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I found this interesting because, this is a man who's left his job and went a little bit 'dark' because of a mentally-ill former colleague who got obsessed with him - how many women are out there who left jobs because of creeps or stalkers, and then went 'dark'?

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Appears to be written by a female named Heather - unless I'm missing something?

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I'm not following. Clearly the grandparent comment misconstrued the article as to have been written by a male, as did I. They are talking about the author.

For what it's worth the url and the author's handle threw me off. "harthrur", simply thought of someone named Arthur in their first name, not the last. I completely ignored the website's name as well it seems.

Hmm I'm guilty of the same mistake, seems like I read the metadata too quickly, where the author is mentioned as "harthur" and appears in the url as well as near the article's title and date, overlooking the blog's title itself where "Heather" appears. Somehow I read "harthur" as being a single word for a name derived from "arthur" (instead of, I now reckon, a concatenation of initial and last name), either as an online pseudonym or a spelling I didn't know about; and thus mistakenly inferred the author was a man.

Oh, the traps we can fall into.

...and a dozen HN readers rush off to register "harthur.com" :)

Me too indeed - I thought the first name was Arthur. That still makes the article interesting, as there's a tower of similar stories from women, very few from men.

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