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My new year's reflection/retreat ritual is to tell myself "I really should learn real programming this year, beyond matlab", enthusiastically writing a hello-world program or working through some tutorial in a new language, and then giving up.
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Perhaps this year's false start will be this clojurescript thing everybody's raving about. I've never tried any flavor of Lisp
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Programming is the best. Definitely try going deeper. The test if you’ll ever really love programming: do you love debugging? (Analogy to write fast, edit to quality...)
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too much arbitrary detail to handle once you get out of sandbox environments like matlab... apis, weird protocols, compilation/environment crap, deployment toolchains... it feels like doing taxes, only 10x
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I had been able to pick up a programming language, solve my problem, Curse the language and run away for my entire life. Clojure is the only programming language I picked up and didn't want to put back down.. So you never know....
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