1/ For the last 2 years, I've been doing a two-week 'coding vacation' in December. Could use some creative input for the 2016 iteration.
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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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build on what you learned last time. also: deployment is complicated. don’t feel bad.
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Mathematica and Matlab were my first two languages, so I sympathise. You can do it! Biggest lesson: struggling through setup/ ops probs
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