These findings suggest that users contribute to Stack Overflow in part because they perceive such contributions as a way to improve future employment prospects. We provide direct evidence against alternative explanations such as integer constraints, skills mismatch, and dynamic selection effects.
Search Search. Volume 67, Issue 11 November Volume 67, Issue 10 October Volume 67, Issue 9 September Volume 67, Issue 8 August Volume 67, Issue 7 July As fellow GeekDad contributor Jim MacQuarrie said in a recent email, "[a person] can be a sports geek, a Barbie geek,or a philately geek. One of the great reasons to identify with the word "geek" is that it gives you permission to like what you like no matter what it is. Many of us self-identify as geeks because we have been put down, excluded, and hurt by others due to our interest in "uncool" things like comic books, or board games, or computer programming.
However, as geek culture becomes more mainstream and popular, geeks are beginning to want to try to define what activities are necessary to be a true geek. As soon as we as a geek community start down that road we end up doing the same kind of cultural bullying which caused us to self-identify as geeks in the first place. When we exclude others because they lack "geek cred" we prove we haven't really learned anything from our life experiences.
We are as messed up as those who looked down on us and used the term "geek" as an insult. Ricky is a film geek. He organizes all his movies alphabetically. David is a guitar geek. He'll be keeping his neighbors up at night while he rocks out.
Kevin is a anime geek. He wants to move to Japan. Gina is a book geek. She can't get her head out of those pages! Stacie is a drama geek. She loves the stage. Spencer is a comic book geek. He will debate who will win what fight. Ian is a mathematics geek. He can school you! Jennie is a photography geek. The wedding photos will come out professionally. Either a nerd that is socially active or a jock with a recordable IQ and some technical knowledge 2.
NET evangelist Scott Hanselman, with commendable honesty, acknowledged that "I know how to say the words but I don't know what they mean," while even Dollard was uncertain how to answer. Autonomy's former chief financial officer has alleged the firm collapsed partly because two financial analysts agreed to badmouth it in the hope of making a profit from its demise.
He accused former JP Morgan analyst Daud Khan and industry colleague Paul Morland, once of analyst firm Peel Hunt, of carrying out "concerted and improper efforts to depress Autonomy's share price for their and their short-selling clients' benefit" and being "vehemently antagonistic towards Autonomy and its management.
If you struggled to get into your Gmail this morning, it wasn't just you. Unhappy users from Europe all the way to South Africa reported a significant outage. The issues kicked off at around 8.
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