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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No, I hate programming. I only keep half-ass trying to get into it because it would allow me to do interesting things that I cannot afford to pay other people to do.
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This is the worst part of programming for sure. The best environment for avoiding this problem that lets you build actual production software is pure clientside browser JavaScript apps. No compiler, 100% cross platform. Main downside is v. quirky UX w CSS and DOM.
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heh that's like trading high state tax for high sales tax by :D
yeah, I've tried that strategy a bit, though misguidedly with raw js a few years ago instead of something that compiles to it
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