2/ In 2014, 2-wk project was to get to hello world in a handful of production techs (got there with AWS, Digital Ocean, Heroku, js)
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3/ In 2015, I was still feeling burned by annoyance of prod techs, so I retreated to my Matlab playpen and wrote a fun "fake word generator"
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4/ This year, I have a couple of toy projects that currently live in Matlab but I'd like to take to real world.
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5/ One is a personality test. The other is a kinda toy 'psychohistory' simulator of world history.
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6/ So Q: how should the 2-week vacation (NOT full time, maybe 48h total) be structured so I get to production *including learning curve*
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Uh, what do you mean "structured"? You just code, interrupted by sleep, work and other nuisances.
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. In 2014, I ended up all 2 wks just trying to get to deployed 'hello world 'in RoR, Py, Node; failing to get anything off laptop
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That's why you have initial code templates - to get into whatever the idea comes along without being bogged down with setup grind.
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I think you have no idea how much you know/take for granted, and how little others know...
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Perhaps... I've been thinking for years on how to make an automatic programmer, found plenty of "trivial" things that are super hard.
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That's why the barrier between scientific computing and/or local machine computing and deployed, production code is so high

