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Originally Posted by welshbyte
Firstly, my apologies for my usual rambling.
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Accepted. Apologies for sounding like an arrogant shite and criticising your post.
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Now, I don't mind being called a geek because I know that, generally, programmers are a misunderstood and alienated group of people within society. I think that this is because we do something that the average Joe/Joanne doesn't understand and has very little interest in.
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You could say the same thing about chartered surveyors or investment bankers, but I doubt you'd say they were geeks because of what they do. I am under the distinct impression that being labelled a geek is a badge of honour, since it usually entails the assumption that you are intelligent or at least knowledgable. I think once you realise you're a geek, you're not a geek any more as that requires some level of social awareness, a lack of which tends to be the hallmark of geekdom. Self-important and superior would be a better term than geek.
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The fact that i prefer to write code to get my buzz rather than play computer games seems like an odd and screwy concept at first glance but looking into it further we see that writing programs is a creative art and a form of expression. When you have finished writing a program and you are satisfied enough to take the lower case b from the compiled executable's filename, you can sit back and say to people, "Here, i created this, i hope you enjoy using it."
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I suppose you could call a man who makes hammers and nails an artist too then.
Ta for reading
