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Re: Stop Brogramming

#2
If you have a long running sitcom, what you're saying on a weekly basis provides a frame of reference for jokes. The audience knows what to expect.

If you're adding a joke to a simple advert, there's absolutely no way you can predict the way something subversive will be received .. especially when the object of the joke is an under-represented key part of the audience.

Very silly mistake.

Re: Stop Brogramming

#8
This is proof that all you need to get up the front page on HN is a title that matches the current zeitgeist.

The article itself is terrible, making mountains out of molehills. I'm someone who'd never even be confused as a brogrammer, but someone explain to me what's negative about this "Drinking beer, lifting weights, picking up women, and kicking out a new JSON parser before dinner. ". That actually sounds like a damn good day in my book.

On top of its ridiculous hand wringing, the article is meandering and bizarrely attaches network TV and Louis C.K. to its thesis.

Forget brogrammers, this is the kind of reactionary, overly-P.C buzzkill I'd really hate to work with.

Re: Stop Brogramming

#9

Apology from Sqoot: http://blog.sqoot.com/ Seems they were trying to hard and it just backfired. The humor wasn't intended as a negative thing but it's good that they apologize to clear the air of uncertainty.

Exactly.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

The social awkwardness of their joke kinda shows the divergent nature of the "brogrammer".

Re: Stop Brogramming

#10
post #8

This is proof that all you need to get up the front page on HN is a title that matches the current zeitgeist. The article itself is terrible, making mountains out of molehills. I'm someone who'd never even be confused as a brogrammer, but someone explain to me what's negative about this "Drinking beer, lifting weights, picking up women, and kicking out a new JSON parser before dinner. ". That actually sounds like a d…

haha, all I could think while reading it was "what information is actually here" and came away with a headache
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