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		moolcool on May 18, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fierce Nerds There's definitely some eccentric people in the field, but a vast majority people I've met working in tech were hardly the Poindexter type characterized in these articles

_l4lu on May 18, 2021 [–]

But do they think of themselves as such?

moolcool on May 18, 2021 | [–]

I don't think so. I saw a lot of that kind of mentality in university among CS students, but it faded away immediately once I entered the workforce.

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