618 karma · joined April 7, 2011
The tech world is a meritocracy. If 'brogrammers' can live up to the standards then why shouldn't companies hire them? The question is will they make tons of sexist comments at work and make people uncomfortable? You have to hire a few and find out.
I live with 2 other roommates and I don't seem them much these days because I work at home during the day. I feel so quiet sometimes being at home all alone. It is interesting that I will never know how an introvert feels staying home alone. The opposite is true an introvert will never know how a social person feels staying at home all alone.
I would say he went over the top on describing SOMA. It is still dead.
I thin bug fixing builds a skill most people simply don't have, reading code. Reading other people's code is incredibly difficult and most people don't put the time and effort into it.
It does suck to get boxed into that kind of role. Where you are simply just reading code and changing a few characters per day. It is exciting get a clean sheet of paper and creating something new.
What are you doing with your time in the morning? Usually no one else is up and around. When I woke up early I found that I could always workout and never have to trade exercising with other activities in the evenings.