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It's really nothing sophisticated. It's just stepping back once in a while and looking at what's not working, trying again while changing something small and noting what does work. Surely, you already do this at some level.

A really nice read. I'd also suggest treating one's life as a debugging session once in a while… A few choice `printf` insertions and re-running can sometimes make a world of difference. :)

In a world where Marie Curie managed to win Nobel prizes in both Chemistry and Physics, I'd say managing to be both a designer and a programmer isn't such a big deal.

If this is something of interest to you, aim a little higher.

Considering that I mentioned on multiple occasions that it's an iterative process, there's not much else I can say.

Throwaway sketches and thumbnailing are a hack for dealing with creative block. It's a pretty well-known technique.

It's definitely not meant to be prescriptive, and I hope not presented as such. What works for me might not work for you. Bonne chance.

It's not at all pointless. I for one am always glad to hear what works for others.

Before settling on a tablet, I considered the Wacom Inkling and even tried using the iPad and a few apps, but could never quite get the same level of precision as I can manage with a pencil. The tablet's just a stop gap, and keeps me from going crazy and loading up a boatload of sketching gear (psst… Copic pens). My Intuos 5 + Autodesk Sketchbook Pro combination gives me some degree of freedom without the clutter of gear I'd unavoidably end up with if I went shopping for stationery.

Perhaps the OP missed it, but there's http://pyvideo.org –which contains these and more.

I've been curating a list of people who balance both skills exceedingly well for quite a while on here: https://twitter.com/#!/micrypt/devigners/members. Suggestions are very much welcome.

A mild concern of mine with the "Google, if you’re listening" annotations. It's worth remembering that Chromium's an open-source project. If you really want something, send a patch.

"Ask a random twenty something what they want three years from now and you will mostly get a blank stare. This is not because of a lack of ambition, it’s because we have no faith in stability. The world has been pretty clear that it is not willing to provide any sort of stability; so we’ve learned to live without." - these words ring very true.

Akka & Ordasity have somewhat different goals and each takes a different approach. Apple/Oranges.

Because it's nothing like Scala?

$ epio upload -a appname. epio is epio for Django.

Works for me. Book acquired.

I'm in. How do we coordinate? http://convore.com perhaps?

Scala ticks all those boxes. http://www.scala-lang.org/

“Programmers should not be puzzle-minded… We would be much better served by clean, systematic minds, with a sense of elegance.” - Edsger W. Dijkstra

(http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=1787249&type=htm)

Nope. Quite odd. :)

One of my favourites is Hiroyuki Kojima's "Manga Guide to Calculus" (http://nostarch.com/mg_calculus.htm). It probably can't get much more informal and it's actually quite entertaining.

It somehow manages a decent balance of being fun without slipping into being trivial.

That doesn't quite sound right. The only premise I'd imagine in which it could be correct is to describe one as an "evolution" of the other.

While we can complain and fuss about incidents like this one, I doubt there's much to gain. I don't expect there'll be a significant change in public opinion till there is a sufficient number of positive stories to counterbalance the negativity.

Less than a decade ago, when most people thought about "China", the first thought that popped into their heads was probably "cheap counterfeit goods". It's clear that things have changed since then.

Until we have a balance of positive stories, I fear we're stuck with this. Time to get moving and add to the positive stories about Nigerians.

#2 - Perhaps a reasonable starting point would be improving the look of the project's documentation.

I actually do programming in Scala and I'd have to disagree. While there's the freedom to build a "type castle", you don't have to. For the most part Scala gets things right.

When you do need/want to get fancy with types, you get some of the best tools out there to do it.

I'm guessing everyone wants a personal Watson now.

Might as well include a few machine learning packages:

PyML: http://pyml.sourceforge.net/tutorial.html

Monte: http://montepython.sourceforge.net/ http://learning.cs.toronto.edu/~rfm/montepython/monte.pdf

Prior discussion - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1955387

+ extremely lightweight in comparison.

...only it's not TC.

It might not be your intent but your comment does sound a tad dismissive. Alibaba, Baidu and DangDang are, amongst others, considerably successful businesses. Perhaps their similarities to Western contemporaries are partly due to the fact that we are all human in the end and happen to have similar needs. However, they are remarkably innovative in their own contexts.

The Scala compiler's written in Scala.

What if Pownce hadn't sold and stayed open...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1156838 I asked a similar question a while back and got some great replies.