n. (FO'-gram-mir) Someone who pretends to be a progammer, like someone who designs in HTML. Has no idea of flow control, object orientedprogramming, and doesn't understand when people call him a noob. Might have modified the permissions on a file once.
Yeah, MJ was such a fauxgrammer he drew a series of boxes, made a shitty flowchart, and called it an algorithm and had his intern actually write the code.
A politician, pundit or other political player that pretends to be progressive while actually supporting unprogressive/corporatist policies.
Barack Obama is a fauxgressive. He pretends to be progressive in his campaigning, but he rarely fights for progressive causes and consistently supports corporatist, unprogressive policies.
Dave: "Have you heard the new Black Eyed Peas song?"
Jim: "Rock your body?"
Dave: "Yeah, did you like it?"
Jim: "NO ITS SHIT! it tries to be electronica and fails, I call this sort of music Fauxtronica"
Describes a comment that is delivered as an insightful or profound piece of information, but is really just common sense or at least a silly oversimplification of a mainstream philosophical idea. It oftentimes applies to the musings of intelligent stoners.