Why are people so angry? It seems like these guys are mostly just acting silly. I don't think it's particularly interesting or funny or whatever, but that's no reason to be mad at them.
Call yourself a 'brogrammer'? Then get the hell away from me.
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#12This is nothing new, back in ~2004 when I was at university for CS there were plenty of students who were desperate to shed the "nerdy" image and would compensate taking up macho hobbies like bodybuilding , playing metal music, martial arts or motorcycling or by drinking large amounts and getting high every weekend. The whole brogrammer meme reminds me a lot of DHH. Whenever you see him speak he is always dressed and…
Is there really a problem with nerds being groomed well and fashionably dressed? The people they describe are off-putting because of their attitude, not because their appearance clashes with the archetypal image of a nerd.
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#13I actually have "Polyglot Brogrammer" as my headline on LinkedIn in the hope that recruiters leave me alone. It hasn't worked.
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#14Pretty sure the entire brogrammer meme was meant tongue-in-cheek, and humor aimed directly at developers. Besides, anyone who might actually carry on in brogrammer style would soon learn the acronym CLM -- career limiting maneuver.
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#15Huh, I had thought the "brogrammer" thing was a parody, not a serious self-description. I usually run across variants of the descriptor "bro-ish" as derogatory, not something people actually want to call themselves; for example, "brostep" is a derogatory term for a subgenre of dubstep that dubstep purists don't like, not something people proudly call their own music. But I'm admittedly totally out of this particular…
I thought so too, but the word I hear from people I know at Facebook (where the term originated) indicate that the people who started this are pretty dead serious about the concept.
Thankfully I work with no brogrammers - this might actually start being a hiring disadvantage if companies are known to be brogrammer-heavy.
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#16Why are people so angry? It seems like these guys are mostly just acting silly. I don't think it's particularly interesting or funny or whatever, but that's no reason to be mad at them.
I'd be very sad if that loud minority made it so that non-technical people associate "programmer" with the image of a drunk frat boy.
That's not going to happen, of course, but I think people judge that this sort of guys give a bad image of the programmers, as a community.
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#17Pretty sure the entire brogrammer meme was meant tongue-in-cheek, and humor aimed directly at developers. Besides, anyone who might actually carry on in brogrammer style would soon learn the acronym CLM -- career limiting maneuver.
Agree. I don't see how you could take "brogramming" seriously, it's just a meme. At my company it's a running joke.
That said, if you do happen to meet someone who takes it seriously and lives that "life", then they're dumber than you think they are.
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#18This is nothing new, back in ~2004 when I was at university for CS there were plenty of students who were desperate to shed the "nerdy" image and would compensate taking up macho hobbies like bodybuilding , playing metal music, martial arts or motorcycling or by drinking large amounts and getting high every weekend. The whole brogrammer meme reminds me a lot of DHH. Whenever you see him speak he is always dressed and…
Hey now. Metal music and martial arts are time-honored hobbies for nerds.
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#19I think it was just a way of categorizing the non gaming non- awkward subculture of programmers. I played sports most of my life and i dont play rpg or any game other than sport games with friends. i would say i was the typical developer. Its just a way of identifying men than aren't a typical programmer i would think that women would welcome the change in a very stagnant geeky comp sci culture.
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#20I think it was just a way of categorizing the non gaming non- awkward subculture of programmers. I played sports most of my life and i dont play rpg or any game other than sport games with friends. i would say i was the typical developer. Its just a way of identifying men than aren't a typical programmer i would think that women would welcome the change in a very stagnant geeky comp sci culture.