Are you a geek? If you’re asking the question, you probably are – curiosity is the defining characteristic of geeks. But here are 21 more signs that you might have the geek gene.
- Even on a touchscreen device, you prefer to use a command line interface.
- You secretly hope that GitHub is also a dating site.
- You have more than one monitor on your desk.
- ASCII art is too a real kind of art.
- You modded your camera or smartphone by jailbreaking the firmware.
- You say ‘Woot’ in everyday life.
- Raspberry Pi is a computer not a desert
- You know that a ‘kilo’ means 1024 and not a bag of groceries.
- Did you play SimIsle or Azrael’s Tear?
- You know that there are 10 types of people in the world; those who understand binary and those who don’t.
- When nobody's looking, you hug your MacBook Air.
- You can argue the merits of BBC Micro vs. Sinclair Spectrum with full recall of the specs.
- You know what to do in a maze of twisty passages all alike.
- You want to run a penetration test on your vintage Atari 800.
- When you write, you write like a hacker (but you can also write for non-geeks).
- You know what technology wants.
- Geeky novelists are good novelists. For example, you read Charlie’s Diary and Charles Stross’s books.
- You hate paper-based paperwork and embrace digital documents.
- You work 9 to 5 but it’s at night (hat tip: Real programmers don’t use Pascal).
- Your hero is Steve Wozniak not Steve Jobs.
- You read The Nerd Handbook and realised it was about you.
- Futurama FTW
- You for one welcome our new alien overlords.
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