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"...while they may be programmers, they're not geeks. Drunken parties are part of this self-deception." So, all programmers are geeks?
by russianbandit 15y ago
"...while they may be programmers, they're not geeks. Drunken parties are part of this self-deception."
So, all programmers are geeks?
- JBerkus 15y agoThat's a whole 'nother long discussion. One kerfuffle at a time please!
- learc83 15y agoI would say very nearly all programmers fit the popular definition of geek just by being programmers. If someone you don't know finds out you're a programmer, they're probably going to classify you as a geek. I think our culture has moved beyond that being automatically negative, however. If you find yourself in a peer group who still stigmatizes being a geek, just wait until you're a few years older and money becomes the primary status symbol. "Brogrammers" often try very hard to distance themselves from "geeks" by adopting non-geek hobbies, but still tend to approach them with geek-like obsession. Someone who obsesses over cars, or sports, or beer is still a geek--just a different kind of geek. I'm sure you've met plenty of fantasy football geeks, car geeks, and beer geeks who would emphatically reject the geek label.