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I think nerd sniping is when you dangle a super intriguing problem in front of someone, and they can't help but dive into the problem.
by steezeburger 2y ago
I think nerd sniping is when you dangle a super intriguing problem in front of someone, and they can't help but dive into the problem.
- aspenmayer 2y ago> I think nerd sniping is when you dangle a super intriguing problem in front of someone, and they can't help but dive into the problem. You’re probably correct; I was splitting the infinitive sorta, and I’m probably using that term incorrectly also, so please do correct my usage if you know the correct terminology. Instead of using it as “nerd sniping” as a compound word, I was using it as “nerd” “sniping”, like nerd betta fish verbally shooting at each other from their own discursive barrels. “Don’t be a pedant on HN” any% challenge: accepted lol
- aspenmayer 2y agoFollow-up to my sibling comment as it’s too late to edit: I don’t really have much exposure to in-the-wild usage of the term, but I’m pretty sure you’re correct about the meaning, and once I thought about it a bit more and the weird way the word is used and how it’s glued together, I came up with the following: I have no way to verify this, but my folk etymology of nerd sniping is a type of snipe hunt targeted at nerds specifically. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snipe_hunt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snipe_hunt