You coded a Free SWAN application, hooray for you! But that doesn't make you a "geek".
You're using a very loose definition of what a "geek" is. What you've done is just work with the tools that someone else wrote. Doing research is "geeky".
Otherwise it's the same thing as reading a ton of manuals and figuring how to do stuff. Your unix/linux knowledge may not be condensed into a regular car/bike manual & you would have to glean it from a variety of sources like friends, internet etc., You may apply your "sophisticated" knowledge to solve customer problems, but it still is akin to what a mechanic does in an auto shop.
I am not berating mechanics. There's honor in doing any kind of work. But what I do take exception to is the increasing number of wannabe "geeks".
If you really want to be a geek, try doing some orignal research. Any thing. Even for fun.
It could be like the genetic scheduling algorithm for the linux kernel that some guy wrote a while back, that was featured in/. a while back. Granted, it may turn out that it doesn't work very well. But it was a very novel approach. And that is worth infinitely than what you did my friend. That is being a "geek". Otherwise you're just like the majority population on/. , a very sharp "manual reader".
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You coded a Free SWAN application, hooray for you! But that doesn't make you a "geek".
/. a while back. Granted, it may turn out that it doesn't work very well. But it was a very novel approach. And that is worth infinitely than what you did my friend. That is being a "geek". Otherwise you're just like the majority population on /. , a very sharp "manual reader".
You're using a very loose definition of what a "geek" is. What you've done is just work with the tools that someone else wrote. Doing research is "geeky".
Otherwise it's the same thing as reading a ton of manuals and figuring how to do stuff. Your unix/linux knowledge may not be condensed into a regular car/bike manual & you would have to glean it from a variety of sources like friends, internet etc., You may apply your "sophisticated" knowledge to solve customer problems, but it still is akin to what a mechanic does in an auto shop.
I am not berating mechanics. There's honor in doing any kind of work. But what I do take exception to is the increasing number of wannabe "geeks".
If you really want to be a geek, try doing some orignal research. Any thing. Even for fun.
It could be like the genetic scheduling algorithm for the linux kernel that some guy wrote a while back, that was featured in