Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only

Re:Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only by joyeuse6701 on Saturday January 25, 2014 @01:02PM (#7121573)

It's a play on words. This oversensitive, over analytical take on sexuality is getting old. What would you have preferred, the hu-man pages? But that would be exclusionary to people in the industry who don't consider themselves human! <hyperbolic>What next, are you going to suggest that parents name their children gender neutral names so they don't have to chaff at it if they change gender?</hyperbolic> You can infer everything, from anything if you try.

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Re:Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only by gruseom on Saturday January 25, 2014 @01:21PM (#7121658)

A play on words is ok, as long as it's not a running joke that keeps coming up. That's distracting.

The key to the Unix joke name genre is that the jokes are encoded laconically into the name and only the name (e.g. "less") and then have the good taste to immediately expire. They don't get old because they don't overstay their welcome.

Edit: I reworded this to be less judgmental.

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Re:Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only by philh on Saturday January 25, 2014 @01:45PM (#7121770)

> It also clumsily fails to understand the genre it's trying to reproduce, the Unix joke name. Those jokes are encoded laconically into the name and only the name (e.g. "less") and then have the good taste to immediately expire. They don't get old because they don't overstay their welcome.

I'm confused. Is the bro thing showing up in this command apart from in the name?

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Re:Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only by gruseom on Saturday January 25, 2014 @01:49PM (#7121783)

I thought it did from reading the blog post. Is that wrong? If so, I'll delete my comment.

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Re:Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only by philh on Saturday January 25, 2014 @02:01PM (#7121841)

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.

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Re:Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only by gruseom on Saturday January 25, 2014 @02:07PM (#7121865)

You have a good point. I rewrote my comment to make fewer assumptions.

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Re:Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only by IbJacked on Saturday January 25, 2014 @02:44PM (#7122026)

I agree with you. People are imparting their own interpretation of the word. When I skimmed the web site, I didn't notice anything relating to the whole "brogrammer" thing.

Just because it starts with the same three letters doesn't mean anything. As already stated in many other comments, "bro" is also, and more commonly, used as a substitute for other colloquial words such as "man", "dude", "guys", and is frequently gender neutral.

These niggling complaints of offense where none was intended is indeed getting old. The author's intent is what actually matters, not how someone else interprets it. A reader gets to choose whether to be offended by a word or not, he doesn't get to choose the author's intent.

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Re:Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only by joyeuse6701 on Saturday January 25, 2014 @02:48PM (#7122043)

Just wrote something similar. I wholeheartedly agree. Context and Intent are everything when it comes to language.

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Re:Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only by presorted on Saturday January 25, 2014 @01:08PM (#7121597)

White privilege: unpacking the invisible knapsack

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=9I7ExPk-920C&oi=f...

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Re:Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only by presorted on Saturday January 25, 2014 @03:29PM (#7122249)

I don't have an objection. I'm not judgemental. I think that paper is very inspirational to think outside one's cultural conditioning.

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Re:Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only by Crake on Sunday January 26, 2014 @05:50AM (#7124711)

I think that paper is very inspirational to people who love to stereotype others based on race, especially in a judgmental manner.

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Re:Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only by okasaki on Saturday January 25, 2014 @02:29PM (#7121964)

Not everyone's from the US, bro.

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Re:Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only by knowtheory on Saturday January 25, 2014 @01:34PM (#7121723)

Actually why not?

Why not 'bot' pages?

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Re:Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only by joyeuse6701 on Saturday January 25, 2014 @02:19PM (#7121921)

Actually as I wrote it, I realized it wasn't that bad an idea. Hah!

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