Do you have coderlust?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Thanks to the miracles of IRC I chatted with a group of friends and the term “coderlust” came up, my friend had made it up to define her undeniable attraction to the geeks of the world.

I have to admit that a woman who can program is rather attractive though I must say I’m a bit biased with my CS degree and all.

We also came up with a verb form which isn’t truly related to the earlier definition. Coderlust, like wanderlust, can also be the undeniable urge to program and code something - no matter what it is, just to put something in C, Fortran, Java, Visual Basic etc…

I think this thread is just an excuse for me to spread the word “coderlust.” I won’t take credit for coming up with it but I do love it, I want it on a T-shirt.

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Well, my SO has coderlust–he spends his days coding. And since he’s a coder, I guess I have coderlust of a different flavor. :wink: Mmmm, I do love those uber-geeks!

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Well, that makes two of us. ALthough, I am undeniably a geek - I can code, I’m a physicist, and various other attributes that were discussed in a IMHO thread searching for geeks, makes me well and truly a geek. And I lurve me some geek boys also. :slight_smile:

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Heh. It works both ways.

When my not-quite-yet-husband told his coworkers that he had become engaged, they said

“That’s great. [pause] Does she code?”

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Upon seeing the thread title, this was my first interpretation as to what it would be. Nice term – I like it.

Let’s see, I teach a C++ class… “Object-OrientedLust”. No… just doesn’t have the same ring to it. :wink:

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Yeah, I have “coderlust” in both senses of the word. I’ve been a programmer for quite a number of years now, in wide range of languages; most are self-taught just because it was another language I wanted to know.

Cute gals that can code are seckseh!

I’ll settle for a gamer-girl though.

–IDB

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shrugs I can do girl that can code. Cute is beyond me however.

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Ah, you don’t do yourself justice. I saw your picture in the “Put a face to the name” thread. You are TOO cute. :slight_smile:

So there. By definition, you are now “seckseh!”

–IDB

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Ooohh… :cool:

Are you sure you saw the correct person??? Those DopeFest photos had lots of Dopers on them after all…

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One of my best friends has a steady now.

She programs for a living (albeit in Visual Studio, save your jeers… she’s quite tech-saavvy).

She bought an Xbox, which was the only console system my friend didn’t own on his own.

She loaned him her AD&D books for use a s references during our gaming sessions. And, she’s helping him paint his lead figurines.

Where are the other three women like that? sigh

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Yep! Absotively. No trying to shirk your title, now. :wink:

–IDB

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Oooh… So, I’m officially “seckseh” now? :smiley:

Yay! Now that, coupled with being told that I barely look 20 has made my entire week… :smiley:

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Coderlust? No, not in either aspect of the word. Except when there is a functional application I want to code, and I know just how to do it! But i’m not one to go for “elegance” or tricks, my code is butt-ugly, and so therefore, not the object of lust!

Coderlust of the other kind: yeah, in theory. But while there are female scientists out there who display excellence enough to melt my heart, I haven’t seen the equivalent virtuosity in programmers. Perhaps I don’t get out enough :slight_smile:

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Have coderlust?

No I don’t think so. Although I did my share of experimenting while in my 20’s I am most assuredly heterosexual.

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Woohoo, coder babes are the best.

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Oh, and just for the record, I’m a scientist, as opposed to a progammer, but I can code.

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Wooooohooooo! :smiley:

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Did I mention, I’m an astrophysicist? :wink:

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Geeks are the best. I <3 geeks. I AM a geek.

My coding prowess is sadly limited. I can do a little bit of HTML, which I know isn’t exactly coding.

Do I get bonus brownie points because I wrote - and used to update - my little daily links page in Notepad?

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Not even, Hamadryad. If you wrote a LISP-binding in Emacs to pull it out of your broswer cache, I’d be more likely to support your quest for geek status, though.

I did mine in Perl, but only because I wasn’t using Emacs on the host I did my browsing from at the time. :slight_smile: