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They lost the geek elite a long time ago.

" Hence the hoodie the world's richest web geek refuses to remove.

Being a Linux geek you should know that `ESC <foo>` is equivalent to `alt-<foo>`.

She works probably 3X harder than any geek I know including me.

Any geek can look at a description of the bug, or even the code itself, and say to themselves, "hey, I could exploit that!".

I'm not sure why the author of this article somehow thinks that geeks deny the existence of sexism in geek culture.

Thankfully she was wise enough to marry a geek who promptly told her not to upgrade her iPhone 4S to iOS 6 and not to swap it out for an iPhone 5. In fact, not one person in my family will do either of those things.

But the moment we allow geek nonsense like this to overtake the real arguments is the moment the world will stop taking it seriously.

And that a possible cause of this in geek culture specifically is latent adolescent anger at women.

When you first invent the mobile radio people laugh at you, because you are a ham radio geek and you carry around some big ugly boxes in a van.

Many of you grew up always equating geek with "cool", and have no conception of what it would be like to be treated as nearly subhuman for liking computers.

To me, all of this seems like typical geek behaviour: something is making them uncomfortable, and so they attack it on rational grounds.

When a suit approaches me to be the geek for their idea, I usually give them some simple technical task to do - like setup a Tumblr or a Twitter account for the idea.

As a burgeoning geek in desperate need of a personal identity, this digital playground was an infinite resource to push against.

Only a late 70s hacker with a Unix-class beard can grumble like that, the classic Unix paternal geek attitude of "I'm happy you're using this and learning, but I wish you were smarter about things.

It's literally filled with Reddit/ geek pop culture references and it won't take off in the general public because a very large portion of the population do not understand or don't like it.

Her quote at the end of the article rings even more true after reading some comments here:To me, all of this seems like typical geek behaviour: something is making them uncomfortable, and so they attack it on rational grounds.

Do you really think it's going to make them think you're anything but a joke?I find that the words used are equally ridiculous: "League", "XXX signal".It really feels like a little club of geeks trying to have an impact in the world and it leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Geek is as geek does, but $deity almighty am I tired of that line.