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If "brogrammer" is a thing, this picture is next to its definition in the dictionary: http://hackingdistributed.com/images/egs-small.jpg

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Why, because he's wearing sunglasses? Color of his shirt? He has short hair? Is near water? Which is the trigger?

The Oakleys, the beach, the looking off to the side. It's not any one thing, it's the totality of the circumstances.

For the record: not Oakleys, not at a beach, but yes, looking to the side.

If we're done picking on looks and personal issues, something I tried to avoid very carefully in the article, perhaps we can focus on content and ideas?

Not picking on anybody. From your pic you look like a brogrammer who codes by day, and slays on the LES bar circuit by night.

Or am I missing the sense in which we're using "bro" here?

> From your pic you look like a brogrammer

> Or am I missing the sense in which we're using "bro" here?

I'll bite. You are completely missing the sense of brogrammer. Brogrammer refers to behavior and attitude and not looks or activities.

I think looks and activities is inextricable with "bro"-ness. You're not slaying the LES bar circuit unless you have a certain look along with a certain behavior and attitude.

I feel sad for anyone that has to experience an interview session with you, if such an event happens, because you clearly have no issue with guessing a person's life and behavior from one small photo that you are seeing out of context. Even though the person in question stated that you are in fact wrong in almost every way of what you think you see in the picture. In fact, I'm sensing a small bit of projection in this because your statements make no real sense at this point, so you appear to be lashing out at a stranger for no apparent reason. Perhaps jealousy?

Yes.

Please post a small photo of you in a somewhat generic setting that I don't know the story behind so that I too can play the game of guessing a person's life experiences and attitude based on that one small example.

It's funny I had him as a professor, and it must be him, but I don't remember him looking anything like that picture.

It's funny what a few days of teaching Operating Systems will do to a man.

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