[altero]

Nothing against Jennifer, her stuff is impressive.

But I find this ridiculous. This is called learning and is done by thousandth/millions others. Everyone has to overcome their fear of being judged and stuff. Giving kudos just because of gender just undermines girls to take on harder challenges in future.

I started coding professionally when I was 17 not to starve, while overcoming depression and mental illness. My cousin started coding recently, he was born without hands! Nobody gives a shit because we are men.

[omegant]

For me is not interesting because is a woman, it´s interesting because she made public the process and what she did. That´s very useful to me because I want to learn, and also I want to be able to point somebody that asks me to an amazing example. Please tell your learning process if you think you may help someone due to your special situation.

[altero]

I think here website is impressive as bunch of simple puzzles. I teach programming as a hobby and I may actually use some of that stuff.

I have problem with comments here. Nobody offers any sort of constructive criticism. We should review source code and give her some advice. Perhaps recommend a new framework to use, or even completely new direction (NodeJS).

[thumbtackthief]

Who in the world cares that she is a woman? I have a wiener, and I certainly have not done anything so ambitious. You're the one making this about gender--everyone else just sees someone who set a challenging goal and accomplished it.

[altero]

- About half of the comments are about girls/gender/sexism and so on.

- Any sort of criticism is down-voted to hell, this never happens when author is a boy

- and finally show me similar toy project from boy, which would make into front page of Hacker News.

[thumbtackthief]

Ugh, now I'm all angry. Can you point to _one_ comment where someone gave her kudos based on her gender as opposed to her work? I just went through the entire page to see if you had any leg to stand on.

[altero]

Can you show me _one_ comment which actually recommends how to improve her skills? You know: " I noticed you are using ... but there is framework which does it better"... sort of stuff.

I think boys deserve bit more encouragement and girls deserve bit more honest constructive criticism.