Jean Hsu, a software engineer, writes about starting a tech career, learning to code, hiring, and being a woman in engineering.
HN commenters link her posts on choosing between a startup and a big company after graduation and on the experience of female software engineers.
> The HTML rendering engine in your browser actually consolidates each block of white space into a single visible space character.
I don't believe that's true when the browser decides to break the line between the two spaces -- see: http://i.imgur.com/MksV7.png (which I took from http://www.jeanhsu.com/?p=229)
So I guess you could argue that putting two spaces in HTML is strictly a negative: it does nothing, except when it makes things look worse. Even that being as it is, I'll never stop putting two spaces between sentences.
From the same author: http://www.jeanhsu.com/2011/02/28/the-benefits-of-being-a-female-software-engineer/
The odds are really freaking good, and only some of the goods are odd. Sure there are a bunch of socially awkward engineers, but because of the sheer scarcity of women in the field, if you are a single female you can have first pick of a lot of really nice available guys.
I thought the days were past when women only got jobs to find husbands, seems not!
I posted about this issue a week or so ago: http://www.jeanhsu.com/2011/05/19/startup-or-big-company-after-graduation/
A great point he makes is about friends and family (especially those not in silicon valley)--it's hard for them to understand why you would give up a stable job for uncertainty.
direct link to the post, instead of the page of the blog: http://www.jeanhsu.com/?p=242