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The guy literally says he timeboxed his exploration on this experiment.

I think it's pretty cool and would love to have the option to navigate repositories like this.

Author is a woman.

Sex is irrelevant.

It’s generally considered polite to refer To people the way they want to be referred to. It’s relevant.

It's absolutely relevant and was my mistake. I would have corrected it if I had seen it in time – apologies to the author.

...for the HNers who love to talk about how sexism or implicit bias doesn't exist in tech...

Any people doing any automatic assuming likely also assumed the person is white, not homeless, well dressed, no mental health issues, and so on. It’s how things work. There’s so few people who actually feel the way you’re describing things.

Being sexist and having implicit biases is not the same thing.

The OP did apologize for getting the gender wrong so happy ending there.

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