Sqoot Kills Own Hackathon with Sexist Perk

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by dmor • 14 years ago

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dmor• 14 years ago

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

gee_totes• 14 years ago

Link to relevant news article, for those looking for more context http://bostinno.com/2012/03/20/boston-api-jam-publishes-even...

dreadsword2• 14 years ago

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

tpsreport• 14 years ago

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.

dreadsword2• 14 years ago

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

recursive• 14 years ago

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

olliej• 14 years ago

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"

avand• 14 years ago

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

jamesbritt• 14 years ago

This wasn't a language issue.

farmer_ted• 14 years ago

"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.

Sqoot Kills Own Hackathon with Sexist Perk

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