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I would say if you anticipate any sort of data science and machine learning potential in your application, then you should choose Django (Python) because you'll be in the home turf for this sort of work and you won't have to deal with language context switching... But this is a big if and may not be worth considering.

I love this walkthrough! I've been going through it except with the python 3 interpreter.

> It seems it's mostly the US having an issue in education costs.

Are the prices in the US not relative to the GDP per capita? $3k-$4k USD might be cheap in the US but that money means a lot more in different economies.

Dang it, I should've done that.. I don't post much...

Go into any Electrical Engineering department at any university and you'll find plenty of students with boxes filled with circuit boards and electronics.

Everybody who's played with electronics knows that stuff is brittle and needs to be protected carefully. One wire coming loose renders your entire work obsolete and unlike software, there's no debugger to tell you where you potentially screwed up...

Racial profiling and ignorance at it's finest.

Paypal owns Venmo (via the Braintree acquisition). How is this not cannibalizing on Venmo (whose primary existence is around sending money btwn friends)...?

"You’ll not be eaten by computers any more than folks were eaten by electricity 100 years ago."

Although I enjoyed the post and agree with a lot of it, I disagree with comparing coding skills to humans having access to electricity. In think coding today is like writing was 500 years ago.

In the past you would hire a literate person to read your documents, write you letters, and so forth. Today we hire programmers to help us get the most of our computers. I think reading and writing code will be the new way to make the most of computers in the future. It may not necessarily be through the coding tools and languages we have now.

Then again, I'm no Ray Kurzweil

I guess because I haven't been a regular blogger I haven't looked into getting a list of beta readers. Thanks for the advice!

Thanks! That was great feedback. I never really thought about that phrase beyond the surface level. I guess I'll just get writing!

I'm now going back to my daily writing routine that I've scantily kept up with. But I have some concerns. How does one improve their quality of writing when they are not at school? What I mean is, I can write, write, write and I know after a period of time I'll "better" than I was before. But without having people who scrutinize your work, who critique your grammar, and do all the things that teachers used to do for us in our school years, we might only be able to get so good before we plateau. Am I wrong about this? How do you know you're writing "correctly" if you don't have the feedback mechanism that we had in our schooling days -- aka grades, peer reviews, draft 1, draft 2, etc etc...

I plan on writing for myself and for my blog. But I also know believe that "Practice doesn't make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect".