{"id":46381,"date":"2012-10-24T15:28:23","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T13:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=46381"},"modified":"2012-10-24T16:08:37","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T14:08:37","slug":"female-programmer-seeks-boyfriend-on-coding-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/46381-female-programmer-seeks-boyfriend-on-coding-website","title":{"rendered":"Female programmer seeks boyfriend on coding website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most people looking for love try obvious places like bars, coffee shops, and the queue at the Pick &#8216;N Pay boozer, but one lonely lady programmer in Japan is trying her luck on social coding website, GitHub.<\/p>\n<p>Noriko Higashi is a 30-something living and working in Tokyo, but &#8220;having spent one too many years not interacting with the opposite sex, I began to feel like I would never find a partner, and so it is with a sense of urgency that I&#8217;ve decided to invite people to contact me here&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently she&#8217;s never heard of regular online dating or something. Or bars, coffee shops, and liquor store queues, for that matter.<\/p>\n<p>Being the sort of person who is accustomed to writing lines of instructions to get anything done, <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/norinori2222\/boyfriend_require\/blob\/master\/README-en.md\" target=\"_blank\">her ad<\/a> has a long list of partner preferences, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Someone who writes beautiful code\u2013it makes me cry tears of joy (Required)<\/li>\n<li>Someone who maintains their own server (Required, Linux preferred)<\/li>\n<li>Someone who will let me help them maintain their own server (Required)<\/li>\n<li>Someone with public repos on Github (Required)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ll bet she totally wants to meet up for some Java, C your Python, and keep things BASIC, amirite. <em>AMIRITE<\/em>?! Okay, I&#8217;ll stop.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/betabeat.com\/2012\/10\/woman-posts-boyfriend-request-on-github-looking-for-someone-who-maintains-their-own-server\/\" target=\"_blank\">BetaBeat<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/46121-league-of-legends-player-caught-playing-solo-during-livestreamed-game.html\">League of Legends player caught \u201cplaying solo\u201d during livestreamed game<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/44874-uk-dating-site-gives-dating-tips-for-gamers.html\">UK dating site gives dating tips for gamers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/42203-creepy-guy-declares-his-love-for-booth-babe-with-bouquet-of-cash.html\">Creepy guy declares his love for booth babe with bouquet of cash<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/44515-gabe-newell-pillow-will-watch-you-sleep.html\">Gabe Newell pillow will watch you sleep<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for somebody to make her SQL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":46385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,1125,481,5593,1841],"class_list":["post-46381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-dating","tag-love","tag-omg","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46402,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46381\/revisions\/46402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}