As for me, I'm someone who's a geek and has been around geeks and/or hackers for ages. And you has read and seen most of the hacker folklore, from the dictionary, to Pirates of the Silicon Valley, to blogs to HN.
I also don't like the "all" qualifier you used. That can make any (otherwise totally valid) generalisation appear wrong.
A "stereotype" is not something that necessarily applies to ALL members of a group. It's just something that the statistical majority of some group holds.
(Or course it can also not hold at all. But the hackers I know at least, would agree it holds for hackers, especially the more absorbed and technical ones -- e.g think Torvalds and Wozniak not DHH or some random startup coder who does some front end work and is otherwise a total hipster).
Who's Paul Graham to stereotype hackers as socially awkward and blunt? http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html
Who's Miguel De Icaza to do it?http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/Feb-17.html
As for me, I'm someone who's a geek and has been around geeks and/or hackers for ages. And you has read and seen most of the hacker folklore, from the dictionary, to Pirates of the Silicon Valley, to blogs to HN.
I also don't like the "all" qualifier you used. That can make any (otherwise totally valid) generalisation appear wrong.
A "stereotype" is not something that necessarily applies to ALL members of a group. It's just something that the statistical majority of some group holds.
(Or course it can also not hold at all. But the hackers I know at least, would agree it holds for hackers, especially the more absorbed and technical ones -- e.g think Torvalds and Wozniak not DHH or some random startup coder who does some front end work and is otherwise a total hipster).