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It's a play on the classic pop hit song "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun"

by dmoy 2mo ago

cubefox 2mo ago
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.
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- periodjet 2mo ago
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- azeirah 2mo ago
  All girls or most girls? I definitely know some girls who'd love this, and see this as having fun.
  - cubefox 2mo ago
    > 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.
- nahla_nee 2mo ago
  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.
  - cubefox 2mo ago
    No offense, but from the mentioned base rates (HN male to female ratio) I would be surprised if you were biologically female.
    - nahla_nee 2mo ago
      You can't fathom the idea of women being smarter and more capable than you so you have to resort to shifting the goal post over and over. "No women would ever enjoy this", "No one actually knows a woman that would enjoy this", "Even if you know a woman I bet she's not a biological woman". Glancing over your post history I can see that it's nothing more than posting other people's work, which considering your miserable understanding of statistics, is a blessing that spares the world from having to bear your idiocy. I'm not going to be talked down to by some good-for-nothing man who has never created anything of value in his life. I'm not an HN user because this website sucks, I was informed that someone shared my post here by email so I went to check it out and remember why I don't use this site. You're a woman-repellent and this place is full of the likes of you, that's the reason you don't see many women here, and it's the same reason you don't see women in real life. In summary, since I know you can't handle too many words and summaries are all you read: Go fuck yourself.
- dmoy 2mo ago
  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?
  - cubefox 2mo ago
    > 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.
    - dmoy 2mo ago
      Sure, so what? If OP is a girl and is obviously writing an article about her own interests, what does it matter?

It's a play on the classic pop hit song "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun"

by dmoy 2mo ago

It's a play on the classic pop hit song "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun"

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.

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periodjet 2mo ago
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azeirah 2mo ago
All girls or most girls? I definitely know some girls who'd love this, and see this as having fun.
- cubefox 2mo ago
  > 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.
nahla_nee 2mo ago
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.
- cubefox 2mo ago
  No offense, but from the mentioned base rates (HN male to female ratio) I would be surprised if you were biologically female.
  - nahla_nee 2mo ago
    You can't fathom the idea of women being smarter and more capable than you so you have to resort to shifting the goal post over and over. "No women would ever enjoy this", "No one actually knows a woman that would enjoy this", "Even if you know a woman I bet she's not a biological woman". Glancing over your post history I can see that it's nothing more than posting other people's work, which considering your miserable understanding of statistics, is a blessing that spares the world from having to bear your idiocy. I'm not going to be talked down to by some good-for-nothing man who has never created anything of value in his life. I'm not an HN user because this website sucks, I was informed that someone shared my post here by email so I went to check it out and remember why I don't use this site. You're a woman-repellent and this place is full of the likes of you, that's the reason you don't see many women here, and it's the same reason you don't see women in real life. In summary, since I know you can't handle too many words and summaries are all you read: Go fuck yourself.
dmoy 2mo ago
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?
- cubefox 2mo ago
  > 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.
  - dmoy 2mo ago
    Sure, so what? If OP is a girl and is obviously writing an article about her own interests, what does it matter?