zlacker

Yeah, it's a concept/great project, but I agree that 'bro' just carries way too much negative connotations (even besides the gender politics, I think the idea of "brogrammers" is pretty divisive).

So here's a suggestion for a better/less controversial name that keeps some of the humor. Rename it:

dude

* Didactism Using Direct Examples - backronyms are awesome!

* dude gives the same jokey connotations/play off of man (hey man, hey dude), but with a an extra dash of totally sweet, whoa as well (duuude)

* Thanks to successive western->counterculture/stoner->surfer->skater usage, dude is much less gendered. It's also just way less polarizing since there's no direct connotations to any particular set/culture of programmers (you know, the fist-bumping, collar-popping, smirnoff ice pounding frat boys killing it with their new mobile app)

Just my 2-cents.

>>lhl+(OP)
Also a Big Lebowsky reference.