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I disagree with the author that a nerd lives to build things -- rather, a nerd is just really into non-mainstream stuff that the public understands is important
by psyklic 17y ago
I disagree with the author that a nerd lives to build things -- rather, a nerd is just really into non-mainstream stuff that the public understands is important but isn't for them.
- derefr 17y agoTraditionally, that's called a geek. There is in fact a distinction.
- dunstad 17y agoNot in the popularly accepted definitions.
- allwein 17y agoI don't think that a place called "Hacker" News is going to be overly concerned with popularly accepted definitions. Otherwise we'd all be complaining about the lack of 2600 articles and Kevin Mitnick blog entries.
- xayide 17y agoI defined this distinction to an older relative about a year ago (right after I apologized for "geeking" all over her shiny new coffee maker, which I had taken apart and put back together). To illustrate, I used music. A music nerd knows which years qualify as classical or baroque and which composers wrote what. A music geek tunes their own piano.