[rammark]

Would you have started this if dmor was a man? No? Well then you're probably just being sexist and mean.

[lmm]

Pretty sure someone here would - look at the comments on any similar HN post from one of these blog personalities. Not everything has to be about sexism.

[berlinbrown]

It wasn't about sexism. It was more about the depressing, quasi-weird nature of the blog post. Death, retirement, our aging parents.

Who is really trying to tie the death of their parents into a technical blog?