[kevrone]

+1 I've been coding professionally for 6 years and I am inspired by this.

To me this is not a story about programming or gender, it's a story about grit.

[samstave]

Gwit. Twue gwit ithz wut gathwers us here twoday.

[dang]

Sam, come on. No crap comments on HN, please.

(I edited this to make it less harsh.)

[pbhjpbhj]

It's not an especially crap comment, it's just a joke you didn't get. Jokes don't do well here admittedly.

[dang]

Ok, fair point. I thought it might help to make a public comment in this case because repeated private requests don't seem to have worked.

The jokes thing is a tricky one for HN. I love comedy and I love wit. I'm sure most of us do. But when you're optimizing for signal/noise ratio, as HN tries to, there are tradeoffs. On the whole, I think the community habit of downvoting most (not all) jokes is reasonable for what HN is trying to be.

[barking]

It's not a mean comment and it made me laugh, maybe it's my childish sense of humour

[davewasthere]

Or just an appreciation of the Princess Bride...