{"id":2144,"date":"2010-09-08T02:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T02:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.b.shuttle.de\/hayek\/Hayek\/Jochen\/wp\/blog-en\/2010\/09\/08\/your-nerd-knows-very-little-about-a-lot\/"},"modified":"2010-09-08T02:09:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T02:09:00","slug":"your-nerd-knows-very-little-about-a-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/2010\/09\/08\/your-nerd-knows-very-little-about-a-lot\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Your nerd knows very little about a lot&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tFrom: Michael Lopp&#8217;s book <a href=\"http:\/\/oreilly.com\/catalog\/9780596155414\">Being Geek &#8211; O&#8217;Reilly Media<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nIn chapter 23, the author addresses the nerd&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Significant_other\">significant other<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few pretty significant sentences:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<i>Your nerd knows very little about a lot. For many topics, his knowledge is an inch deep and four miles wide. He\u2019s comfortable with this fact because he knows that deep knowledge about any topic is a clever keystroke away.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div>\nI would seriously appreciate, if prospective clients and employers shared this perception. I think, he is completely right with this. After more than 25 years in IT, do you think, that any module in Lisp, Perl, Ruby, or whatever is slightly close to rocket science?<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: Michael Lopp&#8217;s book Being Geek &#8211; O&#8217;Reilly Media In chapter 23, the author addresses the nerd&#8217;s significant other. Here are a few pretty significant sentences: Your nerd knows very little about a lot. For many topics, his knowledge is an inch deep and four miles wide. He\u2019s comfortable with this fact because he knows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[666],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paO0kP-yA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}