| rindolf |
Su-Shee: I'm not good in detecting sarcasm over IRC. |
| rindolf |
But naturally sometimes say sarcastic things myself. |
| * Patterner |
cuts his Nerd Membership Card in small pieces |
| Su-Shee |
rindolf: that's why god gave us the ;) smiley ;) |
| rindolf |
Su-Shee: not God, but a Russian enterpreneur who trademarked it. |
| * rindolf |
wishes we were all speaking in XML. |
| rindolf |
J/K. |
| rindolf |
Even Perl is not good enough for human communication. |
| Su-Shee |
rindolf: are you really still that nerdy in your age? |
| rindolf |
Su-Shee: I guess. |
| rindolf |
Su-Shee: nerdy or geeky? |
| rindolf |
Su-Shee: I.e: technologically inclined or having no social life? |
| * rindolf |
is both though. |
| Su-Shee |
rindolf: so let's called it nerky. ;) |
| rindolf |
But hopefully once I get a gf, I'll be less of a Nerd. |
| Su-Shee |
rindolf: what makes you think that? |
| rindolf |
Su-Shee: I'll go out. |
| rindolf |
Su-Shee: and stuff. |
| rindolf |
Su-Shee: I also consider to start studying in Tel Aviv Uni. |
| Su-Shee |
rindolf: and why does that require a girl friend? |
| rindolf |
English/Hebrew/etc. or something. |
| rindolf |
Lots of girls there. :-) |
| rindolf |
Su-Shee: going out? |
| Su-Shee |
those are language-skills humanities-department girls. ;) |
| Su-Shee |
rindolf: yes. |
| rindolf |
Su-Shee: I like language geeks. |
| rindolf |
Thing is I think my knowledge of English and Hebrew is too superficial. |
| rindolf |
And I lack the discipline to correct it on my own. |
| Su-Shee |
rindolf: language departments like English are usually exactly _not_ geek-ish departments. |
| rindolf |
Su-Shee: you mean they are not tech-savvy? |
| rindolf |
But you can be an English geek. |
| Su-Shee |
rindolf: they're not even language geeks usually. |
| rindolf |
Or a hacker of English. |
| rindolf |
Su-Shee: really? |
| rindolf |
How sad. |
| Su-Shee |
rindolf: you know some people just want to have good language skills and read books and communicate. |
| peterrooney |
a good hacker will know at least three languages. |
| rindolf |
Well, maybe it's different in Israel. |
| rindolf |
peterrooney: human ones, right? |
| peterrooney |
rindolf: at least one of them should be human |
| rindolf |
I know English, Hebrew, studied Literary Arabic for 6 years and forgot most of it, and have some rudimentary French. |
| rindolf |
peterrooney: ok. |
| rindolf |
peterrooney: I think ever hacker should know Perl, Python, Haskell, C, Scheme/Lisp and Bash. |
| rindolf |
And HTML/XHTML+CSS+etc. |
| Su-Shee |
thank god I'm no hacker. ;) |
| * rindolf |
hacks Su-Shee into a hacker. |
| Su-Shee |
rindolf: no you won't. one can perfectly well do nice tech stuff without degrading into someone he/she's not. |
| rindolf |
Su-Shee: don't you like programming ? Didn't you contribute to FOSS? |
| Su-Shee |
rindolf: aaand? I can do that without declaring myself as hacker, nerd, geek or whatever. |
| rindolf |
Su-Shee: OK. |
| rindolf |
Su-Shee: but it still makes you a hacker. |
| Su-Shee |
rindolf: trust me, I'm very much not a hacker. really. honest to god not. |
| * rindolf |
gives a blue badge of honour saying "Hacker" to Su-Shee |
| rindolf |
Su-Shee: too late, you're one of us now! ;-) |
| rindolf |
"Resistance is futile." |