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Good way to start the morning. Love me some loving code.

No one can predict what the landscape will look like in 5 - 10 years. My advice is to look at the tools being used in a field that interests you, and learn those. Technologies cycle in and out of popularity so you can never be sure what the 'next big thing' will be. But, it's never a waste of time if you learn something that you want to, and you'll be surprised at how often you'll find use cases for your new knowledge. Plus, from my experience, learning any new language/technology makes you better at what you already know - having a new perspective is a very valuable thing.

You're an iOS dev, so you're familiar with OOP. Why not learn a functional programming language like Erlang or Haskell? There's a lot of momentum behind FP right now, and both languages can solve problems in different ways than what you're probably used to.

Terrific post. This is exactly the type of individual I want to work with - someone who recognizes that they're in charge of their own advancement, and doesn't lay blame on any outside factors. As developers/builders/hackers we are ultimately responsible for our own success or failure.

Agreed. I just watched the kickstarter vid and this is exactly what I've been hoping for. Can't wait til I get one in my pedal board!

I like this - it made me chuckle :) Can I ask who you used to print the stickers?

Thanks kibwen for the link, and thanks steveklabnik for writing this. I've been interested in Rust and this looks like a nice way to get my feet wet.

I love Python, but skip this 'article'. It's poorly written and offers nothing to the reader.

Agreed. I was expecting a 2 year release window and thought I'd forget about this before it was released. Nice to know I can try it out right now :)

In the Wired video, the worm looks cool, albeit not something you'd want to run into.

The Daily Mail pics on the other hand are horrifying.

I've noticed a few more errors - is there a central place I can submit them?

Heads up - the link[1] where it says "If you need a refresher on Angular services, go through this video" leads to a video on filters, not services.

- [1] http://www.thinkster.io/pick/sFObNwt4rA/angularjs-built-in-f...

This looks very interesting, thanks for sharing. I especially like that you decided to go with a fantasy football app - can't say I've seen many tutorials do that ;) And last but not least, I like that you chose the MEAN stack, for no reason other than I am unfamiliar with it and have been meaning to look into it.

Agreed. Diving in to examples is the best way to learn. I'm usually wary of these "Learn X in Y minutes" posts, but this one is great - maybe due to Go's succinctness?

Thanks for sharing this video. It's been awhile since I checked out Ember, but this video would've been a great resource early on. I'm happy to see that it'll provide a high level glance of Ember to people deciding on a JS framework to use.

This looks great. My favorite resources are those that assume prior programming knowledge and aim to get the reader up to speed quickly with the specifics of the language, not programming in general. If anything, I think I'll start studying pattern matching :)

Thanks for the recommendations, all. Just got my copy delivered yesterday and I'm looking forward to digging into it.

Python. IMO, it's so well designed that you can gain a comfortable (albeit still beginner) grasp on it within 40 hours, especially if you have prior programming experience.

Thank you for sharing this. I've been very interested in building my own Gmail client the past few weeks, and this looks like a nice starting point.

I was about to buy PCI a few days ago, but was worried that the information may be out of date, considering it was published six years ago. Do you think most of the material is still pertinent?

Seconded. I'm looking for as much learning material on Docker as possible.

This is great news, congrats! I'm looking forward to coverage of additional languages, especially Python.

Very impressive - I'd love to have something that looked that damn cool. The wrap around screen kept making me think of infinity pools.

I can't wait for this. I have fond memories of reading the Calvin & Hobbes strips as a kid. 20 years later I still find myself flipping through the anthologies and appreciating just how well written and imaginative the strips are.

Interesting idea, and even better name.

Very nice. I was looking for something similar to this a couple of days ago. This will fit the bill nicely :)

Very cool. This is one of those things that makes me wonder "where can I use this next?" Even more impressive is that this is apparently a few years old.

Very nice. I'm writing a Python app where this would come in very handy. Can't wait to try it out.

I went into this thinking "This'll be an obvious example - one I'm sure I wouldn't make."

I was wrong, and now I know better. Thank you.

Subscribe to the Pycoder's weekly email list [1]. I love looking through the different libraries - you can certainly learn a lot from digging through source code.

I just found out about Neckbeard Republic [2] today - it looks to be similar to Railscasts. I haven't watched any of their stuff yet, but I plan to.

1 - http://pycoders.com/

2 - https://www.neckbeardrepublic.com/screencasts/

I'm using Flask with Flask-Restless for an API.