Date: 2005-01-03 06:47 pm (UTC)
akawil: Powerpuff Wil (Default)
From: [personal profile] akawil
The true nerd does a differential analysis on the questions, of course.

Date: 2005-01-03 07:17 pm (UTC)
akawil: Powerpuff Wil (Default)
From: [personal profile] akawil
Well, the simpler version of "differential analysis" is "play with the answers and see what makes the score go up."

I managed to get a 100% result without too much trouble; of course, this was starting with my initial 91%.

The scary thing is that there's at least one question where any of the answers are insufficiently nerdy by my standards. (No one uses telnet anymore; it's insecure. Ssh is much better.)

Date: 2005-01-03 09:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] autographedcat.livejournal.com
Grin. I said the same thing. But I just answered the question as if "telnet" read "ssh", since that's obviously what they *meant*.

Date: 2005-01-04 06:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com
I'm nobody -- who are you?
Are you nobody too?
Then there are two of us -- don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.

Date: 2005-01-04 01:10 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Well, no one's stopping you from setting up an ssh tunnel for your telnet. ;)

Date: 2005-01-03 08:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jjloa.livejournal.com
I went to do it ... but ... I'm most of the time doing something that I can qualify as "work" at some point while I'm online ... *LOL* So I'm already stalled.

Oh well. Will come up with something :)

Date: 2005-01-04 03:02 am (UTC)
kyrielle: Middle-aged woman in profile, black and white, looking left, with a scarf around her neck and a white background (Default)
From: [personal profile] kyrielle
You know, I think that wondering that should raise your score a bit. :)

Date: 2005-01-07 05:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] almeda.livejournal.com
It *does* ask if you plan on telling anyone else your score. :->

Date: 2005-01-07 05:33 am (UTC)
kyrielle: Middle-aged woman in profile, black and white, looking left, with a scarf around her neck and a white background (Default)
From: [personal profile] kyrielle
I think trying to figure out which ones you got "wrong" is a lot nerdier than merely sharing it. In fact, sharing it is arguably pop-culture-focus and not nerdy at all.

Date: 2005-01-07 05:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] almeda.livejournal.com
I got an 85. I clearly have too many friends and work a job right now that requires me to get up early in the morning. :->

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