could you cut it on the Silicon Roundabout?

[dellzeqq]

Mods - this thread is in Informal Rides because folk here are really hip...........

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/quiz/2013/feb/01/cut-it-on-silicon-roundabout-quiz

Enjoy. I scored 'an Ashton'.

 

[Crackle]

I can't answer any of them.

 

[simon.r]

'You're an Alan (Shearer) You’re no luddite, you own the new iPhone… and just as soon as your niece shows you how to charge it up, you’re going to text your mates some “banter” about the footy.'

Sounds about right

My son took me to a restaurant near there not long ago (Shoreditch I think?) It was OK, but the burgers were expensive. I worry about him being corrupted by all those cockernee hep-cats.

 

[gaz]

Your results: You’re a Kim (Dotcom) You don’t trust code unless you’ve written it yourself, you’re so disruptive that every morning you overturn five business paradigms before you brush your teeth. You’re a human being ahead of your time, the question is: is the roundabout ready for you?

Is the roundabout ready for me?

 

[musa]

Alan here - I don't get it at all

 

[smokeysmoo]

'You're an Alan (Shearer) You’re no luddite, you own the new iPhone… and just as soon as your niece shows you how to charge it up, you’re going to text your mates some “banter” about the footy.

+1

 

[Mr Haematocrit]

Your results: You’re a Kim (Dotcom) You don’t trust code unless you’ve written it yourself, you’re so disruptive that every morning you overturn five business paradigms before you brush your teeth. You’re a human being ahead of your time, the question is: is the roundabout ready for you?

 

[ceepeebee]

Oh FFS
Your results: You’re a Mark (Zuckerberg) You write beautifully executed code and people reward you with lots of money and share options, and hey, what wrong with that? If it wasn’t for you and your pals, several Vietnamese restaurants, a groupset of fixed-gear bike shops and sundry Scandinavian “outerwear” companies would be in receivership. You are the Tech City economy.

 

[Dan B]

I do work on the silicon roundabout - or five minutes walk down city road from it, at least. I code Ruby in an agile fashion for a company that practices Lean methodology. But my fixie still has brakes

 

[Kies]

About right ....

Your results: You’re a Mark (Zuckerberg) You write beautifully executed code and people reward you with lots of money and share options, and hey, what wrong with that? If it wasn’t for you and your pals, several Vietnamese restaurants, a groupset of fixed-gear bike shops and sundry Scandinavian “outerwear” companies would be in receivership. You are the Tech City economy.

 

[subaqua]

an Alan apparently , but i hate the iphone work gave me . much prefer my blackberry.

 

[cyberknight]

Is the roundabout ready for me?

same as mine

 

[srw]

I do work on the silicon roundabout - or five minutes walk down city road from it, at least. I code Ruby in an agile fashion for a company that practices Lean methodology. But my fixie still has brakes

Agile is responsible for some of the greatest crimes against the English language I've come across in business. Which is saying something.

This quiz is something of a first for me in many years of taking Guardian online quizzes. I can usually approximate a reasonable answer to most questions. But not this time. I'm either so square I should switch to the Telegraph, or so square I'm too hip for Hoxton.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I've been cut up by buses on the Old St roundabout, and that's about as close as I get.

 

[mmmmartin]

Afraid to say I didn't even understand the questions. I mean, isn't code something to do with Bletchley Park and the war? I think I have been near this roundabout when I was on the way to a meeting at The Alpine Club* which is quite near. There are some BlackBerrys in the fridge, I might have them at lunch.


*A club of old farts who talk about the old days and which made the mistake of putting all its effort into buying an HQ about a hundred years ago, insead of concentrating o climbing. Very unlike The Climbers Club, which is full of young, vibrant climbers at the cutting edge of the possible, and of which, you will be unsurprised to hear, I am a member.