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Maybe his blog post is old? checkout http://initializr.com/
You might consider trying to get one of your friends to help out for equity. I'm working on a project (unpaid, but ownership of part of it) with some friends at the moment. But we are all ok if it doesn't end up making money.
also, if this is jazz, use fingerstyle bass instead of a bow
(note: this is meant as constructive criticism to inspire improvement in the idea, not disparage it)
I, for one, didn't become a teacher because the pay is terrible, I make more annually my first year out of school (programmer) than most highschool teachers make anually.
It had nothing to do with gender, more to do with money.
Also, my mom is a highly advanced math teacher (teaches AP courses, grades AP tests etc), so I think she provides a good rolemodel for women and men who want to be good at math.
However, there are more females in medical school now than males, it's just a matter of time as the older generation retires.
Personally, I think there would be more doctors if it didn't cost $200k+ and 4 years to get a medical degree (compare the opportunity cost vs working as a software engineer for 4 years with only a bachelors).
My wife is in medical school, and there are more females in medical school now than males.
In order to change these kinds of things we need to move on from the past and look forward, and stop worrying about what color toys our children have.
Personally I think we need to overhaul what kind of education is valued. As in, encourage all kids to get STEM degrees, or alternatively become lawyers or doctors. Stop encouraging kids to go to university and major in english or philosophy or... any number of majors that lack hard math / science classes.
If we get kids to major in the right kinds of things in college, I think we can stem the current unemployment recent grads are feeling (nobody is looking to hire a liberal arts psychology major, except restaurants (waiters)).
However, this link is pretty up to date (3.5) http://www.borngeek.com/firefox/
and very detailed...
IIRC 4 year olds have a lot of free time (to practice etc...)
I happen to be working on a project to scratch my own itch. It's an iPhone application. I've been teaching myself flamenco guitar, which requires a specialized metronome (for counting the various rhythms).
I'm using titanium appcelerator to build the application, and it's about 50% done now (just UI work now, the functionality is there).
It's essentially a clone of beatvibe http://tivstudio.com/node/1
I am confident I will have this app submitted to the app store by end of november.
Here's the current code if anyone is interested, still very much a work in progress http://github.com/himmel/Flamenco-Metronome
I only started working on this in my off time about a week ago.
That takes the sensationalism out, and would've kept me from clicking (no interest in vim)