It's always less exciting to hear that there isn't a problem somewhere than that there is, I guess. Sorry you weren't entertained.

Honestly I was expecting a little more meat in the article, and it turned out not to be primarily an article.

On the other hand, I'd love to work with female programmers more. The one I had the pleasure to work with had good insight, took care of legacy code like only a mother can, and documented every wtf line tenfold.

There might be tasks men are genetically more suited to, but women could also bring a lot to the table.

That is the most back-handed set of compliments I've seen in a while - you're doing a great job of entrenching the "HN is irredeemably sexist" image so many people already have.

This is one person who states his opinion, saying that "HN is irredeemably sexist" because of one person is irredeemably stupid.

> There might be tasks men are genetically more suited to, but

I'm sure that was intended as praise, but it falls short. Astonishingly far short.

Did you just characterize documentation as women's work? Not every woman developer wants to maintain your legacy code while you go off and write features...

there are jobs where men are genetically more suited for but we don't have to hunt bare hands anymore so it's not a big problem nowadays

There may be things that the average man is a bit better at than the average woman and vice versa, but individual variation is much larger than this.

A decent coder is far from the competency profile of an average person of their gender anyway, so that average is not even relevant.

I believe this is what's now called "Peggy Olsoning."