Apple's Tim Cook isn't the only gay person in the IT village | Lindsey Fallow

geek world is social exclusion, somewhere to thrive. We are interested in how people are smart - do not sleep with

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Tim Cook, Apple chief hangs up the official "welcome gay people!" sign above the door of technology and industry - but the truth is they have never been welcome here. They love us! Well, actually, we are totally ambivalent. Because geek in the world, the normal rules of society has never been applied, for the simple reason that they make sense.

Geeks like

standards on all types of programming geeks (like me) who takes the world one line of code at a time. But we like the rules that are based on logic, or at least a kind of pragmatic interpretation of concrete results based on real-world experiences (known in the non-geek like common sense). There is no logical rule linking sexuality with the power to shape the world in the form of equations or solve a series of user actions. Therefore, it is not a factor. Noise. Safely ignore.

geeks for many well how the world is broken: the things that matter and things that can be ignored. We have less interest than the traditional non-geek in the allocation of value to factors uncorrelated. The important things are

really

important. For me, the prime numbers, the correct use of statistics and quotes, the direction of motion for the transfer of content, if the batteries are still evolving as a complete, no verbing their names, and not to make statements that are illogical or can not be sustained (once). I am deeply concerned about working with smart people that combines the flexibility and creativity with rigorous thought and attention to detail. I keep wanting to sleep.

• Yet my small business is three for three on the queer counter. A lesbian (me), a gay man and a woman asexual. It seems that gay men and women are over-represented in our industry in a way that can not simply be dismissed, we are silent, actively welcomed because the world of technology is full of people who experience social exclusion.

Some were too smart, some could not understand social norms about the conversation, but most of us spent our childhood and outside the group. My wife is a psychotherapist and said that everyone has a childhood experience of going outside the group, but when you are a child of eight, dressed in a deck of cards with questions of physics in the pocket , trust me, this is a different kind of "outside".

Those who were lucky enough, like John, who works with me, or Bill Gates himself, who is like minded people who also wanted to throw the dice or play with the mail. Most of us were a mixture of boredom, fear and frustration that we have in our own way to college or have failed in the technology industry, where we meet other people who were more socially inept, intellectually brilliant and even more of what we were. The ridicule has been replaced by collaboration.

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