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One thing I was shocked to realise is that breast cancer affects 1 in 7 (14%) of women worldwide. That's so high.

Yep. I wanted a job writing haskell. Got a job writing haskell. It was one of the worst jobs I ever hard (for non-haskell reasons). Team dynamics, culture, how good is a manager, how overengineered is a code base, how easy it is to feel valued and given responsibility. There's so many more important things than the language that now I actively don't care at all. Plus, I think these elitist programming languages attract more jerks so I'd rather avoid anything too niche and go for a Go job or something.

Sten is that you? Hi.

I'm reading this article while waiting for one of the two people with write access to run my db migration, as developers don't get write access to the database in this company. Is this common?

I don't know, as someone who grew up in a dysfunctional family, I feel like if your parents are not good parents you're basically screwed. You just have to wait until you're grown up and make that tech salary to pay your therapist for a long time.

If there is neglect or abuse at home, it doesn't matter if there's some mildly positive neighbours / aunts / church people, I think it's hard for that to make a real difference.

Hello, I'd like to ask how flexible are the working conditions? For example if someone were to have a bad night of sleep could they start later, take a break to go to the gym for a couple of hours, continue after that? Or is it like some other places where flexible means "as long as you're in from 10am to 5pm you can be flexible how much earlier you arrive" (I'm more interested in the London office) - thanks.

The UK has no property taxes while it has high income taxes therefore increasing the inequality.

Doing an undergraduate degree is not being in "physics academia". The author transitioned from graduation to getting a job. But good post regardless.

I am skeptical of people who make such statements. If he deeply regrets it, what exactly would he expect his children would do to improve his life? It's not the children's job to save the parents from their emotional loneliness and give their life meaning. Children grow up and are their own people. If he deeply regrets how his life turned out, he would probably be unhappy even if he had children, or worse inappropriately demanding, placing his needs on the children.

The unadjusted paygap is still caused by sexism.

Yes, there is both an adjusted and unadjusted gender pay gap.

How does the scoring work? Is it dependent on speed? Are you penalised for incorrect attempts? What time / timezone are the problems released?