It means "a male working in tech who I don't like"

The first part is important to signal that you aren't just trying to find people to work with, but that you also want to join up in a culture war, and a culture war requires promoting ideas to hate instead of letting them fade away.

Imagine how it would look if they wrote "no pushovers or girly-girls, please"

This breaks the HN guidelines, which ask:

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize.

Avoiding plummets into flamewar is why we have that guideline, so please follow it, as you should follow all the guidelines at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

There is high-quality current literature today, and there was low-quality literature then.

This may be because there is so much low quality stuff everywhere while only the good and high quality ones survived from the past (Survival of the fittest I guess). So the past looks like it was all good but the present is mostly rubbish.

Counterpoint comic: https://xkcd.com/224/

We also have virus botnets

Right-handed privilege.

But still, the thumbs are probably the least "handed" element of the body. I mix right and left thumb use based on whatever I need to be doing with my other hand.

The people who respond to sales tactics are the sort of people who buy lattes every day, fo rhte same reason.

Buying new saves on the transaction costs of the resale through a dealer and the risk of buying private used.

Buying non-luxury cars is NOT expensive. Throwing away a working car is expensive.

If you're good enough to act on Broadway, you're good enough to be a salesperson.

What does private companies' compensation plans have to do with the government or Republicans?