Sqoot Kills Own Hackathon with Sexist Perk

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The original sqoot post was comically riddled with spelling and grammar errors too. Who are these people?

One of the co-founders has a long diatribe about how awesome it was to have dropped out of De Paul University.

Perhaps if he had stayed in school, he would have learned how not to be a misogynist, and maybe figured out how to spell as well.

Always interesting when people buy into the legend of themselves so thoroughly.

It took me a while to realize they weren't offering beer to women.

Yeah, my first reading was "we'll help you avoid the skeevy dudes who think you should sleep with them in exchange for beer" rather than "we're skeevy dudes who think you exist solely to get us beer"

Hey, I'm one of the co-founders of Sqoot. We're a small startup trying to do big things. Sometimes we trip and fall. This is one of those times. In hindsight, our language was reckless & immature. Please accept our apology & help us turn this negative into a positive.

http://blog.sqoot.com/we-can-do-better-an-apology-from-sqoot

This wasn't a language issue.

Heroku and Apigee have already tweeted that they have pulled their sponsorships

"While we thought this was a fun, harmless comment poking fun ..."

"Poking fun". Ha ha. That sounds like more brogrammer code to me. Probably RASCAL.

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