<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."
-- Hacking someone into a hacker
-- #perl, Freenode
<Quetzalcoatl_> How do I write a computer vision program in C on a
microcontroller?
<dyf> Quetzalcoatl_: with a text editor?
<Quetzalcoatl_> Hmm.. Never thought of that. But which editor? Is
Notepad good enough?
<mauke> no, you need at least Wordpad
<rindolf> mauke: I suggest MS Word or at least OpenOffice.org
<rindolf> mauke: but in order to really be able to write well, you
need a desktop publishing program like Scribus or Adobe
FrameMaker.
* rindolf wonders which compiler will accept PDFs as
input.
<waiting> rindolf: /usr/bin/pdftotext
<rindolf> waiting: and pray.
<rindolf> There's an estoric programming language called Piet (I
think) that accepts images as input.
-- How to write stylistic code
-- ##programming, Freenode
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