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     <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."

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