When you're just coding away in some Coffee Shop and some random guy/girl asks you

"are you trying to hack the wifi" smh

Good way to break the ice :D

@barawww You wouldn't go to a mechanic and ask if they're building an engine from scratch.

Don't do that to a computer scientist. Lol

@jhh2450 exactly!

@savethecode @barawww The way you break the ice in that situation by asking "Hey that looks really cool! What are you doing? Can you tell me more?"

That's what I do all day, every day

@jhh2450
Agreed. It would be more appropriate. But that would be a good time to educate the person on what you do no?

The same in school, I was just practising html and css, suddenly the girl next to me asks me if Im hacking, Reeeeee!!!!!

Damn you hackers haha 😀

@Letmecode I was suppose to comment but you got it first.

@code4life welcome to devRant!

In 1992 I rooted to the VAX system on a dumb terminal at the library (that was typically only used for the book catalog) so I could check my email. There was nothing to it because nobody cared about security then. The girl I was studying with was super impressed. "Wow! This is like that movie 'Sneakers' that just came out!"

Not wanting to lose out on that kind of cred with a young lady I might be persuaded to be interested in, I said, "Yessss. Yes it is."

This sounds like a great moment to quote Gilfoyle in the episode where Jared interviews him.