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Avoid Brogrammers, rock stars, and anyone who advocates rails as the solution to the business problem at hand.

The good programmer asks questions first. The bad one runs off and builds stuff at a whim.

The good programmer gets stuff done. The bad programmer wastes time on the latest and greatest, bikesheds on whether they should rewrite everything in ruby today and go tomorrow.

Avoid the bad programmers.

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Why are brogrammers, rock stars, and rails users automatically "bad programmers"?

It's possible to drink like a fratboy on the weekend and crush code from M-F.

It's possible to drink like a fratboy on the weekend and crush code from M-F.

You know what this is? This is my new fuckin' REPL. You know what that means? I'm writin' some fuckin' code tonight.

FUCK YEAH BRO!

static_typed has a thing for bashing Ruby and Rails. I'm sure he/she is rewriting stuff in Python meanwhile. ;)

His username would suggest something like Go better.

True. But he/she has gone on about how he switched from Ruby to Python at some point in the past.

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