used to gauge geekiness: CS, Clojure, Debian, Hask

• dantheman 16y ago
  Ahh, I see they left out Erlang.
  • riffer 16y ago
    Good point, in the case of Erlang it wasn't a picking favorites thing, so much as for whatever reason Erlang was not particularly well represented in the corpus of 25k comments that we grabbed from the site.
    • Vivtek 16y ago
      Honestly - if a particular technical topic is mentioned less that arguably makes it more geeky.
  • dman 16y ago
    On the topic of things being left out - does anyone have ideas on how to automate the process of finding seed terms for a given topic ?
    • Sukotto 16y ago
      Well, if I were doing it, I would search for words and short phrases that have their own Wikipedia pages. Give more weight to those whose pages contain a lot of text, have inline images, or have particularly contentious editing/reverting/meta-talk. Likewise search for those same words and phrases in Google. Weight searches with fewer results more heavily.
      • dman 16y ago
        Thanks for the wikipedia suggestion - will try that one out. I am unclear about the terms of use for google search and if we can make use of search results in our tool.
  • Vivtek 16y ago
    Unfortunately, early design phases made the assumption that geekiness would max at 100. Erlang violated that assumption, being 117% geeky, causing the score calculation to dump core. It was deemed safest simply to drop Erlang from the corpus.
  • iuguy 16y ago
    And ASM. All the cool kids write web apps in x86, except for the really cool 6502 kids in the corner.
• tkhoven 16y ago
  And as for the "non-technical" words, was anyone else momentarily confused about the "less technical word like 'war'"? Or maybe I've been in java land for too long...
• davidw 16y ago
  Definitely missing 'monad'. I completely understood the first comment in your list, but the monad stuff always loses me quickly.