It's also a joke because girls definitely don't care about "Fast MPMC Queues with Bounded Waiting" at all. We can estimate the HN audience to be ≈95% male.
If you wanna be pedantic, the set of people who care about fast mpmc queues with bounded waiting is very very tiny across even the whole population of HN, let alone the broader populace. I would posit that <5% of HN even knows what mpmc queues are.
So of any statement of "<X broad group> just wanna have fast mpmc queues" should be obviously taken as a parody.
> I definitely know some girls who'd love this, and see this as having fun.
That's hard to believe. Then you should know at least an order of magnitude more "boys" who would love this: At an estimated 95% male ratio on HN, 20 times as many. If the "some girls" you "definitely" know are 3, then you would be expected to know about 3x20=60 males who are interested in "fast MPMC queues with bounded waiting", which sounds about equally hard to believe.
It's also a joke because girls definitely don't care about "Fast MPMC Queues with Bounded Waiting" at all. We can estimate the HN audience to be ≈95% male.
Hi, author of the blog post here, that was in fact not the joke. I'm a girl, I care. I just like playing off of that song's title.
No offense, but from the mentioned base rates (HN male to female ratio) I would be surprised if you were biologically female.
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If you wanna be pedantic, the set of people who care about fast mpmc queues with bounded waiting is very very tiny across even the whole population of HN, let alone the broader populace. I would posit that <5% of HN even knows what mpmc queues are.
So of any statement of "<X broad group> just wanna have fast mpmc queues" should be obviously taken as a parody.
At which point... why rail on this?
> the set of people who care about fast mpmc queues with bounded waiting is very very tiny across even the whole population of HN
Yes, but even of those who do care the vast majority will obviously be male.
All girls or most girls?
I definitely know some girls who'd love this, and see this as having fun.
> I definitely know some girls who'd love this, and see this as having fun.
That's hard to believe. Then you should know at least an order of magnitude more "boys" who would love this: At an estimated 95% male ratio on HN, 20 times as many. If the "some girls" you "definitely" know are 3, then you would be expected to know about 3x20=60 males who are interested in "fast MPMC queues with bounded waiting", which sounds about equally hard to believe.
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