You are guilty for the same reason you are accusing others for giving her attention.
You don't think she's good enough because of it.
Seriously, the startup world and the Valley is such a male-dominated place. I would imagine it's not easy being a woman in this space.
There are so many blog posts from men who went to the top of Hacker News and some of them from people who have no experience delivering. I also haven't seen any of her posts here for a long time.
I'm not saying we cut her slack but let's hold her to the same standard we do for posts by men here on Hacker News.
That's exactly what the post you're replying to was suggesting.
Their point was that if any other (male) developer had made the exact same post, it would not have made it to the front page of HN.
There is hardly anything informative in this article that hasn't been said a million times over. EDIT: I shouldn't even be calling it an article.
Your idea that its hard being a woman in a male-dominated industry such as this...that's a whole other argument for another time.
In my case maybe I deserve a little of it for being an over the top marketer some of the time, but civil discourse evaporating here. the ad hominem stuff basically drives away the good people.
it will be sad if HN goes to the haters
People are quite ruthless with what they perceive as fluff blog posts from ANY source, and I'm not sure your generation's social mores regarding politeness or chivalry are necessarily the correct prescription for alleviating discrimination.
Your implication that women shouldn't be held to the same standard is inherently condescending.
Pocket Fun Games - would you have funded a MALE single founder in another country doing a FREE iPhone app? Not exactly a million-dollar idea, those free, ad-free iPhone apps.
It's not just throwing away your/Sequoia's money, it's that when you fail to hold female applicants to the same standard, the resulting failures add grist to the mill for the other side of the sexist argument, which presumably is the opposite effect from what you intend.
Because of this article, I now know about ASIHTTPRequest, which is very likely going to find its way into my iPhone app in the near future as a result.
So I'd say it's a net win.
The problem is, often online if a woman steps into a geeky world, their comment/post/whatever is voted up into the stratosphere, by probably well meaning men who want to prove they're not sexist.
Judge stories/posts/comments on their merit. Not the identity of the author.
On the actual article - I would've found this interesting regardless of who wrote it (even though, yes, if it hadn't been by her I might not have seen it)
He did say "I just can't stand that people post the most minute things she does", which is a complaint aimed at HN (or other sites') posters, not at her.
I'd say the article isn't without interest, but I agree with the commenter that it's not really HN material: it's on a very specific programming problem, and it's not something that'll make you think or gain new insight. Compare to the Knuth submission. It'd rather call it 'stackoverflow answer' material.
Or you could complain.
Leah gets a lot of attention for the one obvious reason that doesn't need to be restated. That is why these articles are posted. This blog post doesn't contain any unique information that is presented any better than you could find elsewhere. She has not been involved in that many projects and few of them have gone very far. Pownce was probably her peak.
So I'm not trying to be negative or a nitpicker or anything else like that. I just can't stand that people post the most minute things she does. I remember Techcrunch posted an article the other day because she joined some other company and left SixApart.
There are so many developers and designers that are switching around every day and we barely hear about it aside from the big league players. The fact that Ms. Culver gets her own slice of attention for doing almost nothing of noteworthiness starts to wear on my patience is all.