>I'd qualify myself as fitting in the norm of young CS students I say this in total seriousness, and with no ill intent: based on a number of CS twenty-somethi

>I'd qualify myself as fitting in the norm of young CS students I say this in total seriousness, and with no ill intent: based on a number of CS twenty-something males that I've met in the Valley and Seattle over the last couple years, an unusual interest in lingerie is not necessarily that inaccurate of a prediction... Which doesn't entirely surprise me anymore. Competent, self taught hackers tend to represent the upper tail of intelligence, and it seems to me that having such interests from a young age correlates with a number of unusual and perhaps less than socially acceptable interests. Which would probably be influenced by a lifetime of trouble "fitting in", something I suspect is a disproportionately familiar experience to many of us on HN.