More words spilled over an invented trend.
Yup, CNN's having a conversation with itself.
In war for talent, 'brogrammers' will be losers
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#12 Tech start-ups founded by women are few and far between,
but they're highly attractive to female and male
candidates who don't want to join a boys' club.
I stumbled on these companies purely accidentally tho. I wish there was a list of companies that have a better-than-SV-average rate of women.
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#14> "Companies that are inclusive, like Facebook, have an advantage in recruiting talents, says Gina Trapani"
Didn't the whole brogrammer thing start at Facebook? (hint: yes).
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#15The article makes no sense: You may as well say "Racist cultures are useful because they show us who's racist." If the racism isn't there, neither are the racists*.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Precisely.
I've seen a sudden flurry of articles on the "broprogrammer" meme. I'm starting to wonder if this is a carefully choreographed hoax that the MSM has fallen for.
The media are the hoaxsters, as they are with most "trend" type stories. Find one example of something (rainbow parties, crazy diet "fads", etc) and you have the diversity that is natural with billions of people. Cast that as a trend, however, and suddenly it's something that everyone needs to be aware of and concerned with.
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#17Do brogrammers really exist, or at least exist in any number great enough to worry? I've been to many software engineering meetups and whatnot and I have yet to meet anyone I would call a brogrammer. This stereotype feels more like a joke that has taken on a life of its own and the media likes to write about it like it is a legitimate widespread phenomenon, kind of like they like to portray climate change deniers as an equally large contingent within the scientific community as those scientists who support climate change theories based on human impact.
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#18> "Companies that are inclusive, like Facebook, have an advantage in recruiting talents, says Gina Trapani" Didn't the whole brogrammer thing start at Facebook? (hint: yes).
Ooops. I hit down vote instead of up vote by accident. How do I undo it?
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#19> "Wanna bro down and crush some code?" What? Who would say that, ever? > San Francisco-based Klout Oh. Carry on then. "Brogrammers" are pretty hilarious though. I mean, aside from the utility of being a "warning, we're a company of homophobes and sexists" alert, I think that it started as a joke? Then, there were people that didn't realize it was a joke and started actually using it. I think that's pretty funny.
Am I missing some inside joke? what exactly is a brogrammer? :(
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Precisely.
I've seen a sudden flurry of articles on the "broprogrammer" meme. I'm starting to wonder if this is a carefully choreographed hoax that the MSM has fallen for.
You could speculate meaninglessly, or, you could actually try to find out the answer to your question.
In the case of Tasneem Raja, she was actually in Matt Van Horn's talk at SxSW, and was one of the folks pissed off enough to walk out of his talk (and explicitly says as much here: http://www.motherjones.com/media/2012/04/silicon-valley-brog... ).
Tasneem also talked with several of the badass developer folk who build FOSS tools for the news world at SxSW, who encouraged her to write about the phenomenon.
From that point, having been published in Mother Jones and gotten a good deal of traffic, other news outlets are going to pick up and start commenting on it.
This isn't a conspiracy, this is traction.