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I find the "brogramming" thing fascinating because I've never actually met anyone that has called themselves "brogrammer" non-ironically or non-satirically. My best friend's cousin is from Long Island and he has cousins that call themselves "guidos" and intentionally live up to every Jersey Shore stereotype because they legitimately think it's cool. My experience is only anecdotal, but I've yet to meet anyone who has actually used "brogramming" as a serious label for themselves.

My own personal theory is that there are two collective phenomenon at play here:

1) There's a self-cyclical force here where some people think brogramming is a label some people use non-ironically, so there are things like marketing materials developed specifically for it, which by definition will be exclusionary and sexist. This material further spreads the idea that "brogrammers are real" and everyone gradually forgets that nobody is actually this ridiculous.

2) There is a fear among programmers that our wonderful merit-based community accepting of all genders, cultures, and creeds -- which it is, really -- is going to turn into Phi Delta Toolbag overnight. For a lot of us, myself included, we've never been one of the "cool kids" and found computers and technology a much better fit for our introverted personalities. And suddenly these pink popped-collared polo shirt sunglass-wearing monsters are going to take that away from us.

Anyway, I understand why the women at UPenn would be offended by the "brogrammer" term, sometimes you just don't want to be associated with a term even if it's satirical. But are there actual brogrammers out there being sexist, or is this an overblown issue?
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You know, I think I understand you better after rereading this a few times.

Do you have any suggestions on how to help people (men) understand these issues?

(That IS what the forum was supposed to be. Not a punishment.)
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>Would a google hangout with Dr. Ostrowski make a difference ?

Absolutely. An AMA wouldn't hurt, either. Also, sign me up for your newsletter. Email's in my profile.
I just want to second that. I work closely with Voxer (I'm at Joyent), and these guys are both very sharp and dealing with some very interesting problems. Add in the kicker that this is a commercially relevant problem (I am an avid Voxer user as well), and I don't know what else you could ask for in a startup. For whatever it's worth, I worked with Twitter in a similar fashion way back in the day [1], and I can say that Voxer is every bit as exciting and promising -- but with a much more technically talented team. If you're a whole-stack software engineer in San Francisco, you owe it to yourself to check these guys out!

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No.

I work on Search Quality at Google. We have a firewall between Search Quality and Ads. We don't answer to Ads. Revenue is just not my team's problem. We come into work every day and look at our search results and try to get the most relevant answers ranked as #1, #2, etc. I never think about the impact of my ranking improvements on ads. I've been personally involved in dozens of changes, and I've never once heard anyone argue for or against releasing a change because of ads.

I can understand why someone might be mistrustful because of the apparent incentive to sandbag the algorithmic results. But Google has the long-term view: if we can keep satisfying our users' needs, the revenue will follow.
LOL @ Phi Delta Toolbag.

So, here's the thing. I touched on this (but now I'm wishing I'd emphasized it more).

Brogramming is moving away from satire. There are actually people who want to be brogrammers, just like there are actually people who want to be guidos. Now, almost everyone I know is proud to NOT be a brogrammer (I think some people slyly enjoy the label, but that's another issue).

I would also challenge your idea that our community is accepting of everyone. I think we are in theory--certainly, we all want to be--but there's little things that happen. IMO, the stuff that's been surfacing this week has always been here. It's just people are getting called out on it now.

And, btw, thanks for such a thoughtful comment.
I thought this was a joke... I guess not.
I don't think there's a formal obligation except to the extent that one has common goals.

Here, my common goal with the OP is that everybody who wants to program for a living feel welcome to do so. As a well-off white male, there's very little people can say to offend me. (Which reminds me of Louis CK's great take on this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG4f9zR5yzY ) But that's not true for everybody, and I'd like to make sure that everybody feels welcome and safe in my office and in my field.

So whether or not I'm personally bothered by the brogrammer stuff, I think it's reasonable to honor the suggestion that it not be used in situations, like recruiting, that will make some people feel uncomfortable.
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It's a lot of stuff to read?

I voted you up.
Having all of these mirrors of their domain indexed certainly isn't helping W3schools from an SEO perspective.

It is highly unlikely that this was done intentionally, just wildcard subdomains set as many have already said.

Read the last few comments on the actual post for good laugh.
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People said that about keyboards, and many can type fine on a smartphone after a little practice. For a certain type of game, smartphones might be superior from the get-go (racing games, real time strategy games) compared to a standard XBox controller.

Over time, I think smartphones will do well as controllers because they are... smart. The true smartphone controller isn't a static set of 4 lettered buttons and a directional pad, it is a dynamic, themed controller that changes based on the type of game you're playing and what is happening in it, even incorporating part of the game into the controller itself.

Purists might tell you that the xbox controller is a HORRIBLE way to control a first person shooter compared to the mouse and keyboard setup on a PC. Didn't really stop Halo or Call of Duty, did it? Now imagine the ideal smartphone controller - cheaper than current offerings, customizable, dynamic. I can see it working.
Last mile delivery will eventually be a huge market for UAVs. Think beyond just tacos -- think about anything that people would pay a premium for to have it delivered to them. Out of milk? No problem. Need your prescription filled? Delivered to your GPS coordinates. Condom delivery? FedEx?

The technology is there. The regulations need to catch up.
I'm not sure I like the a priori nature assumed by the regulatory bodies. Why don't we legislate based on actual occurrences instead of just hypotheticals? I'm not sure why a law like this wouldn't work: "Any individual found to negligently operate a drone in a way that caused harm to persons or property will face jail time and fines".

Isn't that effectively the same as regulating the machine specifically, but without all of the overhead, corruption, and limitations on creativity, and wouldn't the law actually have the same effect if persons found to operate drones in an unsafe manner were actually prosecuted? Wouldn't the market only accept safe drones due to the possibility of jail time?

Just curious. Been kicking that line of thought around a lot as I've been in some creaky elevators recently.
I know this sounds trite and stupid, but I have a recurring fantasy of travelling back in time and using my modern knowledge to change history. My greatest [imagined] downfall has always been a lack of access to Wikipedia, and how to get around it. This solves my hypothetical problem perfectly.
It's like there should be a Poe's Law but for technology.
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I have to agree that this won't be very practical because you won't feel the buttons, and you'll have to look at the big screen most of the time.
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Just a question for CS graduates here, how many Math courses were required to major in CS?

When I was an undergraduate the bare minimum was:

- 2 algebra (number theory + linear algebra)

- 2 calculus (single variable)

- 2 statistics

- 1 logic

- 1 combinatorics (graph theory + enumeration)

There was no "Math for CS" course per say, there was just math you should know. And that was the bare minimum for a BCS, the BMath (CS) had even more. I myself struggled with those courses (mostly the "raw" math courses rather the CS-y ones) but I'm grateful now that I did them. Math and Computer Science are so intrinsically linked.
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Ah yes, the ol' "You're being negative by pointing out the negative thing I'm doing!" argument.

Anyone trying to point out a hurtful behavior is being positive. They're trying to help you not hurt other people. You telling someone they should be nicer when you're being a shitheel is a privileged behavior. "Sorry, but you're not being nice enough so I refuse to listen. I might be sexist, but you hurt my feelings by pointing it out!"

Grow up.
Did you pick Phi Delta Toolbag on purpose, or was it a random name you drummed up? Curious b/c I'm a member of Phi Delta Theta.
In case you missed it, in the original post, I included a link to a JSBin containing many of the subdomains:

http://jsbin.com/upamof/edit#html,live

Those are not accidental. No one types "www.jigsaw". That's intentionally affiliating the URL with the word "jigsaw" that comes from the W3's validator. Look at the other subdomains. Those can't be accidents. It's not a wildcard thing at all.
> As I see it, women are put off by “brogrammer” for two reasons. Some women would say that dichotomy of “programmer” and “frat bro” leaves women out altogether. If you’re not a nerdy boy or a brogrammer, where do you fit in? Others see the brogrammer meme as taking the most “masculine” aspects of the discipline and emphasizing them (think chugging Red Bull, pumping iron, eating steak and “getting” women). Is this really what we should be doing when women are already so underrepresented?

I think the author is misreading the entire "movement" by first assuming the false dichotomy she stated, that I've quoted above: that computer science is for the two exclusive groups of "nerdy boys" and "brogrammers". First, the entire meme is mostly satire making fun of bros. Because, hey, easy targets, right?

Second, whatever serious brogrammers there are isn't out of nerdy guys coming out of the woodwork and embracing a culture of bro-ing. I know and socialize with a fair number of self-proclaimed "bros". Whatever non-satire based brogrammers exist, they come from a realization on the part of the bros-who-formerly-did-not-program --- that programming is a useful skill. So a lot of bros who previously took Econ classes and lined up for the investment banking recruiting sessions are now learning how to program and spending more time in the CS department.

I don't think this is something to be "offended" by. If what you're offended by is bro-culture (and yes, I will be the first to say that there are sometimes troubling things about a frat-culture that sometimes objectifies women --- the "brogramming" session cited where recruiters were trumpeting the existence of naked women at parties _is_ offensive.), then decry those bros that _do_ do things that marginalize various groups. But there are plenty of bros who do nothing worse than consume copious amounts of alcohol on friday night, play games of beerpong late into the night, wear popped collars, get excessive tans and lift a lot of weights (which is how I've met most of my bro friends, seeing as I do find some of those activities pleasurable). It's not all Mike-The-Situation out here, and you can empirically verify this fact by walking down Walnut Street on a Friday Night as the frat parties are in session.

But as a computer scientist who has all too often seen too many groups excluded from this beautiful subject --- I'm mostly troubled by this blogpost --- as it is an attempt to marginalize a group of different people (bros) who seem to have taken to learning more computer science. I want more bros in computer science. more women, more goths, more emos, more whatever-stereotype you have in mind. And if they want to brogram, let them.
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Imagine your mail could be delivered to you like this?

Something tells me Amazon will run with this in 10 years and take USPS/Canada Post/etc out of business
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My point is that I think your "critical mass of women in tech" are offended by sexism, not brogramming. Brogramming isn't sexist in itself, as I tried to illustrate. Hiring based on the brogrammer meme is sexist discrimination, though.

I respect that they're offended, I just don't think you've targetted the source of offense precisely.
What it really looks like is one of the shitty "handheld videogames" your dick uncle gave you for Christmas instead of a GameBoy game. You know the ones, with predefined sprites in predefined positions that would sort of move around with the eventual refresh? The kind your Casio calculator outperformed? The kind you could find in the dollar stor for $6?

I love the idea, but I'm with you on the screen. I'd be willing to shell out more for something Kindle-like.
> People said that about keyboards, and many can type fine on a smartphone after a little practice.

Show me the study? I've seen anecdotal evidence at best, and even that was flimsy. Typing "fine" is one thing, but being productive day in and day out? No. Tactile feedback is too important.

> Didn't really stop Halo or Call of Duty, did it?

That's because the game developers aren't pitting console players against PC-gamers. The console players would get slaughtered.

I'm sorry, I love my touch screens, but tactile feedback provides so much.
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I think the US has actually done a reasonably good job of this with regards to various sorts of racism.

People today get that saying something obviously racist is wrong and don't do it very much. That isn't to say they still don't have those thoughts, but at the very least they don't get to spew obvious idiocy without getting called on it.

I agree that hasn't solved the problem, but I do think it has helped shrink the problem.
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Just quietly, I think you missed the joke. (Upvoting you to relieve any downvote damage because there are worse mistakes than being too informative!)
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This sounds like sci-fi but I think we're not far from being able to do this. I think the entire Postal system could be replaced with UAV's. Why deliver mail by hand when robots would clearly be better and could work 24/7 and not go crazy. Food delivery maybe doesn't have the profit margins to do it yet, but eventually it will.
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FAA, county health department, municipal regulations on restaurant delivery... Tacocopter is up against a nearly vertical hill of red tape, but the utterly fantastic thing is that we're having this conversation. It's happening, it's here, there's nothing even close to a legal framework for it yet, but this is just one new facet of a massive shift we're witnessing. Like the internet, drones and autonomous vehicles may have been born of the defense world, but they'll truly come of age in the civilian world.

This is just another little taster of the wild ride we're in for.
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Ah yes, this reminds me why I made QuietWrite. Except, QW is open to all: http://www.quietwrite.com
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Cool! Super small nitpick: There's a space missing in the alert that shows when you upvote/downvote without being logged in:

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Yes , two categories :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isomorphic_keyboard
These tackle the problem of how the normal piano layout requires different motor-memories for the same interval-patterns at different pitches .
Janko and Wicki-Hayden are examples , as is layout of the chromatic button accordion .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized_keyboard
These are designed to work for various other tunings than standard 12-tone tuning ; i think most of them map some pitch-space to a hexagonal grid .
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Thanks for the advice, We'll definitely work on making our guarantee more prominent.

I've been considering an AMA on Reddit, even though I actually had to quit the site three months ago to get to where we are. AMAs on HN are a little tricky as the commenting system is so...unique.

Either way, I'll add your email and keep you updated.
I suspect you'll get more downvotes for mentioning your "rule" than the original comment.
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The inverse square force is extremely common. Plus, I doubt you use the permittivity of free space constant and so on, rather just the inverse square property.
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The FAA has always operated more like a white-list rather than a black-list. By default, nothing is allowed to fly in the national airspace. Then, regulations are added to allow a specific vehicle or a specific class of vehicles. At the moment, UAVs have not been white-listed, hence they are not legal.
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It's a pretty obvious dark pattern.
I took this class last semester!

As a mechanical engineering major who is interesting in computer science I really enjoyed it (the Psets were a bit annoying sometimes though). The text is pretty easy to read too.
Nothing new here -- many people on HN routinely downvote comments like the above. It's almost like they don't want to acknowledge the issue or take responsibility for changing their behavior or something ...
That's a very good point about common goals. That's one thing almost all of us in this field can agree on. Once we can start there, it does follow that one's behavior should be as inclusive as possible.

There's also another dimension here: describing yourself as a brogrammer vs creating a brogrammer atmosphere. I don't think the term brogrammer itself is offensive such that it entails purging it from our lingo. It's when you create exclusionary groups with the term that creates the problem. Describing oneself as a brogrammer shouldn't be seen as offensive, as it's simply describing a mentality you have (perhaps as a joke, or maybe even seriously). So I disagree with the article that we should completely remove the term. It seems to mirror the effort I've seen talked about to make CS less "nerdy" to appeal to a wider audience (as if removing star wars posters from the CS lounge will attract more students). But using the term as a recruiting tool or to create a meetup centered around "brogrammer" themes shouldn't happen, as its needlessly exclusionary.
Not really. Would you have preferred a shirt that says HOGRAMMER? I just think "exclusivity" is a super weak argument against the term.

Clearly you feel strongly about this so maybe explore exactly what the problem is until you can articulate it in a more direct manner. There are most likely legitimate problems of sexism in CS, but BROGRAMMING is more sensational than important.
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I'm sorry that sexism in the tech industry doesn't interest you. But that isn't what the flag button is for. Some of us want to discuss the topic (that is very relevant to HN), it would be great if people could let us do so. If you don't want to read it, don't click it.
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It's much more interesting to try to actually learn enough about how things work that you could, theoretically, reconstruct some of them. Take gasoline, for example: could you work out how to refine oil by partial distillation? If you needed to measure the temperature, could you make a basic thermometer and calibrate it? Do you know how to make metals from ore? If you go back to before the bronze age, being able to mix copper and tin could be a big deal.

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