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I used troll bait with this statement to actually show, in action, double standards on HN.
The OP made a generalisation for whole sex (men, masked as industry). I did the same but I got scrutiny where OP got praise. Get it?
Here's the kicker: I don't believe in both of these generalisations because me beliefs are formed on facts and data – both me and OP provided no such thing. We both just yelled statements.
I've met smart women in the tech industry. None of them would make a post like this (i.e. without any essence, just spitting out poison).
I've also met smart men. None of them would behave like men described by the OP.
On the other hand, my comment that you actually replied to is based on one of cognitive biases humans have.
It's dopamine. I see it as malware that infected my brainOS and it's more of a stuxnet rather than your typical lame click-n-infect-me.
As for diets, I prefer to set lifestyle goals. For example it doesn't matter on which particular diet I'm on at the moment (I cycle through couple of them every 8-12-16 weeks), what does matter is that I very rarely eat processed food or sugary snacks (once a month at best) and when I do it's _always_ after hard training session and it still _fits my macros_.
You can go to any Ruby meetup and you will see it's different than PHP meetup which both are quite different from Functional Programming meetups.
Thus I would say that it's not about the technology but about people whom you attract (i.e. culture).
I skip luck & timing, these are mostly random and one has very little power to influence them.
Wat? Your protein intake depends strictly on your body's requirements.