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by cwb71 3732 days ago
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

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> 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.

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

(I of course just made that up.)