Please keep ideological flamebait out of your comments here. The last thing we needed in this thread (ok, one of several last things we needed—but they're all tied for last place!) was yet another gender flamewar. You didn't need that to make your substantive point about competitiveness.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31262574 and marked it off topic.