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Go's "pseudo-assembly" is not a plus. Everyone ends up learning both the architecture's assembly and the mapping to Go's pseudo-assembly which isn't actually portable because each architecture has architecture-specific features.

Honestly, not much. Mostly, it's reinforced my switch from programming.

I thought Latex was superior to Word in every way than I had a colleague that knew Word. Word if you learn it is just fine generating a ToC or autonumbering sections, figures, and tables.

In practice, Markdown is better than either for documentation that isn't printed. It's easier to edit, can be viewed with a plain text editor, and has a minimal learning curve.

Probably more important, with retention, are working conditions. If a company has a high turnover rate, women aren't going to stick around just because they're 20% instead of 10%.

BitWasp has had security bugs.

Guess I'm getting old. C used to be the language for game development.

I learned it from the book "Programming Linux Games" by Loki Software (remember them?).

The "real" author was a contractor--it's common to see app development contracted out on UpWork. I wouldn't read much into the wording since he's not a native English speaker.

Money

A nice read on the hubris of unsustainable development. Having grown up in area with fights (legal and physical) over water, the tragedy of the commons is all too frequent.

Desalination is not economical for agriculture. Crops like pomegranates, grapes, etc requires large amounts of cheap water.

Unlimited is more of a code word for none.

It's a way to be cheap. And honestly hiring through Upwork is a terrible idea.

The missing data point is how many Greeks have switched to vaping.

An equivalent (but more so) case was the Russian decline in life expectancy during the 90s for the same reasons.

Brings back memories of the flamewar when it was created https://blog.codinghorror.com/has-joel-spolsky-jumped-the-sh...

Uptalk https://youtube.com/watch?v=pPZMy_JWsOU

A male pelvis is more narrow than a female pelvis.

Every job I've had wanted to work me to the bone. I'd violate my personal ethics for stress-free work that'd pay my mortgage.

Just look at Miami in the 80s.

I'm in a suburb and had the seat stolen off a department store bike.

Fred Wilson's post is informative http://avc.com/2013/02/venture-capital-returns/

It's possible to switch careers. Medicine was appealing to me.

I'm not aware of any widely used product (os, browser, ide, ...) that was developed with agile.

FWIW, it worked for my RSI with semi-crippling pain when typing.

The way to do remote is contract work. If the contract works out they can offer to hire. I've never successfully landed a fulltime remote job besides contract work.

Title should be "Linux Graphics Demystified (2014)"

Contracting can be a backdoor to remote work. If you're specialized it's not too difficult to find companies that need help. There's more risk (no benefits, no steady income).

The third possibility is men aren't sexually attracted to older women.

I actually did this for a guy on upwork. It was fun, but not a sustainable business. Security audits are where there's money.

Step 1, for success, is moving away from the Bay Area.