{"id":1250,"date":"2004-07-10T08:48:24","date_gmt":"2004-07-10T12:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2004-07-10T08:48:24","modified_gmt":"2004-07-10T12:48:24","slug":"geek-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1250","title":{"rendered":"Geek test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you use Notepad in windows?<br \/>\nThis one question will establish anyone&#8217;s geek factor almost at once.<\/p>\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>80% of the computer using population won&#8217;t even understand the question.<br \/>\nThese people are not geeks at all. In fact it may be that 95% of users fall at this first hurdle.<\/li>\n<li>The rest will knowingly have used Notepad.<br \/>\nThey might be geeks.<\/li>\n<li>Have they used it more than, say, ten times?<br \/>\nThen they are ungeeks. I can&#8217;t imagine doing text editing in Notepad for any length of time. I have tried most of the alternatives, and almost the first thing I do when I get a new computer is to put one of them on, and switch file associations.<\/li>\n<li>Do they care much which of the alternatives?<br \/>\nThen they&#8217;re the kind of sick obsessives who give us all a bad name.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you use Notepad in windows? This one question will establish anyone&#8217;s geek factor almost at once. 80% of the computer using population won&#8217;t even understand the question. These people are not geeks at all. In fact it may be &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1250\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1250\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}