[niels_olson]

I feel I routinely go the extra mile to make friends who know what I'm interested in. I go to meetups, I moved to a city where there are a lot of hackers, I participate in forums like this. I've kept myself engaged in the few software-related projects I've had to opportunity to be involved in, and those are some of my closest friends. I try to ask good questions. But there are no programmers in either of the buildings I work in. I couldn't make lunch buddies or work-out buddies with a hacker if I tried. Dentist? Doctor? Sure. Hacker, not so much. Don't get me wrong, I've got great work-out buddies, and by the Stallman definition, they're hackers, but not the computational sort.