[Maascamp]

Wow. What garbage.

The premise of this book seems to be, "We need to stop people with different values from becoming developers (regardless of how skilled they are at actually writing code)." Really? This seems like a tech equivalent, "the immigrants are ruining this county" rant.

[paryshnikov]

Hey, author here.

Strange to me you'd come off thinking this. The premise of the book is that diversity and a better portrait of society as a whole (including everybody) in the making will result in better software.

I'd love for you to read it and see, it's free for the next two days on Amazon if you can spare a couple hours. There are a few HN cameos.

[nl]

Can you explain what the hell you think brogrammers are?

Someone who isn't a neckbeard who programs? Someone who wears good clothes? Someone who keeps fit?

All of those types of people have been around and programming for a long, long time. There were lots of "typical nerdy programmers" too, and guess what: there still are.

I think it might be useful to explain the central thesis of your book.

At the moment it seems to be written around a marketing strategy: make programmers mad, tell them to download the book while it is free, and hope it makes it towards the top of the Amazon best seller list when you start charging.

Good luck with that. Bro.

[asynchronous13]

> Strange to me you'd come off thinking this. The premise of the book is that diversity and a better portrait of society as a whole (including everybody) in the making will result in better software.

Really? There is no indication of that message on the landing page.

"A new crowd of jock-like developers has arrived, more likely to spend the wee hours of the morning at the club than writing code, turning workplaces toxic to others and dumbing down the world of computer science."

Not sure how "turning workplaces toxic" in the opening paragraph translates to "diversity results in better software".

[svantana]

I think the point is that typical bro-behavior is anti-diversity, which I think is true, what with phrases like "that's gay!" etc etc.

[purringmeow]

I don't get why you are trying to categorize people. There are all sorts of people in programming and that diversity is a great thing. Your whole book, at least judging by the excerpt, is an attempt to mock everyone who doesn't fit into your idea of a programmer.

[skj]

Given the theme of comments so far, it seems to be a presentation and communication issue rather than the reader being "strange".

[arzugula]

"Boo-hoo people with social skills and non-computer interests are invading my profession and making more money than me!"

[thinkmassive]

Anyone remember the 1983 movie Wargames? It opened computer culture up to a lot of people who weren't yet interested.

Maybe the author can explain how it's all been downhill since then.

[khaki54]

I got that same impression from the abstract, but after reading the article, I think the author abandoned that POV.