This is the kind of guy who wants to be instant friends just to get his computer fixed.
Why You Should Never Ignore A Nerd
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#12A not ignored nerd is not a nerd.
How about this idea: if such people would not be constantly derided and ignored they may be more socially successful, start spending more time with people with less potential and start lowering their own expectations as a consequence, trading their dreams for the cosiness of mere run-of-the-mill success.
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#13You should never ignore anyone, but not because you're trying to get something out of it...
before getting to know them.. but then you should.
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#14He sure is a charismatic and handsome fella. He makes for a nice message, however there was no apology.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does it really need confirming? Even if it's not a true story for this guy, something like it will have happened somewhere I'm sure. How many people must have run into Sergey Brin, or Bill Gates or Steve Wozniak at some point when they were young, derided them as 'nerds', ignored them, and later realised that the person they looked down upon is now an incredibly successful and influential person? This is just a (whim…
Well, given that we're on a site called Hacker News, populated by a bunch of programmers and other assorted techies, I'm willing to be that many of us were, in fact, the nerds that got ignored and picked on when we were kids. Although I was never nerdy like my bespectacled, asthmatic buddy Marcus, I wasn't too far off, and certainly "geeky" would have been accurate. And of course I took my lumps as a result. In my ca…
sorry, but imho Woz is still treated a lot like nerd :)
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#16He sure is a charismatic and handsome fella. He makes for a nice message, however there was no apology.
This guy makes films? And is NOT a nerd? And looked DOWN on Serge?
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#17most people are shortsighted in that they only start chasing something when everyone else wants it.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, given that we're on a site called Hacker News, populated by a bunch of programmers and other assorted techies, I'm willing to be that many of us were, in fact, the nerds that got ignored and picked on when we were kids. Although I was never nerdy like my bespectacled, asthmatic buddy Marcus, I wasn't too far off, and certainly "geeky" would have been accurate. And of course I took my lumps as a result. In my ca…
sorry, but imho Woz is still treated a lot like nerd :)
Because he is. He's letting his nerd flag fly. Last I saw him he was riding a segway, buying multiple iPads, and wearing what appeared to be a giant cock ring, but was apparently some kind of magic trick.
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#19You should never ignore anyone, but not because you're trying to get something out of it...
One interpretation of this guy's video is that he recommends befriending nerds on the basis of potential material gain. Another interpretation is he applies this standard to everyone and only recently realized nerds can conceivably meet it too. Still, pretty funny vid.
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#20This is the kind of guy who wants to be instant friends just to get his computer fixed.
Or he might just be making a joke.