The most productive time I've had has been hobbies that I enjoyed and was passionate about that involved human interaction. I'm an introvert by nature, and thus somewhat disinclined to socialize to the same extent as more extroverted people.
When I was younger, I was far from the best at interacting with people, but hobbies, and forums and groups surrounding them connected me to people who shared similar interests and helped me interact with them. Through shared passions and enjoyment, I developed better social skills, reduced anxiety, and built life long friendships and relationships.
you don't even have to go to non english, just utf-8 has stuff like mathematic spaces and spaces of different em sizes. http://perldoc.perl.org/perlrecharclass.html has a reasonably good list of non ascii spaces, though I'm not sure where to dig through for locale specific lists.
That said, while it may not be a solution for every case, it's a solution for the common case and a starting point for other cases, and thus pretty nifty and potentially useful.
21st century C programming, as I recall, will get you set up a dev environment with tooling, which can be hard for an entry level C programmer. It also covers useful tools and libraries.
It's also a fairly good C book in general, though I don't know that I'd want to try to learn a computer language from it.
Which is not the current owner's "fault", but not the tenant's either, which to me makes the fact that it was the supposed 'triggering event' rather unfair.
Seems something of a straw man argument. Women have been saying that this is an issue for a long time, across a number of companies and industries, which points to a systemic issue, not an individual's responsibility.
Is being conflict adverse inherently "dumb" though, when people's responses to it are gendered?
Or think of it this way, is the ability to negotiate aggressively that much of a value add to a company, and if so, is that worth more then the interpersonal skills that a less conflict prone person might have developed in areas like team work?
Correlation finding is still an incredibly important first step towards figuring out what would be a good double blind randomized trial. Science media could definitely report correlations better.
I feel like reviews really need an A/B test at the very least, because someone comparing and contrasting two products gives you an idea of the relative importance of different features.
When I was younger, I was far from the best at interacting with people, but hobbies, and forums and groups surrounding them connected me to people who shared similar interests and helped me interact with them. Through shared passions and enjoyment, I developed better social skills, reduced anxiety, and built life long friendships and relationships.