Sentence examples for geek project from inspiring English sources

Coding nerd Shawn Fanning overturned the music industry with Napster, a geek project extraordinaire.

Cyanogen Inc., the makers of an alternative Android ROM that last year raised $30 million (in two chunks) in VC funding, from Benchmark Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, to try to turn what has generally been a geek project into something with more mainstream appeal, has named an official hardware partner for its endeavour.

In the pantheon of geek projects there are few things as potent as the creation of an FTP server.

So there, coming into focus like the last merciless visions of a drowning science-fiction geek, are projected giant photographs of the Princess Leia action figure, the Princess Leia Pez dispenser, the soap bar, the shampoo bottle, the too-anatomically-correct porcelain figurine and — my goodness — the life-size Princess Leia sex doll.

As with many other geek maker projects, the web was invaluable.

For the truly dedicated geek, there were projects in pure computer science.

Mr Fadell is not some nobody tech geek to have deadbeat projects fobbed off on to, either.

The AT Project Manager will take part in Berkman Center "geek hours," learn the latest project management practices and tools, participate in brainstorming sessions and give feedback for Berkman developers working to create a new generation of academic digital tools.

None of the usual movie sites like imdb.com contain mentions for "Paper Hearts," a semisecret project starring the geek heartthrob Michael Cera, a veteran of the Judd Apatow-produced "Superbad" who also played hapless but eventually winning love interests in "Juno" and "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist".

That was basically a project for audio geeks, because pretty much anyone who knows breakbeats also messes around with audio software and knows what a waveform looks like.

The failed launch of the new health insurance e-commerce website, Healthcare.gov, came as a shock to political leaders that were too steeped in government shutdowns and the machinations of two-party infighting to understand how their hired geeks could flub a computer project.