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To the OP: Brilliant product.
About the name: Brilliant marketing. Extreme hatred or disgust is better than indifference :) Enjoy all the PR. Those who find the this useful will care less about the name you give it.
Seems realistic - not everyone's internal clock matches with the 24 hour day. This guy let himself live on a 28 hour day, but the tradeoff was that instead of 7 chunked out pieces of living per week, he had 6. So when is the weekend? Still 2 days, or just 1 now? It presents an interesting set of problems.
"The Nazis were special" is totally the wrong lesson to take away from the horrors of WW2. "Never again" doesn't mean "this could never happen again", but rather "we will never let this happen again."

I have no problem with pointing out parallels between other events and things which, in the past, had horrible outcomes. Excessive and crippling war reparations are (rightly) avoided because of the example of the rise of the Nazis. (As well as unfairness to those who didn't directly take part). Central registries of minority or disfavored groups can be wisely opposed on the basis of what the Nazis and others did with those registries on coming into power; even today the German postal system has some protections lacking in the US system for that reason. Rwanda, rather than the just the Nazis, is a great example of the risks of a political incident either manufactured or exploited to wage wars (civil or of conquest) and trample on civil liberties (including right to life); 9/11 and the disproportionate and ineffective US domestic and international response might be a fresher example still.

It is the violence, combined with scale of the Seattle WTO through Occupy, which is potentially relevant here; the google bus incident is a sideshow, but in the same general category. It certainly isn't Germany 1938, but inequality creates the kind of precondition for violent change, on the right or left, that has been tragically exploited in the past.
I'm not trying to do anything malicious but intentions are irrelevant when it comes to truth. It's either right or wrong. If someone really had a good reason for believing in God I'd like to know about it. I am also interested in atheists who later turn to God because I don't comprehend how such a thing is possible unless they were never rigorous in their scepticism or had some kind of terrible psychological trauma. The latter is known to ruin minds. For example starvation makes people irrational about eating, war, giving birth, etc all have psychological effects that can't be reasoned away.

Anyway thanks for answering my questions. Enjoy your weekend.
Oh, I didn't see that there's 'bro thanks' and 'bro ...no' for voting. I wouldn't call that too much, but YMMV. I can't see anything else.
Interesting that nCube [1] was also mentioned in the article. I remember HRB Systems (here in State College PA - and later part of E-Systems, now Raytheon) bought nCube computers that were based on the HyperCube architecture. I was at C-COR in 2005 when we purchased nCube from Larry Ellison's holding company and added their VOD servers to our product family. Now that C-COR has been merged into ARRIS, the legacy of nCube lives on in that company's VOD/IA servers [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCUBE

[2] http://www.arrisi.com/products/product.asp?id=17
Fsck is funnier to a much wider group of people.

The whole bro humour is deliberately exclusionary, it is an in-joke for tying together small groups of (mostly) young males. That is what it is for.

This is also why it can work well in small groups, because in-jokes can help tie them together. However, as evidenced by this thread, a lot of people, many with well developed senses of humour, just don't find the whole bro shtick really all that amusing, and if trying to appeal to a wider audience it is wise when using humour in a public service, to use jokes that most people might find funny, otherwise nobody bothers discussing the actual product, but just complains that they don't like the name, then you get usurped by the first decent copy that has a name people like more.

Also, French Connection UK has had FCUK on every high street in Britain for years, so I think you might be onto a loser for shock value with fsck, it seems people are far more offended by social concepts than by biology these days.
Call them syspages (modified from suggestion from upthread).
Not to mention there's a show just called "Alphas"
What makes you think you have the right to learn about a proprietary architecture? Just because you bought the product doesn't mean NVIDIA has to tell you how it works.
If people are often reading sexist intent into your words maybe you ought to consider the possibility that the things you are writing are, in fact, sexist. Or be more careful.
First of all, that's hardly a bad thing about CoffeeScript. It's very consistent and is a tradeoff of not having to use var everywhere to define your variables.

If you want to complain about CoffeeScript, there are some much more fundamental issues. For example:

- I can write `foo.bar baz, bat` but if I call it with no arguments I have to use parens. `for.bar` will just return the function. I understand why it's the case, but it sucks.

- Syntax is so flexible that sometimes it still compiles when you make a mistake.
Actually, when I think of man pages I think about pompous neckbeards who get mad at plebians who are having a hard time understanding something rather than helping them with examples. So bro pages to me sound much more friendly; man pages that are aimed at the every day "bro".
No, it's not a joke.

When I was doing my PhD I realised I'd only finish if I got an average of 6 hours sleep every 24 hours. I don't work well on that amount of sleep - I always awake groggy, I'm always tired. Once or twice is OK, but not in the long run.

But that's 42 hours of sleep a week, so if I switched to 28 hour days I could sleep in 7 hour stretches. Although I'd become sleepy and groggy at the ends of the "days", I'd be sufficiently alert immediately after waking to be able to do real math thinking.

So I switched to 6 x 28 hour day weeks.

Later I only slept every other night. After 12 hours sleep I would be awake and fresh and able to do serious math. The second half of the wake period would be spent on mechanical tasks like type-setting (in TeX) and proof reading.

So no, it's not a joke. Yes, it was serious. And yes, it worked. I submitted on time.
US Patent & Trademark Statistics 2013 infographic [pdf]
It's a joke... I'm surprised at the lack of imagination from the four guys above.
They've got fairly aggressive automated systems for identifying and flagging material that's registered with rights-management agencies. It works for both individual tracks and material featured in mixes. I've even had my own music taken down preemptively before since the label had already registered the forthcoming track. I was able to fill out a form with some personal info and they put it back up pretty quickly, but it was still annoying (though I completely understand why they have it set up that way).

Not sure how other people are confounding the detection algorithms. They're even resilient to changes in pitch. As a result, a lot of DJs I know can no longer post mixes to soundcloud and have to use other means.
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Sure, it's a little exaggerated for television, but...

I dunno, I found it wasn't that far off from my own observations of SF startup culture, working at a startup myself in South Park. I think it's a hilarious show.

YMMV.
The author's intention matters when assigning blame. It doesn't matter if we're debating whether this is a good name to use from a marketing perspective.
For the first time in a very long time I can say that this valuation is very reasonable.
it means one thing and one thing only, and that thing also describes what it does, it probably isn't taken

http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=wheezy&arch=any&mode...
Could you elaborate those other reasons?
Yes I would. I know the difference looks small on paper, but I find the difference huge in day to day use. For example I can curl up on the sofa and comfortable use my 11" MBA cradle in one arm, I can't do that with the 13" MBP.
CoffeeScript doesn't always add var before assignments though, sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't, depending on the variables in outer scopes.

This has two assignments, but only one var in the compiled JS:

a = 1
-> a = 2

This has two vars:

-> a = 1
-> a = 2
Yes, combined with the fact that California has a low female population.
My guess would be that it is for the new iPad pro not a Macbook.
You have a good point. I rewrote my comment to make fewer assumptions.
So you want to manage a product?
so Comcast is going to be paying me for the use of my facilities to host its plant cool - just like if i have a telegraph pole on my land I get rent.
Yeah, man pages could go a long way in terms of providing some common use examples and more legible syntax to help out inexperienced users.

I like what "bro" pages are doing here in that regard, but the name is unfortunate enough to merit thinking about a change at this early stage of the project. I agree it is a pretty harmless pun on man pages, but considering that the tech industry is in a period of trying to overcome a lack of gender diversity, it could only help to avoid jokes like that come off as unfortunate or poorly thought out.
USG -> Weimar Republic is seeming like a pretty legitimate parallel in a lot of ways; ineffective, etc. More so in 2008; that the world economy seems to have mostly survived makes it much less of a risk, but if China imploded and/or 2008 repeated itself, I would be extra suspicious of someone promoting a State-led program of national renewal.
I don't know if he had kids or not ... but I have four and still would rather that they considered their father a hero than "that guy who wouldn't do anything". I have good life insurance because there are plenty of instant ways to go.
I understand the "it's complicated" thing. My best to you.
Or "ex" pages, from examples.
He was simply pointing out that the grandparent's communication style is a bit misleading. Nothing wrong with that.
I imagine that a 12" retina MBA will mean the death of the 13" MBP. I further imagine that Apple is perfectly OK with that.
No.

1) A big part of my point is that it doesn't matter what an author is thinking when it comes to discussing how others will react to it. I won't restate here my arguments on that topic.

2) We can safely say that the creator was thinking of brogramming. Aside from the fact it would be an astonishing coincidence, the original page uses as one of its examples "curl --header "X-GirlsAreBrosToo: 1" www.bropages.org". Calling this "bro" was not some sort of innocent accident.
It rarely happens.

And in this case I think it was blatant and aggressive straw-manning.

I simply have no patience for people being exclusionary that accuse me of being exclusionary.
It took a loooong time for my client to sync, but last night it finished and showed your transfer, and at least now I am assured it's working. Thanks again!
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Hi,

I have some idea for service which I have described here: http://www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk/threads/widget-for-online-stores-to-increase-trust-and-credibility.318767/

What do you think about it?

Regards,
Wiktor
Awesome idea. Shame about the humorless nature of this community.

To me, a "bro" is a dumb, fratboy version of a man, which makes the name hilariously perfect. If you're feeling oppressed and excluded by a command name, your real problems lie elsewhere.
Now, we're just being pedantic. I guess this is what we do on a lazy Saturday morning when we all just have to be offended and aghast at something.

I don't even know what you're talking about with "soul crushing it can be to see this kind of behavior in the workplace". What behavior? naming a tool "bro"? Are you serious?

I work with grown ups. Men and women of every age, background, and geography. They would take issue with cat-calls, gross innuendo, propositioning, and many other things. Not a single one of them would lose their shit over "bropages". You know, because we're all adults and have developed this sense of "things that matter" and "things that are trivial" and "things that don't even register".

Of course, this seems to be half the current content of HN. Every day, long diatribes about the horrors of sexism that restate the same old bullshit and gets everyone worked up with no further understanding or patience derived from them.
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Is it so obvious? I live far from the west coast, and the only reason I know the term "brogramming" at all is because I read HN and some other Silicon Valley-oriented blogs.

I am the only programmer I know at work or in my personal life that does so. The entire thing is a completely alien concept to me given what I've seen in real life. I hasten to say I absolutely do believe it's a real thing, just something I assume is centered around Silicon Valley.

The first thing I thought when I saw it was not "brogrammer." It is entirely plausible in my mind that the creator wasn't thinking of brogramming. Indeed, I could see myself or someone I know naming the tool that without any idea that brogramming was a thing.
"- I can write `foo.bar baz, bat` but if I call it with no arguments I have to use parens. `for.bar` will just return the function. I understand why it's the case, but it sucks."

Interestingly, if you write "do foo.bar" you don't need to use parens and it will work as expected. I think this is a bit more idiomatic.
women especially, who infer that on top of all the technically difficult stuff they'll have to learn to be CS types, they'll also have to deal with a constant barrage of "you're not our kind" flung at them by the in-group

The first part of your sentence sounded unintentionally demeaning, which seems antithetical to your cause.
I don't get your (or anyone's) qualm with the phrase 'bro'. As a foreigner that mainly knows American culture from TV, both 'bro' and 'man' are things hippies use in phrases.
It's almost amusing how well you captured everything I wanted to say. Kudos to you sir. Er...bro
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The fun of programming languages and open source software is, guess what, you can change it. You don't like it? Write an alias in your bashrc.

OSS authors are not held to a standard defined by all of you - they are welcome to express themselves however they want. For instance, my mother would find Brainfuck quite offensive. That doesn't mean the author should change the name.

I think the play on words is quite clever. I also think that if anyone is being marginalized, it is the "bro" - identifying the stereotype and calling out common the stereotypical language habits ("bro ...no").

And now for my personal opinion...
If you're worried about the cultural implications of the names of software (rather than things that ACTUALLY marginalize women, like lower average salaries, micro-aggression and objectification, and massive imbalance of gender in the hiring process), then I think you're probably never going to be happy with anything unless it's vanilla. The fine line between comedy and tragedy in the artistic side of programming is often misunderstood, so for now I'm going to go gem install bro.

As a second note, why don't we say things like Homebrew marginalizes the alcoholics or those addicted to coffee? Because that's silly, right? Right. Fight more important fights with the same vigor.
Yes. For a few reason:

- The train doors need to line up closely with the glass doors, for obvious reasons. Commuter trains in the US are not capable of stopping so precisely. Usually the trains would have to support some kind of computerized stop-assist in order to be precise enough to pull this off.

- Said stop-assist wouldn't just be a train feature, it would involve communication with the track, and therefore upgrades to the entire signaling system. Many systems have this "for free" by virtue of being built later. The actual track Caltrain runs on pre-dates Caltrain itself by a wide margin.

- You need to run a unified, homogeneous vehicle fleet so the doors are in the same places on all trains. This is the problem with safety doors in large legacy train systems (see: NYC, Chicago) where due to legacy factors there are many vastly different trains all running on the same track.

A lot of non-trivial problems where the only solution is vast capital spending.
No problems from UK with any of the four sites mentioned in OA or the https URL you posted; on Everything Everywhere/Orange ADSL over copper broadband.
The problem with your argument is that 'fsck' has nothing to do with 'fuck' and everything to do with 'File System ChecK'.

You're just further proving the OP's point.
Please do not link to the Geek Feminism Wiki. It is nothing but an incoherent and poorly organized collection of anecdotes.
The 'man' command is named that because its short for 'manual', it has nothing to do with 'men'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manual_pages
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You're getting downvoted, but I agree that we shouldn't be praising this kind of behavior out of context. The guy was unquestionably brave, had good intentions, but probably terrible judgement.
Try https://mediacru.sh instead of gfycat. It has a lot more features, and it's open source [1]. It's been around the HN block a few times [2][3].

Disclaimer: I made it with a friend and I'm baised.

[1] https://github.com/MediaCrush/MediaCrush

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6773039

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6189397
I'd prefer a 13" form factor personally, but I'd still be excited to upgrade from my trusted 2010 13 MBA. What a wonderful workhorse that has been so far!
So clang according to RMS is free as in freedom software that harms the free software movement because their unconcerned about freedom, rather than open source software that harms the free software movement because they are unconcerned about freedom.

I get you now, makes perfect sense.
Yeah, but that just means that those with mental illness -- hi, btw -- probably require more treatment than they've been getting.

A story. Up here in Vancouver, the police recently released a study showing that the thing we did in the nineties -- ending welfare and closing institutions for the severely mentally ill -- actually cost us vastly more, because the police ended up doubling as nurses/counsellors/social workers, and the additional training cost vastly more than the original division of labour.

What is the annual cost of leaving the hurt hanging?
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Yes, the name is goofy at best, but I'm guessing it was a play on "man" pages. I would have thought a small format "man" page would be a "boy" page, but that still has the gender connotation.

If you think about what a short format "manual" page would be, perhaps a "pamphlet" (pamp?) or "brochure" (bro) makes sense (tongue in cheek at the moment).

I was also sad to learn that I needed Ruby on my computers (I don't generally add it since I'm not qualified to secure it ... nothing wrong with the language other than my ignorance of it).
Example, with sound on:
http://home.comcast.net/~yugami/lean.html
I find your comment fascinating purely because it's a concept that I've never been able to understand. While I can begin to understand what you're saying about the loss he inflicted on his wife and family, the life he could have saved far outweighs that loss; as I said, I couldn't live my life any other way. I often try to wrap my head around the concept of putting myself and my family before my fellow man, but it's one that just doesn't come to me easily.
I find it most important to clearly define what your goals are. Then you just need to honestly evaluate which ideas best move you closer to those goals, including a reality check on if you can really accomplish the idea.
Brogrammers are not the in-group. They are an out-group - which is why this whole thread is about excluding them for various reasons.

You cannot have a decent argument before you realise you are being exclusionary to a group of people based on their dress sense and slang.

It's not right to assume that just because a guy wears shades they're a misogynist.

Perhaps the app could just have been called doc though and have skipped all of this.
Is the title really a reference to that strange psychosexual thing people have about alphas and betas, As and Bs? What is it referring to, in the context of the show?
My first guess upon seeing it was that it was poking fun at self-identified "brogrammer" hip trendy automation tools that just show you a few examples of a slick simple demo usage, and then leave you to dig through the source code to figure out the rest of the syntax and side effects, rather than even attempt to provide a comprehensive reference of any sort. "We're iterating too faaast for docs, man!"
Well, perhaps it's just difficult to understand it as a joke when you used the word "panini" all your life!
Liked it. Very intelligent way to utilize the spare bandwidth. One thing everyone forgets is that we are actually paying for the full-month bandwidth from Cable companies so they shouldn't worry if I use it 24 x 7 x 30 OR my neighbor. As long as there is mechanism to give priority to the owner when he demands the full bandwidth.
Name collisions aren't the worst things in the world, you can usually alias around them. ack vs ack-grep springs to mind
yessir! Glad you took the opportunity to read it =) +1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_matter_of_programming

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/S/SMOP.html

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SimpleMatterOfProgramming

http://everything2.com/title/Smop
How do you think I quoted the article if I didn't click through?

Of course I read it, but I'm not familiar with the author nor the company it says he founded.
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Im baised... I really like that expression and will start using it :D
Actually as I wrote it, I realized it wasn't that bad an idea. Hah!
I meant to suggest that between toronto's multiculturalism and Quebec's bilingualism we had a lot of early users who were multilingual. Sorry if that was unclear.
Good point; fixed. Thanks.
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1) Catering to every person's sensibilities is impractical. The whole argument about it being offensive comes from ignorance of word play, anyway. In that regard it is unjustified.

2) Of course it wasn't an accident. `man` is a shorthand for manual that led to plenty of jokes. `bro` serves a complementary function to `man`, and thus it humorously references its inspiration and sibling program using a diminutive.

Yet you also show ignorance of etymology. The term "bro" didn't originate with "brogramming", which is a very recent neologism and not widely known outside of hipster tech communities and feminist circles. "Bro" and "bromance" have been around for a long time. How does having a fake "X-GirlsAreBrosToo" header imply "brogramming"?
Or, GIMP?
"transfer of knowledge" being extremely hard when the requirements and projects have no structured documentation. Faster in short-term, but obviously creates technical debt in the long-term...
Great! 'man' usually is a good reference but one of the worst place to start.

One comment: the thing with voting takes _way_ to much space, and hence not that many things are visible. (Maybe a _single_ line would be better.) But the idea with feedback is great!