I find myself doing the same, despite increasing preference for &quot;she&quot; by academicians and journalists.<p>See the top post in another HN thread for my criticism, copied below.  When &quot;she&quot; becomes the default, I find myself veering off from the topic at hand to consider gender politics and try to infer the author&#x27;s intention.  Does OP see makers as &quot;us&quot; and managers as &quot;them&quot;?  Is OP using &quot;she&quot; because &#x2F;they&#x2F; believe managers are disproportionately male and so chooses a pronoun to prevent further exclusion?  An ideal grammar solution should not require the author to disclose his politics, either by omission or commission, just to communicate effectively.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10658187" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10658187</a><p>&quot;Manager time&quot; is a small allocation. Since the manager&#x27;s heap only uses blocks this size, she can do this all day without any problems or fragmentation.<p>&quot;Maker time&quot; is a large contiguous block. If the heap is empty, you can allocate them without any problem. But stick one manager-sized block in the middle and now you&#x27;ve split your heap such that the total time available is large enough, but it&#x27;s not contiguous. Classic heap fragmentation[2].