Ask HN: As a female coder have you ever been 'complimented' to be “like a man”?
I have worked with female coders. I never complemented that they are "like a man". I would always say good job or great code. I would go by ability not gender. If they had bad code, I'd tell them about it and see about debugging it if they couldn't figure out how to fix it.
So - are you a female coder?
No, just talking about female coders I worked with.
I noticed nobody was replying to your post. People don't want to talk about such things.