[gmfawcett]

Is there some place I've never been where technical workers enjoy being called nerds? If someone called me a nerd, I'd tell them where to shove it -- and I certainly wouldn't buy into their product! The Canvas people should seriously rethink their branding.

[cwb71]

Have you been to San Francisco or the Silicon Valley?

It has been my experience in tech companies and social circles that the term nerd is often considered a badge of honor and is even used to refer to one's self and friends.

See also https://vimeo.com/73589975

[tenpies]

> the term nerd is often considered a badge of honor

N = 1, but in my experience this stopped being the case when being nerdy was deemed cool and anyone with glasses started proclaiming "I'm so nerdy".

I suppose this sort of makes me a hipster.

[cwb71]

No, it makes you a second-wave nerd with hipster tendencies.

(I of course just made that up.)