"In the end when the serious stuff comes in it was always a better choice to hire someone who really understood what he was doing." - I know this is a side point, but it makes it very hard to engage with articles when their use of gender pronouns deliberately excludes you from being 'someone who understands what they are doing'. I understand that this is often accidental, but in 2019 I'd like to think people would be more careful about excluding a marginalised group in software.