Not sure about the conditions of employment with Google, but if he has archives of emails long after he's left the company, could a lawsuit be forthcoming?
Some of the shenanigans I've seen recently from MS employees in the .NET Core and JS space doesn't inspire me with confidence... For all of Nadella's "turning over a new leaf", it will still take a generation to change the culture of 120 000 employees
Hmmm I evaluated a lot of those (mainly OSM-based) geocoders recently. Unfortunately the quality of results is orders of magnitude worse than Google. The only ones that even came close were Mapbox, Mapquest and Here.
Find an industry that interests you. Focus on the delivery of your projects. There's more to finishing than just churning out code. You'll get the same reward you used get from hobby coding. Make the financial reward is a side benefit.
If you use data science libraries like numpy, pandas etc then these rely on OS level packages like libgfortran and liblapack. Anaconda is a way to guarantee you are running a known stack from dev machine through to production. This is the key benefit IMO (as well as getting improving deploy times)
Can we stop talking about Uncle Bob? He's like the old, weird, drunk, racist uncle at a wedding. His ideas haven't really been relevant for about 10 years, and he is increasingly posting ranty, politicised, attention-seeking diatribes...
Having grown up in Australia and lived my adult life in the UK and Switzerland, it is hard to argue with the result. The level of care in CH is outstanding, even at the basic level. The NHS is very good when it's good (eg. IMO emergency care), but can be equally chaotic and disorganised at times (often the "less important" community level care). Waiting times can be a problem. I also had a great experience with the healthcare in Australia while growing up, but I was lucky enough that my family could afford good private insurance that could fill in the gaps. I can't speak for what it's like now though, haven't lived there for over a decade. Overall probably a fair article.
The language itself is fine. Lots of good FP concepts. The mentality of the wider .NET community is close-minded and insular, lots of NIH syndrome, architecture astronauts and enterprise frameworks (even at small companies), which I think is borne mostly out of its corporate heritage. There are exceptions (the f# community for one, and the odd nuget project) but in the large that has been my experience. Even coming back to .NET this year after a few years away, I find not much has changed (despite the recent OSS "renaissance")