Brogrammer
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A programmer who breaks the usual expectations of quiet nerdiness and opts instead for the usual trappings of a frat-boy: popped collars, bad beer, and calling everybody bro. Despised by everyone, especially other programmers.
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A semi-mythical creature that is a combination of a programmer and a fratboy. A brogrammer sips protein shakes and lift weights between coding sessions.
Brogrammers rarely exist in real life and like much satire it is easily misunderstood by those who are not in on the joke. -
Pejorative adjective for computer programmers or others with a technical skill-set that adhere to a bro or cool culture, often obnoxiously so.
This phenomenon arose circa 2010 when the proliferation of popular tech-themed movies such as 21, The Social Network, and Iron Man and tech-celebrities such as Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg glamorized technical skills. As such those who often grew up as socially repressed outcasts or nerds due to their academic or technical aptitude and social ineptitude now found themselves in socially desirable class of society. This incited a once repressed demographic to become much more socially active despite social cluelessness, resulting in an obnoxious culture that tends to mimic stereotypical jock, bro, or cool culture in combination with the egotism, insensitivity, and terrible humor of nerd culture. -
Brogrammer, noun., a bro who somehow learned to program, but would deny it in any social situation. A brogrammer does not have side projects and usually programs while listening to Dave Matthews Band, much to the irritation of his fellow programmers.
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A popular, cool, or otherwise normal person who has become intrigued by the fun of programming. Usually unliked by the nerdy programmers for getting all of the friends and the girls, while creating cool and useful applications.
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Alternate, less common usage: one of the subjects of a friendship between two programmers.
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