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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2014, @08:19PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2014, @08:19PM (#7018)

    I have an iPhone and an iPad. I'm, like, such a nerd!

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  • (Score: 1) by Acabatag on Wednesday February 26 2014, @12:25AM

    by Acabatag (2885) on Wednesday February 26 2014, @12:25AM (#7107)

    I have a Newton, as well as hardware only powerful enough that it runs CP/M-80.

    But it's my soldering iron, and the fact that I own more than three wire strippers that makes me self-identify as a nerd. Also that I know what TTL stands for.

    • (Score: 5, Funny) by bigjimslade on Wednesday February 26 2014, @02:32AM

      by bigjimslade (212) on Wednesday February 26 2014, @02:32AM (#7150)

      i like that. geeks here need to rank according to the types of wire strippers they have.

      30 gauge strippers, you're a digital geek, and you only care about having enough voltage for a logic 1.
      12 gauge strippers, you're a power person, and you worry about power supply current handling.
      coax stripper, you're a ham radio geek, and you know what RF is.

      if you don't have wire strippers, well then you're just a code geek, which i wouldn't trust with a hot iron on any day of the week.

      don't know what a wire stripper is...... get off this site.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 26 2014, @11:21PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 26 2014, @11:21PM (#7738)

        Of course I know what a wire stripper is!
        We had many of them in the 00s. They beat top-less strippers for us old fogs.
        Sadly, our company can't afford them anymore.
        Now, get off my lawn.

      • (Score: 1) by Ellis D. Tripp on Thursday February 27 2014, @12:29AM

        by Ellis D. Tripp (3416) on Thursday February 27 2014, @12:29AM (#7779)

        What if you have all 3 of those, plus a thermal tweezer stripper for working with Teflon or Kapton insulated wire?

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      • (Score: 1) by dargaud on Thursday February 27 2014, @10:57AM

        by dargaud (364) on Thursday February 27 2014, @10:57AM (#7979)

        I have a Swiss Army Knife, I can strip anything !

      • (Score: 1) by Kymation on Thursday February 27 2014, @08:05PM

        by Kymation (1047) on Thursday February 27 2014, @08:05PM (#8167)

        10-18 GA for electrical work.
        16-22 GA for electronics.
        18-24 GA specialty blades for Teflon/etc.
        26, 28, and 30 GA for wire wrap (and the Gardner-Denver wire wrap gun, of course.)
        Several cheap strippers in various tool bags and toolboxes, just so I have one handy.

        And I write code, too. So what does that make me? No, wait, don't answer that.