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Dating a Developer: Advice From a Female’s Perspective

I came across a post with advice about dating a developer from Matt Mullinweg’s blog. Granted it’s very particular to her situation, but in general it’s a good read.

For the record, I only have a few geek shirts and usually just wear them around the house or when I’m working-out. I have yet to have someone compliment me on my FreeBSD shirt, but the Chicks Dig UNIX shirt always draws a lot of mixed comments.

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  1. “lacy black teddy with an Apple logo on the crotch”

    That’s a pretty good idea…

  2. I thought the tone was mildly condescending, but I suck at relating to most females. It is a step up from advice for military girlfriends/spouses I’ve read — that usually makes my skin crawl.

    Are normal people embarrassed by geek shirts? Vogon’s coworkers cheer when I wear my #!/usr/bin/girl shirt. Heh.

  3. I’d imagine there would be some sort of licensing issues with doing the Apple logo thing without their permission. Especially given what a narcissist Jobs is

    I’m not sure about the “normal people” question. I’m a pseudo-geek really. I’ve always been into computers, software, Unix, programming, etc., but not the other things that typically go with it like role playing, LOTR, gaming, etc. While I like to break-out the geek stuff every now and then, for the most part I think I dress fairly normally other than my Threadless fetish.

    I probably used to sport the geek stuff more, but as I’m approaching my late 20’s, that sun is beginning to set for me I guess.

  4. true, it is great idea to date a developer in such ways. I would like to throw a kiss on chat and then write a problem program in chat itself which she has to solve before being my date.

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